Information Morning Cape Breton with Steve Sutherland & David Burke

The strongest, fastest and highest jumping students in the province will be descending on Sydney soon for the track and field championships for the first time ever. Two of the organizers tell us about it.  (runs 7:27)

Two consultants have been tasked with the job of selling Sydney harbour. Gordon Forsyth is a shipping industry consultant from New Jersey, and here is part of a presentation he made at the annual Ports Day in Sydney.  (runs 7:34)

Meet the leaders of the future... they made the top of our class... and now, they've been chosen as inaugural members of the Information Morning Honour Roll. The inductees are... announced.  (runs 9:15)

The garden of the sea... and sex & gluttony in Delaware Bay. All this in Part 2 of our conversation with Harry Thurston about his new book, "The Atlantic Coast: A Natural History".  (runs 10:27)

The Cape Breton District Health Authority is proposing a prescription for ER closures in New Waterford. Reporter Wendy Martin tells us what the community thinks of a mobile collaborative emergency centre for the area.  (runs 8:55)

How much will it hurt? ACOA is cutting core funding to regional development agencies. Blaine Gillis is CEO of the Strait-Highlands Regional Development Agency, he explains what the cuts mean for their agency.  (runs 10:17)

On "Then and Now"... Part 3 from our "Evening with Jim St. Clair". Jim takes questions from the audience and explains the naming of Egypt Road, plus, the origins of the Boularderie Academy in the concluding excerpt.  (runs 14:11)

The Strait-Highlands Regional Development Agency and the Cape Breton County Economic Development Authority, or CB-CEDA, will be affected when ACOA withdraws its core operational funding to such groups next year. We ask Bernard Valcourt, the federal minister responsible for ACOA, about the cuts.  (runs 10:45)

Love on the beach... "the collision coast"... and other tales from the shoreline as we tackle the geology, history, and ecology of the Atlantic Coast with Harry Thurston, author of "The Atlantic Coast: A Natural History".  (runs 10:08)

Family doctors are feeling overloaded in Inverness and people are filling up the outpatient department on routine visits. We find out how the municipal advisory committee is trying to diagnose the problem and come up with a prescription for it.  (runs 6:23)