• Spinbusters: we need to stop paying attention to Trump (even though Chris read 'Art Of The Deal')
    Feb 3 2025

    Barbara Emodi, Michelle Coffin, and Chris Lydon speak with host Jeff Douglas. About two-thirds of the way through their conversation, they find out the Trump tariffs have been paused for thirty days.

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    33 mins
  • New Mi'kmaw regalia exhibit at the Treaty Space Gallery opens today
    Feb 3 2025

    Amalkewinu'k (The Dancers) explores the evolution of Mi'kmaw regalia. Aaron Prosper and Mackenzie Pardy are the folks behind the exhibit. Aaron stopped by the studio to share the details with Jeff Douglas.


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    12 mins
  • Interfaith Harmony Week begins Saturday February 1st
    Jan 31 2025

    Three guests stop by the studio to talk about Interfaith Harmony Week, its events and what they are looking forward to at this year's celebration.

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    12 mins
  • Nova Scotian man hosts session at fourth National Black Canadians Summit in Montreal
    Jan 31 2025

    Alfred Burgesson, the founder and CEO of Tribe Network, tells host Jeff Douglas about his session called 'Black Futures' at this year's National Black Canadians Summit.

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    8 mins
  • Hear about the results of a gender-based violence survey conducted in the Annapolis Valley
    Jan 29 2025

    Wendy Knowlton is the gender-based violence project coordinator with the Women's Place Resource Centre in Kingston. She tells guest host Preston Mulligan about the survey and what's next now that the results have been shared.

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    11 mins
  • Shelley Thompson on how she made her series Translations, and how the mom in her feels about Trump
    Jan 29 2025

    The filmmaker, writer, and actor Shelley Thompson has a new series, called Translations, with six episodes all shot here in Nova Scotia. Mainstreet's producer Alex Mason called her to talk about it, and about the political climate in which it's now going to air.


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    12 mins
  • David Deane on the memes (and extremism and violence) that followed the rise of the printing press
    Jan 28 2025

    Jeff Douglas speaks with David Deane, a Catholic theologian and an associate prof at the Atlantic School of Theology, in Halifax. He's studied how people thought and acquired knowledge before the printing press.


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    22 mins
  • What was the Auschwitz death camp, and what does the memory of it mean eighty yeas after its liberation?
    Jan 27 2025

    Jeff Douglas speaks with Jody Spiegel, director of the Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program at the Azriel Foundation, and chair of the education working group for the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance and a Canadian delegate to the Alliance.


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    16 mins