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MBSR course teacher Tom Wigan and Healthy Minds Cooperative peer outreach coordinator, Dave Miller, tell Jeff Douglas about the opportunity.

Seaside A Cappella's music director and founder, Judy Comeau stops by to talk about the win after arriving back home.

Linguist Bernie Francis tells Jeff Douglas why the amendments made in Bill 127 to the Crown Lands Act feel like "we're on a merry-go-round", where the past is repeating itself and how the province has a duty to consult the Mi'kmaq before making decisions with the land and other resources.

Enchanted butter, mysteriously sick cows, allegations of bewitching?! That’s all in the first of “Explore the Lore”, which was put together by folklore enthusiast Melody Rose for the CBC Creator Network.

Each year, the Mi’kmaw History Month Committee decide on a theme for the month of October and this year, storytelling has taken centre stage. Mercedes Peters is the Sharing Our Stories Coordinator with the Mi'kmawey Debert Cultural Centre. She tells Alex Guye why this theme was a long time coming.

This is because even though they hold extreme exclusionary beliefs, incels do not necessarily adhere to views that other far right groups tend to emphasize about nationalism, ethnicity and race. Kayla Preston is the lead on this study. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto in the department of sociology. She shares the findings and methodology with Jeff Douglas.

Jeff Douglas speaks with Teresa Heffernan, Director of the Social Robot Futures Project, at Saint Mary's University.

Bill 127 covers changes to seven affects seven pieces of existing legislation and creates one new one. One of the changes was to the Personal Health Information Act and removes the word imminent from part of the disclosure section of the act. This allows health care workers to disclose information without a patients consent if doing so would avert or minimize a significant danger. This is something the group Nova Scotia Moms has been advocating for. Heather Spidell is one of the cofounders. She spoke with guest host Alex Guye just before Bill 127 received royal assent.

The Executive Director, Kathleen Martin, tells guest host Alex Guye why some sea turtles end up, cold-stunned, on Nova Scotia's shores.

Robert Huish talks with Alex Guye about a new analysis of 30 years of political violence in the US. It finds more incidents by left-wing attackers than right-wing attackers, so far in 2025 -- the first time this has happened in data they covered going back to the mid-1990s. Here's the analysis > https://www.csis.org/analysis/ideological-trends-us-terrorism