The Signal

The N.L. Historic Heritage recently gave out awards to people whose projects were on preserving, restoring or designing buildings with N.L. heritage in mind. From a hundred year old homes to memorials, todays’ panel talks about their projects and the importance of keeping remnants of history alive. 

GUESTS - Luke Quinton, President of the NL Historic Trust; the wiiners of the Southcott Awards: Matthew Mills and Tom Wright with Mills&Wright Landscape Architecture, Kris Drodger and Amy Chislet, Stephanie Moyst and Tyler Stapleton. 

We are living in a time of climate change charged extreme weather and dealing with its impacts. Today we speak with people who after seeing the impacts of climate change took action and started supporting renewable energy solutions.

Guests: Community Organizer Sophia Lindfield, Spencer Scott from Fridays for Future, Atlantic Organizer of the National Campaign for a Youth Climate Corps and Volunteer Coordinator of the Social Justice Co-op NL. Lea Movelle, Student Jessica Warren, AngajukKak for Makkovik Barry Andersen, Student Brandon Power 

Today on the show we speak with folks from the Food Producers Forum who have a new report out that attempts to answer the question 'How dow we feed ourselves?' 

Guests: Alison Snow, chair of the Food Producers Forum, Heather Zurel founder, Data Farms; John Finn, executive director, School Lunch Association 

Today on the show we talk about Love Our Local Authors (LOLA) Month which is brought to you by Newfoundland and Labrador Public Libraries. So join us for a conversation about writers and stories that help shape the province’s literary culture.

Today on the show we talk science with eight univeristy researchers and it's all jargon free. It's part of this week's Scientific Endeavours in Academia conference at Memorial University.

A show where we play episodes from This is Newfoundland and Labrador podcast all under the theme of policing. From gun crime, officers quitting and calls for more policing in rural N.L. 

Today on the show we talk about wild foods. Whether it's foraging, hunting or harvesting what the ocean has to offer, we ask guests if we have enough access to wild foods, what's working and what may need changing. 

Guests: Todd Perrin, chef; Barry Fordham, hunting and fishing advocate; Lori McCarthy, food and culture advocate; Byron Alexander, Chief of Indian Head First Nations; Patricia Kemuksigak, chairperson for the NunaKatiget Inuit Community Corporation. 

The Newfoundland Quarterly magazine is out with a new issue this spring with the theme this time around being “fabric.” We invited the editor and contributors to the show to talk about their pieces and the inspiration behind them.

We have a changing word and and a changing economy, today on the show we ask how do we make sure people are equipped for the jobs of today and tomorrow? Education is part of it and so is understanding what employers want and how jobs are changing. We've got a great panel that digs into all of it. 

Guests: 

From College of the North Atlantic: Brent Howell, dean, Natural Resources and Industrial Trades; Brenda Lockyer, associate dean, Business & IT; Fergus O'Brien, vice-president, Academic & Applied Research.

From N.L. Workforce Innovation Centre: Sharon McLennon, director; Aleksandra Stefanovic-Chafe, faculty researcher

Inaara Hasmani, strategic projects lead, Handshake AI

Matt Pike, MUN Faculty of Business Administration

Team Broken Earth is celebrating 15 years conducting medical relief missions around the world. Today on the show we talk about this milestone, as well as recent missions conducted in Guatemala, Dominican Republic, Uganda and for the first time, Jamaica.