Shift (NB)

This week's passion project belongs to TikToker Larray Canam. He's become a bit of an online sensation, mixing cocktails and milkshakes for his followers. He'll tell us what keeps him creating.

Tattoos have become popular across the social spectrum in recent years, but you may be surprised to learn that in this province, there are no regulations in place to keep people safe. The CBC's Hannah Rudderham has been looking into it.

There are a number of owls you might hear in the province at this time of year. Alain Clavette joins us now with a bit of a primer on tell your Great Horned Owl songs from your Saw Whets.

More Cannabis NB stores could be coming to a neighbourhood near you…and in some prime locations. The crown corporation will set up three new stores in downtown Fredericton, uptown Saint John and on Mountain Road in Moncton. Lori Stickles, the CEO of Cannabis NB, spoke with Vanessa Vander Valk.

It's been a busy week in provincial politics. Child, youth and senior's advocate Kelly Lamrock released not one, but two reports. Shift’s political panel diggs into the reports.

This week on our What's Cooking segment, Brian Cormier waxes poetic about potatoes. He's just published a book of Acadian recipes.

Federal funding for a program that recycles fishing gear in Atlantic Canada is coming to an end, and the group that runs it is at a loss for how to continue their important work. We'll speak to Sonia Smith with the Fishing Gear Coalition of Atlantic Canada.

People in the province are digesting the recommendation made by the seniors advocate in yesterday's major report. Kelly Lamrock looked at the state of long term care...and what it would take to make it work better. We'll ask Suzanne Dupuis-Blanchard who developed the Nursing Homes Without Walls model for her thoughts.

The province's seniors' advocate has released his long awaited report on long term care. It calls for sweeping changes, including the creation of a new Long Term Care Act. And the advocate says changes are needed now. We speak with Kelly Lamrock.

The vocational school built in honour of a New Brunswick RCMP sargeant in Haiti, is currently closed due to gang violence. We get an update on the situation from Dr. Emilio Bazille, president of AQANU, the organization that built the school.