The St. John's Morning Show

Red Dress Day is a national day of remembrance and awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit People. First Light has a week of events planned to bring the community together. Leah Randell is a Cultural Support Worker at First Light, and she joined us over the line to discuss.

The CBC's Leila Beaudoin took us to the Seafood Expo in Boston, where there's a lot on the line for buyers and sellers this year.

Aquaculture companies have been ordered by the Province to clean up their back yards of old aquaculture net pens and waste. The CBC's Todd O'Brien brought us that story.

12 year old trampoline athlete Isaac Butler is heading to BC this week for a the Elite Canada gymnastics competition. If he performs well, he could qualify for nationals later this year. Isaac joined us in studio alongside his mom, Krista Butler, and Campia Gymnastics head coach Steve Nolan.

The Rooms is celebrating its 20th anniversary with an exhibition looking at the details behind the building's architecture. Our Morning Show reporter, Darrell Roberts, got a tour from Mireille Eagan, curator of contemporary art at The Rooms.

There's a virtual conference happening in mid-March aims to educate the public about developments in precision cancer medicine, as well as services, supports, and treatments available in NL and Atlantic Canada. It's called “Cancer is Personal: Humanizing Precision Medicine in Atlantic Canada." Sevtap Savas is one of the organizers. She gave us all the details.

The YWCA just completed a five year research project on improving services for LGBTQIA+ newcomers. Dr. Sulaimon Giwa of MUN’s School of Social Work was a close collaborator of this research. He joined us alongside Maria Gentle, the executive director of YWCA St. John’s.

Serving up a lunch suitable for everyone. Food First NL has plans for a new lunch program that could appear in schools across the province. For more details, we spoke with Food First NL CEO Josh Smee and program coordinator Ashley Byrne.

As February wraps up, spring still feels very far away. "Songs to Help Us Through the Long and Hungry Month of March" is happening in the Suncor Energy Hall, at the MUN School of Music on Saturday. Host Eleanor Dawson gave us all the details.

How would you feel cooking a meal for chef Gordon Ramsay? Chef Jeremy Charles joined us on the line to talk about his experience.