Lennie Gallant is in the musical spotlight this week. He's bringing his holiday show to the province next week andis remembering the late Jimmy Buffet. The pair worked together on Jimmy's latest album.

You've heard of dogs with jobs, but what about rats? Or spiders? Some of them are hard at work as well and Michael Edwards of Science East will have the details.

The Foreman Family in Hanwell continues their quest to cut emissions as part of the live net zero challenge. Their latest effort should also cut their electricity bills.

Randy Hatfield of the Human Development Council will join us to look at the province's recently announced affordability measures, and what he thinks could make a real difference for some of the people he works with.

The Fredericton SPCA might be forced to close in a matter of months. The charity still hasn't recovered from the pandemic. We reach the president of the board of directors, Cecile LePage.

We reach the CEO of TRICOAST Education, a local company working on a new assessment tool that can help identify learning difficulties in school-age children earlier.

Our food safety expert Janet Hamilton joins us to give some tips on how to keep your groceries fresh.

It's National Child Day and the province's child and youth advocate says literacy assessments in New Brunswick schools are at a crisis level. We reach Kelly Lamrock to learn more.

We head back to the Fredericton Public Library to learn about a skills kit there that you can borrow that can help you learn Wolastoqey.

Our panel of politics watchers gathers this week to talk about the fiscal update, abortion access and municipal funding for housing.