The Nova Scotia Supreme Court has issued an injunction to give powers of arrest for police ahead of a planned public protest on Citadel Hill on the weekend. And even though police say it was needed to help enforce public health guidelines, a group of people in support of Palestine were ticketed for protesting inside their vehicles at Inglis and Tower Road. Internet and Privacy expert David Fraser discusses the right to protest, the powers of the injunction and the intersection of free speech and public health in a pandemic.

A so-called Freedom Rally for Citadel Hill this weekend has been cancelled. Organizers are in part blaming the on-line harassment and other threats for their decision to cancel it under duress. This happened before the province announced it had been granted an injunction by the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia stopping anti-vaccine and anti-public health order protests, effective immediately. We spoke about Protesting and public shaming during a provincial lock down with Dalhousie Professor Dr. Robert Huish and the legal and Constitutional perspective with Professor Emeritus of Law Wayne MacKay.

Earlier this week the Nova Scotia Teacher's Union warned of cuts to teaching positions in HRM High Schools. I was able to speak with one of the teachers who was told she is "surplus" at the end of this term. I also sat down with Journalist Stuart Peddle to discuss the story that was published on SaltWire.com.

A radio station in Truro has stirred up a friendly competition between businesses using their signs. We chat with Mitch and Lauren from Big Dog about why they think it took off so quickly. And Music Columnist Eric Alper joins the conversation about the Rock & Roll of Fame's Class of 2021.

Nova Scotia found a way to resume jury trials and protect the participants in a time of a pandemic. But it's still illegal for people to discuss the deliberations of a jury, even if it's with a mental health professional. And that's one of the things the Canadian Juries Commission is looking to have changed.

It's the second year in a row that National Nursing week is happening in the midst of a global pandemic. And with spiking numbers of cases in our third wave in Nova Scotia, Nursing Union President Janet Hazelton discusses PPE, pandemic fatigue and resiliance and mental health.

NACI (The National Advisory Committee on Immunization) and Nova Scotia's Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Strang are sending mixed messages about "preferred vaccines" and the risks of waiting for "the right one". That and the topic of herd immunity are subjects we take up with Doctor Rod Russell, a viral immunologist at Memorial University in Newfoundland and Labrador.

SaltWire journalist Chris Lambie is reporting on a story looking at the Mass Casualty Commission and the business card from RCMP Chief Superintendent John Robin. He showed up at the door of a witness to the Onslow-Belmont Firehall shooting on April 19th of 2020. What is written on that card suggests he is working with the Independent review in the mass killing in Portapique is now raising some troubling questions.

After months of debate and deliberation, Halifax Regional Municipality has passed its 1-Billion-dollar budget. What does Mayor Mike Savage have to say about the second pandemic spending plan, the money collected on behalf of the province, and who he would most like to have on his own podcast, Mike Drop?

Earlier this year, Ottawa labelled a Canadian Western Chauvinist Organization a terrorist entity. This week the Proud Boys, as they were known, announced they were officially dissolving. But that doesn't mean its members won't be disavowing their far right leanings. Dr. Ajay Parasram is an Assistant Professor in the Department of International Development Studies at Dalhousie University.