The Signal

This International Women's Day, we are celebrating the everyday ways women are there for us — from cooking, making holidays special, offering a shoulder to cry on, and making us feel loved. We want to show that we appreciate those moments. 

Today on the show we speak with experts and avocates who have frontline perspectives on what vulnerable youth are facing in Newfoundland and Labrador. We talk housing, food insecurity, mental health struggles, and the justice system -- from gaps to fixes. 

Today on the show we talk about the trade war, impacts to Newfoundland and Labrador, and finding the best way forward. 

Today's show speaks with young activists and organizers about climate change action facing the 2025 landscape -- U.S. announcement it's pulling out of the Paris climate agreement and a federal election coming at some point. 

Today on the show we talk about something called the 'resource curse' and whether it is hindering economic development in Newfoundland and Labrador. And we ask folks what kind of economy do you want for the future?

David Behm, a professor at Memorial University's School of Human Kinetics and Recreation; Mike Wahl, a health educator, writer and professor at MUN’s Faculty of Medicine. 

On today's show we speak with political watchers about Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Andrew Furey's surprise resignation. Guests react to the news and talk about what kind of leadership should come next. 

As Ukraine's war with Russia enters its fourth year, we speak with folks from the Newfoundland and Labrador Ukrainian community. The conversation covers the latest on the war, how folks are coping back home and how the diaspora is doing in N.L.

Today's show dives into calls for buying local and Canadian and the noticeable uptick in Canadian pride in respinse to tariff threats and musings of Canada becoming the 51st state by the U.S. president. During the hour we ask guests about the increase in patriotism, we ask what it means to be Canadian and if there is such thing as having too much pride. 

Today on the show we speak with some tech and manufacturing folks in Newfoundland and Labrador about Trump tariff threats and the way forward. We talk about how to mitigate economic downfall, find new trading partners and reform some of the ways we do business in this province, and across the country.