Shift (NB)

As of Nov. 1, provincial student loans will no longer accrue interest. We talk to executive director of the New Brunswick Student Alliance Sydona Chandon about how significant this news is.

There’s one scam that seems to be particularly common today. Ralph Landry of Ontario tells us how he almost fell for it when he received a call from what sounded like his granddaughter in Fredericton. We talk to Erin King, the director communications and public affairs at Financial and Consumer Commission.

It's been eight years, but Jake Palmer is back. He was once a fixture on the show and first joined to talk about cars. Today though, we talk to him about being a parent in your 40s.

Nominations are now closed for municipal elections this month, and candidates can get campaigning. Not every city and town is voting though, only those that were newly created during the electoral reform process. We'll check in with chief electoral officer Kim Poffenroth.

We've been sharing New Brunswick ghost stories this month, and we have one more location to visit - the island of Grand Manan and its many ghostly haunts.

Alain Clavette is re-thinking the way he does birding. He'll tell us about patch birding, and why it's more conducive to his lifestyle now.

There's been a lot of news about health care this week. Everything from an agreement with a school in Maine to train more New Brunswick nurses, to the province's plan to allow more minor surgeries to be done in private clinics to alleviate wait times. We've wanted to ask the president of the New Brunswick Nurses Union about all of it. Paula Doucet will join us.

A new sitting of the legislature is underway and there's lots to talk about. We'll gather our panel of politics watchers.

Earlier this week the Higgs government outlined its priorities in a Speech from the Throne. Both the Liberals and the Greens are unhappy with the speech, and call it "status quo." We'll hear why when we speak to David Coon and Susan Holt.

The town of Shediac received an award for excellence in municipal innovation recently, for its efforts to become more energy efficient. In fact, the community is a bit of a 'living lab' for NB Power's Smart Grid research project. We'll find out about it from Smart Grid director Brent Staeben.