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Guest host Alex Guye speaks with Jess Wilton and Meredith J Batt. Find the article they co-wrote here -- activehistory.ca/blog/2025/02/20/a-queer-road-trip-through-atlantic-canada

First broadcast on February 29, 2024: Irshad Manji, author of the #1 bestseller "The Trouble With Islam Today: A Muslim's Call for Reform in Her Faith," tells Jeff Douglas about some of the things she's learned since it came out in 2004.

Elamin speaks with guest host Alex Guye ahead of an event at the Halifax Central Library.

Chris Harvey-Clark, a university veterinarian at Dalhousie University, tells guest host Alex Guye what was involved in preparing a blue whale skeleton for permanent display in the Steele Auditorium, on the Dal campus in Halifax.

Duff Conacher speaks with guest host Vernon Ramesar about an application filed in a provincial court in Ottawa on February 19th in an attempt to hold Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accountable for "...pressuring, and directing others to pressure, then-Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould to stop the prosecution of SNC-Lavalin in 2018..."

Guest host Alex Guye speaks with Asa Kachan, Chief Librarian & CEO of Halifax Public Libraries, and Kaya Fraser, the Manager of Program Design.

Guest host Alex Guye asks independent defence analyst Ken Hansen how much Canada should worry about Trump's efforts to pull the US away from its traditional allies, and towards Russia. And they listen to a minute of US Vice President JD Vance scolding Europeans at a security conference in Munich.

Barbara Emodi, Michelle Coffin, and Chris Lydon speak with guest host Alex Guye.

Karley Kehoe is a professor of history at Saint Mary's University and a Scottish historian. She walks us through a summarized history leading up to the 333-year-old massacre and why it is still affects people in Nova Scotia to this day.

Canada has a fentanyl czar, but should we be so focused on this drug moving into the U.S., or should more attention be given to dealing with it within our borders? To start digging into this, Jeff Douglas spoke with Fiona Martin. She is an associate professor in the department of sociology and social anthropology at Dalhousie University.