Maritime Noon from CBC Radio (Highlights)

Your thoughts on upcoming changes to Employment Insurance, and the federal finance minister's suggestion that there's no such thing as a bad job. Plus, an orthopedic surgeon takes your questions about knee and hip replacements.

Retailers fight federal legislation that gives workers Monday off instead of Canada Day Sunday. Genealogist Terry Punch helps you trace your family tree. Plus, speaking out against homophobia.

Grand Manan residents debate whether to push the province for free ferry service. Plus, our dog behaviour expert answers your questions.

Tourism ministers from across Canada are meeting in Saint John: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and PEI's tourism ministers join us for a chat. How to get your bike in tip top shape this spring. And Halifax hosts the first ever Open City this weekend.

The federal government's get-tough on crime agenda is causing real problems for a Nova Scotia man trying to rebuild his life. The author of "Ecoholic Body" takes your calls. And feedback on vandalism.

Death rates are down for the 4 main cancers in the country but numbers are still proportionally high in the Maritimes. Feedback on pensions for mill workers and Liberal/NDP merger. How vandalism affects us all and what can be done. And some thoughts on the 20th anniversary of the Westray mining disaster.

The Nova Scotia government plans to bring in a law aimed at helping former paper plant workers in Port Hawkesbury. The bill is modelled after a similar law in New Brunswick. Should the left unite in Ottawa? Scott Brison and Peter Stoffer weigh in. And before the Titanic was the Lusitania.

William Swinimer is allowed back to school today but his father is keeping him at home. Meanwhile, the school is hosting a discussion on the issue prompted by his religious t-shirt. And Doug Bethune takes calls about car trouble.

A call for stronger legislation that would give police the power to deal with cyberbullies. Your feedback on a student who was suspended for wearing a religious t-shirt to school and our plumbing expert takes your calls.

A high school student in Chester Basin, Nova Scotia has been suspended for wearing a t-shirt with a religious message. MLAs in Nova Scotia are being forced to put down their blackberries during Question Period. And we're kicking off the gardening season with Marjorie Willison.

After a marathon court case, a jury has cleared former Saint John city councillor John Ferguson of defaming managers of the city pension board. And we hear from women who are working in the trades.

The Nova Scotia government is moving more than 100 jobs out of Halifax in an effort to spread the wealth to rural areas. Jurors in Saint John are being asked to decide whether a former city councillor is guilty of defamation. And your ideas on how to spend your tax return.

Fishermen in southwestern Nova Scotia voted on Sunday to stay ashore in order to drive up the price of lobster. Questions you've always wanted to ask about your doctor... Your feedback on new cellphone laws, as well as a few jokes.

The Nova Scotia government is introducing legislation to protect consumers from being gouged when they cancel a cell phone contract. A protest over a highway update has tensions running high in the PEI legislature. Your best, funniest (or pun-iest) jokes. Plus, feedback on wasting food.

Plans to update a highway in Bonshaw, PEI draw protest. Your feedback on whether cell phones should be used in classrooms. We chat about food waste and tips to avoid it. A parking lot attendant at the IWK in Halifax lightens cancer patients' days with jokes.