Maritime Noon from CBC Radio (Highlights)
Summary: Maritime Noon is a one-hour program devoted to delivering informative reports and interviews which explore issues that are of interest to Maritimers.
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Podcasts:
The RCMP is fined more than half a million dollars for failing its officers, during a Moncton shooting that left three Mounties dead. Your feedback on marijuana use in rental units. On the phone in: our home reno panel takes your questions.
School boards are being dissolved in N.S. It's a decision that one board member says will affect communities. You weigh in on boiling lobsters. On the phone in: Some landlords want to ban all marijuana smoking in rental units. What do you think?
The premier of P.E.I. joins the debate over an effluent treatment plan at Northern Pulp's Pictou mill. On the phone in: food to keep your brain healthy. A Digby, N.S., man hopes for help to pay for an expensive cancer drug.
Recommendation to eliminate English-language school boards in Nova Scotia, Feedback on beer can featuring noose in its artwork, Phone-on on whether lobsters feel pain when being cooked
Call for a beer can image featuring a tree with a noose to be changed but owner says complaints of racism are unfounded, Paint expert Jim White takes calls.
A Sydney man waiting for a medically assisted death finally gets a date. Your thoughts on charging tax on meat to reduce consumption. Wildlife expert Bob Bancroft takes your calls.
A Sydney man was approved for a medically assisted death, but the date he picked has come and gone. Your thoughts on incentives to buy electric cars. On the phone in: will taxing meat encourage people to eat less?
Halifax protest calling for higher minimum wage, Feedback on banning plastic bags, Phone-in on electric car subsidies
Halifax councillor proposes a ban on plastic shopping bags, feedback on Justin Trudeau's performance as prime minister, Phone-in on winter hiking, Cape Breton house damaged by man in front-loader
Cattle rescued from NB farm hit by weekend floods, River ice breaks up and leaves fishing shacks floating away, Phone-in on Justin Trudeau's performance so far
Remembering the students killed in the Bathurst van crash 10 years ago, Lemon-Aid co-author George Iny takes calls about new and used cars, Feedback on obscure words
Same-sex couple want SIN application form changed to include same sex parents, Feedback on free speech, Phone-in on reviving obscure English words
Zookeepers at Cherry Brook Zoo in Saint John say there are ways the city can support the zoo, without spending money. On the phone in: we look back at the year in news.
Professor argues that controversial topics need to be debated as part of free speech even if they are condemned as racist, Phone-in on the art of apology, Mother of autistic child questions the PM about a national autism strategy
A Nova Scotia family, struggling to help their 9-year-old son with autism, hopes to call on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for help. On the phone in: should governments cover the cost of a new shingles vaccine?