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World Oceans Day is coming up this week. And there are few people more passionate about the ocean than Bruce Smith of Deer Island. He started Seascape Kayak Tours on the island about 30 years ago. And since then he has spent countless hours exploring the waters surrounding the island and beyond. 

It took a ton of strength, sweat, and strategy, but Saint John's Whitney Beers is going to the Olympic Games in Paris this summer. To be clear - she'll be cheering, not competing. The trip is her reward for being one of the three winners of Canada's Ultimate Challenge.

Clean Air Day is this Wednesday, and the New Brunswick Lung Association is marking the day in a couple of ways.

The executive director of Partners for Youth isn't surprised by anything he heard in the latest report from the province's child and youth advocate.

We gather our panel of politics watchers this week to talk through all the big stories in provincial politics this week. 

An adult day centre in Oromocto is helping seniors with dementia feel a stronger sense of belonging. The CBC's Isabelle Leger tells that story. 

This week our birder does some late spring birding with a beginner. 

The chef and co-owner of The Feel Good in Fredericton loves mango for sweet and savory dishes. He'll join us to share some ideas. 

The connection between raw milk and avian flu. We hear from microbiologist Jason Tetro about the situation in the US and what the potential risk is to Canadians. 

The province's child and youth advocate says hundreds of the most high-need, vulnerable children are being sent home for at least part of the school day. It's a practice Kelly Lamrock says is illegal.