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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.

Most East Coast musicians lose money attending the annual ECMAs. Former ECMA CEO Blanche Israel has concerns over the amount of financial support available to artists, relative to other ECMA expenditures. She also has concerns over possible conflicts of interest. Jeff reads a statement from ECMA's board chair Michelle Eagles in response.

Terje van der Meeren is a research professor with Norway's Institute of Marine Research, the country's leading marine research organization. He explains to Alex Guye why tailings are allowed to be dumped in Norwegian fjords and about how environmental organizations are pushing back.

We learn more from Teresa Heffernan, a professor of English language and literature at St. Mary's University, about this the consequences of using AI to do your reading for you.

The Israeli government is going ahead with a controversial settlement project in West Bank. Canadian Journalist Jesse Rosenfeld provides us with an update and in what ways Canada is economically tied to the area.

Greg Morrow is the MLA for Guysborough-Tracadie and is Nova Scotia's Minister of Agriculture. He spoke with Jeff Douglas about the funding increase.

Josh Oulton is the owner of Tap Root Farms in Kings County. He told Jeff Douglas although funding is appreciated, it's too little, too late for the 2025 season.

Brittany Smith is the senior communications advisor with Halifax Water. She gives on update on the municipality's water situation.

The tennis competition takes place in Halifax at the Scotiabank Centre on Friday September 12 and Saturday September 13. A letter that went out today calling for a boycott of the Davis Cup includes academics, athletes, and coaches as signatories. Daniel Sailofsky is an assistant professor of kinesiology and a member of the University of Toronto's Jewish Faculty Network. He speaks with guest host Alex Guye about the letter and politics of sport.

Over his 40 year career, Dr. Jacques Desrosiers was one of Nova Scotia's quiet champions of reproductive rights. The Reproductive Options and Services (ROSE) Clinic was named in his honour. He passed away at the age of 71 in early July. Martha Paynter, a current affiliate scientist with the ROSE Clinic, reflects on his life and the legacy he leaves behind.

Sarah Lyon is the communications officer for the SPCA. She tells Jeff Douglas about how people can prepare to leave safely and efficiently during an evacuation with your pets.

The director of the wild blueberry research program at Dalhousie, David Percival, tells Meig Campbell just how dire the situation is for wild blueberry producers in the province.

Brian Orde, the coordinator for Annapolis Regional Emergency Management Office (REMO) and Nadine McCormick is the public information officer for Annapolis REMO give an update to Jeff Douglas.

Sheri Donovan is the general manager of the Hants County Exhibition & Fairground.

Dan Stovel is the emergency coordinator at Kings County Regional Emergency Management Organization. He tells guest host Carolyn Ray, where to begin when it comes to planning for disaster.

In Antigonish, the drought has come with a certain smell to it and the lack of water is making their wastewater treatment facility smell worse. And where there's stink, our colleague Meig Campbell will follow. Here is her conversation with the mayor of Antigonish, Sean Cameron.

Israel's security cabinet approved a plan to take control of Gaza city. Michael Lynk is a professor emeritus of law at Western University and the former UN Special Rapporteur for human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory. He shares his thoughts on this move with Jeff Douglas and gives us an update of what is happening in Gaza.

You may have noticed brown leaves falling off your trees as the drought drags on. Our colleague Meig Campbell asked Crispin Wood, manager of urban forestry for the Halifax Regional Municipality, what is happening and how this will impact the trees long term.

Tawny Stowe is a farmer at Nourishing Circles Farmstead in Oxford who experienced a blueberry crop failure recently. She tells Jeff Douglas about this and what the future might look like.

James Turk is director of the Centre for Free Expression at Toronto Metropolitan University. He tells Alex Guye about the recent deaths of Palestinian journalists in Gaza and the amount of journalists that have been killed since October 2023.

U.S. president also announced he's federalizing the local police and will launch a 'beautification" campaign that will remove homeless encampments. Robert Huish, an associate professor of International Development Studies at Dalhousie University, explains this and more to Jeff Douglas.

CBC's Jane Sponagle spoke to Kings County Mayor Dave Corkum about the future project and partnering with the town's of Wolfville and Kentville.

Julia Davids is the choirs artistic director. Joel Tranquilla is the assistant conductor. They both spoke to guest host, Alex Guye.

Dalhousie marine biology student, Geraldine Fernandez and Atlantic Shark Expeditions president, Neil Hammerschlag, tell Jeff about a great white shark encounter from earlier this week. Geraldine managed to captured an incredible photo of the shark curiously peaking out of the ocean near the tour boat.

Waggin' Wheels Mobile Dog Gym is a service in HRM that brings a mobile, indoor gym directly to your dog and provides a supervised workout for dogs on a treadmill inside a climate-controlled van. Rob Doublett met up with owner and operator Spencer Fry this morning to see the idea in action.

Founder of OCEARCH, Chris Fischer, speaks with Mainstreet's Alex Guye about the organization's current expedition in Nova Scotia working alongside the Tancook Islands Marine Field Station.

One of them is Karin Jafer. She spoke with Jeff Douglas about what this opportunity means to her.

NSCAD associate professor, April Mandrona, joins Jeff Douglas to talk about the subversive, survival mechanism that is art.

Branko Mizerit tells Jeff Douglas about his company Aerodome Canada, a new model for future food production.

Councillor Laura White, who represents Halifax South Downtown, tells Jeff Douglas her thoughts on HRM council voting to move ahead on a two-way bike lane design for Morris Street that would make the stretch one-way for car traffic.

Fatu Kaba, Vatsal Sood and Danella Calina stop by to talk about the 2025 TEDx ArgyleSt event and its theme, "Rooted in Resilience: Inspired by the Bluenoser Spirit".

There is a virtual event on this topic, Tuesday from noon to 1:30pm. It's part of a series of public talks called Emancipate Your Mind. Two of the panelists join Jeff Douglas. Here's more detail on the EYM series -- www.eventbrite.ca/e/emancipate-your-mind-a-virtual-conversation-series-tickets-1400289235799?aff=oddtdtcreator

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She tells Jeff Douglas about the letters that inspired her new book, "The Golden Daughter: My Mother's Secret Past as a Ukrainian Slave Worker in Nazi Germany." It hits store shelves August 5, and is published by Anansi Press.

Bailey Vernon tells Alex Mason about some of the more unusual flavours at her new ice cream shop, Churned, in downtown Dartmouth.

Charmaine Nelson, who runs the Slavery North Initiative, speak with Jeff Douglas.

She drops into Studio A to tell Jeff about The Women Next Door, Quoir, and the other groups they're joining on stage at St Andrew's United Church in Halifax for this Pride event.

The Senator drops into Studio A to speak with Jeff Douglas, and uses her own family's experience to illustrate what culturally responsive health care looks like. This story also includes audio from an event Mainstreet's Alex Guye recorded earlier this month, with the voices of Terry Lewis from Dal's School of Social Work, and Sue Bookchin from the Be The Peace Institute.

From the Mainstreet archives, an interview with Michael Melski from 2017, recorded just before his movie "The Child Remains" premiered at an Atlantic International Film Festival gala.

Jeff Douglas goes to City Hall.