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August 31st is International Overdose Awareness Day. Savannah Burgess, peer team lead with the POSSE Project, and Landon 'Morty' Morton, a community support worker with Mainline Needle Exchange, talk about the importance of the day.

The Black Beauty Culture Association has made a lot of strides in their work to increase access to Black beauty training in Nova Scotia. Mainstreet's Alex Guye spoke with several people involved about their work, and how they're looking to the future.

shalan joudry's meditative homage to sweetgrass will have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival next week. She joins host Jeff Douglas, alongside Rose Meuse, to talk about the "poetic doc" titled welima'q.

Halifax improv group, Hello City, has a new show opening at Halifax Fringe Festival on Thursday. Galaxy Pals: A Space (Odd)yssey will take the stage at the Bus Stop Theatre. Host Jeff Douglas is joined by cast members Liam Fair and Colin McGuire.

It's been a busy summer for Nova Scotia's television and film industry and it's looking like it will be a busy fall too. Casting director Erin Hennessey joins host Jeff Douglas to talk about her work on local productions and how you can get involved.

A new conservation project will bring together Nova Scotians to help replant and regenerate eelgrass meadows. It's called the Community Eelgrass Restoration Initiative and it will bring together community members, Mi'kmaq leaders and Dalhousie University scientists. Host Jeff Douglas is joined by Kristina Boerder and Tyler Sack to talk about the new long-term restoration project.

A Canadian cult character is returning to the big screen. Deaner, or Dean Murdoch, is a metal-head, Prairie boy, the governor of given'er. Paul Spence created Deaner for the FUBAR movies, and now in Deaner '89, the character will explore his family roots. Spence joins host Jeff Douglas to talk about the film, ahead of a special screener in Halifax Wednesday evening.

Earlier this week, a woman in Dartmouth, N.S., raised concerns there being only one walk-in clinic in her area and it's operating with reduced hours. Host Jeff Douglas is joined by Colin Stevenson with the province's Department of Health and Wellness to talk about what other urgent primary health-care options are available to Nova Scotians, if a walk-in clinic isn't available.

Guest host Preston Mulligan is joined by St. Francis Xavier University assistant professor Morgan Bimm to discuss recent slang trends and where they came from, including the term "brat" and the phrase "very mindful, very demure."

Earlier this month, a Nova Scotian pipe band competed in the World Pipe Band Championships in Glasgow, Scotland. The Dartmouth & District Pipe Band, which will celebrate 60 years in action next year, placed second in Grade 3A. Guest host Preston Mulligan is joined by Blaise Theriault, the band's pipe major, to talk about how it all went down.