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Pierre LeBel is planning to hit the road from Yellowknife at 5 am tomorrow. Originally from Edmundston LeBel has called Yellowknife home since 1986. He lives in Yellowknife's famous Old Town neighbourhood, he spoke with host Vanessa Vander Valk.

Have you ever seen someone include a banana in a photo to provide scale? Michael Edwards at Science East has, and it's led him down a whole rabbit hole of measuring.

There's some guidance in the child and youth advocate's report on policy 713 for District Education Councils. Many of them have passed strengthened versions of the government's revised policy. The Education MInister has suggested provincial policy takes precedence, but the advocate finds DECs have a duty to protect students. We'll speak with a DEC member.

It's been a wet summer, and one grower with heavy clay soil says that's made for a really tricky year. In fact, the owners of Bunker Hill Farm let remaining customers know they won't have any veggies for sale this summer. We'll speak to Richard Cleveland about the issue.

We meet two New Brunswick para-cyclers who just finished competing at a world championship in Scotland.

The Child and Youth Advocate has released a much anticipated report on Policy 713, after spending the summer doing consultations and research around legality and children's rights. Kelly Lamrock joins us.

We continue our look at paddling in the province. This week, we'll find out about a big Canoe and Camping Symposium at Yoho Lake next month.

It's the dog days of summer now, and many of you may be trying to spend as much time outdoors as possible. But for those rainy days, or even those too-hot days, there's always video games to play! Associate Producer Danielle McCreadie has a few titles she wants to hype up.

Team New Brunswick won a pair of bronze medals at the Francophonie Games in the Democratic Republic of Congo earlier this month. Both medals were won by women wrestlers from the Fredericton area. We speak to one of them - 20 year old Vivian Kutnowski.

The Quebec Major Junior Hockey League has essentially banned fighting. Q-League blogger Jamie Tozer will tell us more about the league's decision and its wider implications.