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Enchanted butter, mysteriously sick cows, allegations of bewitching?! That's all in the first of “Explore the Lore”, which was put together by folklore enthusiast Melody Rose for the CBC Creator Network.

Each year, the Mi'kmaw History Month Committee decide on a theme for the month of October and this year, storytelling has taken centre stage. Mercedes Peters is the Sharing Our Stories Coordinator with the Mi'kmawey Debert Cultural Centre. She tells Alex Guye why this theme was a long time coming.

This is because even though they hold extreme exclusionary beliefs, incels do not necessarily adhere to views that other far right groups tend to emphasize about nationalism, ethnicity and race. Kayla Preston is the lead on this study. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto in the department of sociology. She shares the findings and methodology with Jeff Douglas.

Jeff Douglas speaks with Teresa Heffernan, Director of the Social Robot Futures Project, at Saint Mary's University.

Bill 127 covers changes to seven affects seven pieces of existing legislation and creates one new one. One of the changes was to the Personal Health Information Act and removes the word imminent from part of the disclosure section of the act. This allows health care workers to disclose information without a patients consent if doing so would avert or minimize a significant danger. This is something the group Nova Scotia Moms has been advocating for. Heather Spidell is one of the cofounders. She spoke with guest host Alex Guye just before Bill 127 received royal assent.

The Executive Director, Kathleen Martin, tells guest host Alex Guye why some sea turtles end up, cold-stunned, on Nova Scotia's shores.

Boris Worm drops by from Dalhousie University to explain new data to guest host Alex Guye.

Robert Huish talks with Alex Guye about a new analysis of 30 years of political violence in the US. It finds more incidents by left-wing attackers than right-wing attackers, so far in 2025 -- the first time this has happened in data they covered going back to the mid-1990s. Here's the analysis > https://www.csis.org/analysis/ideological-trends-us-terrorism

He speaks with guest host Alex Guye.

Elder and linguist Bernie Francis talks with guest host Preston Mulligan about Centralization. This policy, enacted in 1942, attempted to get all the Mi'kmaq in Nova Scotia to locate in either Sipekne'katik or Eskasoni. Bernie says, before that, Mi'kmaq were documented living in more than 50 communities around the province. Recordings of now-deceased elders suggest centralization allowed church leaders to more effectively prohibit use of the Mi'kmaw language.

Nova Scotia Moms is a grassroots group of mothers and loved ones who have either lost children to suicide or they are supporting loved ones living with serious mental illness and addiction. Nancy Saunders and Heather Spidell are the groups cofounders. Cyndi Corbett is a member. The group hopes that with the passing of Bill 127, important changes to the language in the Personal Health Information Act would become law.

Our oceans guy, Boris Worm, tells guest host Alex Guye about the new Planetary Health Check from the Potsdam Institute. And about the available solutions to the problems we face.

Arad tells Mainstreet's producer Alex Mason how he ended up putting a satellite into orbit, and why.

The Mainstreet Spinbusters - Barbara Emodi, Chris Lydon and Michelle Coffin - drop into Studio A to talk with guest host Alex Guye.

Meg Hodges is the general manager of the Kings Transit Authority. She tells guest host, Alex Guye why this decision was made and what improvements will be coming for the service.

He speaks with guest host Alex Guye.

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Catholic theologian David Deane drops into Studio A to speak with guest host Alex Guye

We use a clip sandwich to illustrate how Jimmy Kimmel got taken off the air, and who's taking credit. Then, guest host Preston Mulligan is joined by Robert Huish, from Dalhousie University. The introduction to the interview with Professor Huish features an extended version of the clip we broadcast of Brendan Carr from the FCC.

Both our items from today's show, marking the death this morning of retired Senator Donald Oliver. He was the first Black person appointed to the Canadian Senate. His memoir is called "A Matter of Equality: The Life's Work of Senator Don Oliver."

Guest host Preston Mulligan hears a range of views, from Rebecca Schijns at Oceana Canada, Bernie Berry who manages the Yarmouth Herring Management Committee, and Colin Sproul who represents the Bay Of Fundy Inshore Fishermen's Association.

Elli Ofthenorth tells Alex Mason about almost a dozen seahorses she saw Sunday at Paddys Head. Then, three ecologists talk about other examples of warm water migrants that are showing up more often off Nova Scotia's coast, and how they're contributing to research in this area.

He speaks with guest host Preston Mulligan.

Nova Scotians can get free tickets to watch this movie online by going to the AIFF site - atlanticfilmfestival.ca/films - and searching out the movie What We Dreamed Of Then. Choose the Sept 17-Sept 21 screening, and use this coupon code: WHATWEDREAMEDOFTHENONLINE25

She speaks with guest host Preston Mulligan, after all three of the synagogues in metro were vandalized on the weekend -- spray-painted with anti-Semitic symbols and messages. Police are investigating these as hate crime incidents, and you can see an image of one of the suspects in coverage at cbc.ca/NS, or on the Halifax Police account at X.com.

