The New Brunswick Book Awards will be handed out this weekend. We'll speak with the final author nominated in the fiction category. Lisa Alward joins me in studio to talk about her latest book, 'Cocktail.' 

This week our birder heads to Grand Manan with fellow birders Jean and Jim Wilson to check out a King Eider. 

A fishery dispute was resolved this week within 24 hours, but with more endangered whales showing up in the Gulf of St. Lawrence we'll look at the way forward. We hear from the MP for Acadie-Bathurst, Serge Cormer, and a representative for Oceana Canada.

On this week's segment, we speak with veggie-lover, and owner of Vegolution in Saint John, Keith Broome. 

There has been a resolution, after several lobster fishing zones in the Gulf of St. Lawrence were forced to close for 15 days after an endangered North Atlantic right whale was spotted in the area. We speak with Luc LeBlanc with the Maritime Fishermen's Union.

National Trail Care Day is on June 1st. We'll hear how that day will be celebrated right here in Fredericton by speaking with communications director Allison Leonard. 

The Court of Appeal ruled Thursday that New Brunswick's lieutenant-governor is not required to be bilingual. The CBC's Jacques Poitras explains.

Our science guy Michael Edwards joins us to talk about how long some animals can live. 

Moncton council has approved a $200,000 spend on an art commission to be displayed outside of the new RCMP building in Moncton. We talk to Mi'kmaw artist Brian Francis about it. 

He's "some slick" and he's from New Brunswick. John Fletcher, or Johnny Bartibog, joins us to talk about his latest music video that's been racking up the views online.