New Brunswick breweries and distilleries are feeling the pinch after tariffs on steel and aluminium remain in place under the new US-Mexico-Canada Agreement. Sebastian Roy, owner of New Brunswick's Distillerie Fils Du Roy, says the tariffs not only impact the cost of aluminium cans but steel equipment prices are also going up.

Strong, hardy, esthetically pleasing. All that and more was said about the once strongest man in the world, Eugen Sandow. Incidentally, some of the same characteristics were also used to describe a Canadian apple, the Sandow, which grows at Sandow Farms in Keswick Ridge. St. Thomas University history professor Carey Watt has been studying the connection between the man and the apple.

Music New Brunswick added a new category for its music awards this year: best cover band! The Nobie Jones Band, named after singer Noemie Auffrey-Jones, is one of three nominees. The band is also nominated for Fan's Choice and Member's Choice.

Famed concert pianist and documentary producer Margaret Ann Ireland was born in Winnipeg in 1928. She toured the globe and travelled extensively but eventually settled in Saint John in the 1980's. She actively supported the arts and served on the first New Brunswick Arts Board. Ireland passed away just this past June, but had donated several personal items to the provincial archives. It's a favourite collection of sound and moving images of archivist Elena Cobb.

Much of the focus for reducing single use plastics has been on bags and straws. But the produce section of the average supermarket is full of plastic: strawberries come in a clam shell, and mushrooms in a plastic tub with cellophane wrap. But changing that is not as easy as one may think, says Sylvain Charlebois, a professor at Dalhousie University working on food distribution and policy.

People's Alliance leader Kris Austin met with the Lieutenant Governor to indicate his party will provide stability for a Progressive Conservative government. Then, Liberal leader Brian Gallant came out to say the legislature will be back by Oct. 23. He's talking with the Green Party. Meanwhile, the Progressive Conservatives say they're not happy with the idea of working with the Alliance.

Indigenous musicians from around the province are meeting in Fredericton this weekend to participate in a three-day recording session. The project was organized by Arts NB and a travelling recording studio

called Musique Nomade. Program coordinator Corrina Merasty-Gallant hopes the project will promote the province's Indigenous talent to a greater audience.

Alain Clavette has been freed up to get out in the field lately. And it's great timing because his favourite birder is on the way for a visit.

The chemicals that make most popular personal care products smell good are not listed as ingredients on their labels. A new report published this week is looking at some of the unlisted ingredients and found not all of them may be good for our health. Muhannad Mulas is a program Manager of Toxics at Environmental Defense Canada, which partnered in the study.

It's a busy time of year for Riverview's Cheryl Scott. She's cooking and canning preserves every day. For the last five years it's been her full-time job. That's when she started Jems Preserves.