Our birder Alain Clavette visited a former sewage lagoon turned nature preserve in Memramcook, and discovered the community set up boxes for ducks and other birds to live in.

Blue Roof Distillers, the Strang family's vodka business, was born as a way to use potatoes that are too small to sell to grocery stores. Now they're also creating a potato gin.

Uptown Saint John has installed a Meter for Change, similar to Kindness Meters found in Moncton and Fredericton. But do they really make difference?

Pam Novak at AWI has news on the release of a male surfer scoter duck and updates on other critters in this week's report.

Vanessa Vander Valk talks to a Mount Allison student who is a youth delegate at the UN Climate Change conference.

Sandra Buckingham and Onne de Boer have taken in four dogs from NOWZAD, the only animal shelter in Afghanistan. In the future, they hope to pair dogs from the shelter with military members or veterans who need service dogs to help with PTSD.

The political panel discussed the extramural health deal with Medavie and the discussion around it in Question Period, as well as the new rules for storing recreational marijuana at home. Plus, the new focus on MLAs who hold second jobs.

Alain Clavette went birding with his uncle Roger LeBlanc in Fundy National Park. And he discovered lots of American goldfinches, an orange-crowned warbler, and even a beaver.

New Brunswick is hosting the second annual Shaking the Movers event. The workshop hopes to inspire children and youth to consider the United Nation's Convention on the Rights of the Child. This year, the focus is on the rights of child refugees.

In the 1700s, Acadian settlers built dikes along the border of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Now there's some concern that rising sea levels and frequent storms will impact the aging structures.