The St. John's Morning Show

Petty Harbour Public House owner Natasha Fuller joined us on the line to talk about how business is going so far.

Nord Space has announced that southern Newfoundland will be the location for "Spaceport Canada," the country's first fully integrated space launch facility. The CBC's Hillary Johnson brought us that story.

The Morning Show's Katherine Crummey stopped by MUN and heard stories from students about infrastructure problems they've seen on campus.

Tony Wakeham thinks it was unnecessary for the Premier to travel to the US for the inauguration. He responded to Andrew Furey's interview on the show this morning.

St. John's Pride put out a statement about Donald Trump's gender identity rhetoric. Pride co-chair Eddy St. Coeur explained how this language from a world leader incites local hate and how this affects local community. Gemma Hickey expanded on that and talked about how this affects travel to the US.

J.D. Trainor's life surrounded hockey. He passed away last week at the age of 16. Jared Butler is the president and chief medical officer of Hockey NL. Chris Druken is the principal of Mount Pearl Senior High and the hockey coach at that school. They talked about J.D. and his legacy.

The Auditor General's office released a report about MUN's facilities management and gave the university a failing grade. Nicolas Keough is the executive director of MUN's Students' Union. He stopped by the studio to talk about it.

Premier Andrew Furey is fresh off his trip to Washington, D.C. for Donald Trump's inauguration. He explained why he felt it was necessary to make that trip.

The province's beekeeping association is trying to build a new "hive mind" with a training course for beginner beekeepers. David Tutton is the group's communications director. He gave us all the details.

Sophie Burke and Katie Colbourne say their participation in the CNIB's vision mates program has blossomed into a friendship. Morning Show reporter Darrell Roberts tagged along on their shopping trip yesterday.