The Signal

Wildfires, drought, flooding, disappearing shorelines — these are the climate change impacts people living in communities across Newfoundland and Labrador are grappling with. Today on The Signal we start our third annual Climate Week with a look at how communities are trying to adapt to our climate reality. We start the show in Brazil with CBC International Climate Producer Jill English who gives us an update from UN climate negotiations at COP 30. 

Guests: Jill English, CBC international climate producer; Kathleen Parewick, the lead for Climate-Ready N.L. with Municipalities Newfoundland and Labrador; Ashley Smith, managing director, Fundamental Inc.; Triffie Parsons, town clerk/manager, Hare Bay; Marsha Crocker, deputy mayor, Trout River 

Show about the play Braiding Peonies, written by Sobia Shaheen Shaikh and directed by Santiago Guzmán. 

It’s a play revolving around a Muslim family in St. John’s after they faced a racist incident. It’s about why art and sharing those kind of stories matter - to make a difference, to build connections, for representation. 

Josh Smee, CEO of Food First N.L.; Russell Williams, MUN political science professor; David Macdonald, senior economist with Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives; Darrelle Bennett, whose family owns a couple of convenience stores in Happy Valley-Goose Bay. 

Alan Doyle stops in to talk about his new book 'The Smiling Land: All around the circle in my Newfoundland and Labrador'. 

We check-in with Adam Walsh about the Remembrance day events at the War Memorial, and Terry Roberts reports a radio documentary from last year, that included areas just off the shores of our own province.

Today's show brings you coverage from CBN and speaks with residents about rebuilding efforts after a devastating summer of wildfires. The main question we ask- what does rebuilding a community look like?

Today on the show we have an economist, a business professor, a political scientist and the head of the Board of Trade all weighing in on the federal budget and what it means for you. 

Guests: Tom Cooper, MUN business professor; Lynn Gambin, economist; AnnMarie Boudreau, CEO, Board of Trade; Scott Matthews, MUN political science professor.  

We are talking to students at MUN who want to raise the alarm on the importance of mental health supports and resources - especially for students - we will talk about academic stress, financial stress, food, and being far from home. They are part of MUN Minds which is a student peer support resource. 

GUESTS: Matt Wheeler, trained peer-supporter and is currently doing a masters in experimental psychology; Haley Bonnell, first year PhD student researching peer-support, and co-chair of MUN minds; Tariq Al-Sidawi, social work student and the outreach co-ordinator with MUN Minds; and Kelly Neville, wellness Lead at MUN’s Student Wellness and Counselling Centre.

The Centre for Social Enterprise at Memorial University is hosting a full week of activities in celebration of Social Enterprise Day. On today's show they highlight some of the social enterprises the students created. The students offer some insight into which social issues they want to tackle through their businesses.

GUESTS: Gillian Morrissey; manager of the Centre for Social Enterprise, Oluwatoyin Mary Awosansya, co-founder of MKS productions; Pablo Baldiviezo Rodriguez and Yasaman Alidadi, founders of FutureSprouts; and we are calling Mike Taylor, founder of Frontline Peers. 

Food Banks Canada's annual HungerCount report is out and says food bank use has doubled nationally since 2019. Today we start with the national look and zoom in to check with food banks in this province. 

Guests: Lesley Burgess, executive director, Bridges to Hope; Tina Bishop, general manager, Community Food Sharing Association; Rudy Singleton, chairperson, Emmaus House; Danielle Seward, executive director, Single Parent Association of Newfoundland and Labrador; Kirstin Beardsley, CEO Food Banks Canada; Marjorie Flowers, Hopedale AngajukKâk; Pastor Gerard Nobel, chair of Stephenville Emergency Food Services; Glenn Roil; chairman of the board of Canada Without Poverty.