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The book is called 'From the Enlightenment to Black Lives Matter: Tracing the Impacts of Racial Trauma in Black Communities from the Colonial Era to the Present', released today. To hear more, Alex Guye reached the books author, Ingrid Waldron. She is a professor & the HOPE Chair in Peace and Health at McMaster University. Here's part of their conversation, starting with Ingrid explaining why the book begins during the age of enlightenment.

Housing, healthcare and affordability --understandably-- are taking up much of the conversation around the 2024 provincial general election. But with little to no talk of the arts in the provincial election, this has some people within that community asking why not and sharing awareness of the benefits increasing support for the arts community can have for everyone. And to speak more about this, I spoke with two guests earlier this afternoon. Therese Cruz is the Executive Director Visual Arts Nova Scotia. Chris O'Neil is the Executive Director of The Ross Creek Centre for the Arts and Co-Chair of Theatre Nova Scotia. The first voice you'll hear is Therese.

Omisoore Dryden is an associate professor and the James R. Johnston endowed chair in Black Canadian Studies in the faculty of Medicine at Dalhousie University. Her new book, Got Blood to Give: Anti-Black Homophobia in Blood Donation, released earlier this month, and there will be a launch event for it Monday, November 25th at Venus Envy. She shared some of the contents of the book with host, Jeff Douglas.

Chris Lydon, Michelle Coffin and Barbara Emodi join host Jeff Douglas for one last conversation during Nova Scotia's 2024 provincial election campaign.

Naomi Shelton from Elections Nova Scotia tells us everything we need to know about voting in the provincial election.

Deputy Clerk Jennifer West tells host Jeff Douglas it's part of the town's bid to officially become bird friendly.

Piya Chattopadhyay is the host of CBC's The Sunday Magazine. She stopped by the studio today to tell host, Jeff Douglas, about this years panel, and what her goal as moderator will be tonight.

Dr. Matthew Clarke is an emergency physician at QEII Cobequid. He stopped by the studio today to talk about why an increased incidence of bacterial pneumonia this fall is sounds a lot scarier than it is.

The report titled, 'Predictive gene expression signature diagnoses neonatal sepsis before clinical presentation', was published in in the journal eBiomedicine. Host Jeff Douglas speaks to Dr. Tobi Kollmann, who is a senior co author of the report, to hear more.

On November 19th, the first of three panels about violence and harassment in politics will take place. It will detail the barriers women, and gender diverse politicians face at all levels. Several organizations have pulled together to make this happen, one of them is Nova Scotia's Be the Peace Institute, which is a non-profit dedicated to ending gender based violence, to ultimately achieve gender equity and social justice. Host Jeff Douglas spoke with the organizations executive director, Sue Bookchin. She started by explaining where the idea for the panel series came from.