Associate producer Viola Pruss talks to her friend Andrea Peters, who makes her own cleaning products.

A couple of toads are spending the winter at the Atlantic Wildlife Institute. But director Pam Novak was also looking after common eiders, after more of them collided with power lines in the Tantramar Marsh.

Technology columnist Ramona Pringle looks at an app that claims to scour thousands of social media posts to provide parents with a "risk rating" for potential babysitters.

A new Christmas-themed podcast is topping the US Kids & Family podcast charts. 'Welcome to Tinsel Town' was made in Fredericton by co-writers and directors Jenna Knorr and Adam Ganong, as well as actors from around the city.

Catherine Lovekin of Mount Allison University is part of the science team that monitors the BRITE-Constellation satellites. The five nano satellites capture the brightest stars, and happened to catch the full life cycle of a nova.

New Brunswick labour leader Mathilda Blanchard would be 98 years old today. She died in 2007, and was an influential leader and role model, at a time when few women held positions of power.

Marine scientists along the Eastern shore of the United States are raising concerns about seismic blasting along the Coast. Howard Rosenbaum, a senior scientist with the New York Aquarium, says the underwater explosions will disturb marine life, including the endangered North Altantic right whale.

Theatre New Brunswick has taken on the ambitious task of creating a world of magic beyond the wardrobe. The classic C.S. Lewis tale The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe comes to life on stage in Fredericton this week, and artistic director Natasha MacLellan said it will also tour to Saint John and Moncton.

The federal government rejected the Premier Blaine Higgs' request to hold off on emissions regulations for industrial emitters. Meanwhile, the consumer carbon tax comes into play in April, but the Progressive Conservatives are making good on an election promise to challenge that in court. And schools are once again free to sell fruit juice and chocolate milk to students.

Hawks, eagles and owls. It's all about the predators this week with birder Alain Clavette.