Canadian legends Mary Walsh and Sheila McCarthy dropped into studio to talk about their new film Dancing on the Elephant just before it's world premiere at the 2025 Atlantic International Film Festival

A small town in Cape Breton becomes home to an international drug smuggling ring. That's the premise for Grammy nominated music video director...Andy Hines' directorial debut, Little Lorraine - inspired by the song by award-winning musician Adam Baldwin, who is a writer along with Andy on this film. Andy and Adam stopped by the studio for a chat

The award winning actor's film is having its debut at the Atlantic International Film Festival. Wayne Burns gives Jeff Douglas a bit of non-spoiler background ahead of the films showing.

Alex Khasnabish is chair of the department of Sociology and Anthropology at Mount Saint Vincent University. He studies social movements, radical politics and social and political theory. He speaks with Jeff Douglas about the current polarized moment with social movements and why we struggle to speak to one another when we have differing political and social views.

We hear some of what Mark Carney said during his news conference today, where he unveiled his top five picks for "nation building projects." Then Jeff speaks with Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston about what's next for Wind West.

Following this new interview with Mo Green, we've attached Jeff's story about his visit to a GuysWork session at Millwood High School, in Middle Sackville. It first aired May 7th.

Seana Jewer is Nova Scotia Health's community engagement lead with Roots of Hope. She speaks with Jeff Douglas about the project and what it means to talk a holistic community based approach to suicide prevention.If you or someone you know is struggling here is some resources you can access:The Provincial Mental Health Crisis Line can be reached at 1-888-429-8167 or if this is an emergency call 911.NSH's Mental Health and Addictions Program's Central Intake service at 1-855-922-1122The number for Talk Suicide Canada is 1-833-456-4566.You can call or text the national suicide crisis helpline at 9-8-8.The number for Kids Help Phone is 1-800-668-6868, or you can text them at 686 868.

Nancy Saunders' son, Ben Brennan, died by suicide in 2023. He was 29 years old. Nancy shares with Jeff Douglas what her son was like and about her efforts to advocate for change in Nova Scotia's mental health.If you or someone you know is struggling here's some resources you can access:The Provincial Mental Health Crisis Line can be reached at 1-888-429-8167 or if this is an emergency call 911.NSH's Mental Health and Addictions Program's central intake service at 1-855-922-1122The number for Talk Suicide Canada is 1-833-456-4566. You can call or text the national suicide crisis helpline at 9-8-8.The number for Kids Help Phone is 1-800-668-6868, or you can text them at 686-868.

Filmmaker Bretten Hannam and lead actor Blake Alec Miranda, tell Jeff Douglas about Sk+te'kmujue'katik (At the Place of Ghosts), which is showing at the Atlantic International Film Festival.

Alex Mason drops into the Chebucto Connections office, in Spryfield, to talk with Leigh MacLean who is the organization's Outreach & Housing Director.

Joshua Saunders is a Halifax based cinematographer and documentary filmmaker. His latest work, 'Last Ride Home', is coming to the Lunenburg Doc Festival on Sept 20th. This film details the profound human cost of the Ukraine war by shining a light on the lives of volunteer medics providing aid on the frontlines, families left waiting in uncertainty and for husbands and fathers who may never return home. Alex Guye spoke with Josh. Here's that conversation.

Research done right here in the Maritimes indicates no. But there are places in the world where some kinds of sharks are drawn to aquaculture pens for some reasons. Alex Mason's interview with DFO research scientist Marc Trudel is followed by an extended version of his conversation with shark researcher Chris Harvey-Clark.

Jeff speaks with our defence columnist, Ken Hansen.

Michelle Morgan-Coole was a lawyer with a disability law practice who passionately advocated for accessibility, disability rights and inclusion. According to her obituary, she died on August 14 at the age of 59. Meig Campbell spoke to two people who knew and worked with Michelle, about who she was and the legacy she leaves behind.

Matt Hunt Gardner is a lecturer at Queen Mary University of London and a researcher at the University of Oxford. He explains why there are so many regional accents in our province and what could be putting these accents at risk.

According to numbers from the Canadian Association of Fire Chiefs, the number of volunteer firefighters have been reduced by over 2,000 since 2022. The chief of the Greenfield and District Volunteer Fire Department, Moyal Conrad, spoke with our colleague Meig Campbell about this.

Charmaine Nelson is a provost professor of art history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she runs the Slavery North Initiative. She explains the harm changing the narrative of history can cause and what the Trump's administrations push to do this signals to her.