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Halifax teacher Andrew Stickings has been nominated for the Governor General's award for teaching history at Grovener Wentworth Park School. Stephanie dropped by his classroom. Listen to the Interview (runs: 6:58 | realaudio)

Mainstreet dropped in on a family that is turning the idea of a 100 mile diet into something that looks more like a 10 mile diet. Listen to the Interview (runs: 10:15 | realaudio)

Find out what a local pastor is doing to stop the violence in Halifax. Listen to the interview. (runs: 14:04 | realaudio)

The New Rural Nova Scotia
Listen to a series of profiles on people who have found creative ways to sustain life outside of the major urban centres, despite the challenges of crumbling infrastructure.

• We begin with a story about a farmer in Tatamagouche. Yuill Herbert moonlights as a sustainability consultant with clients across the country. Listen to the interview. (runs: 7:24 | realaudio)
  
  
• Find out how Jesse Watson manages to build and sell skateboards from an old building in La Have on the south shore. Listen to the interview. (runs: 10:13 | realaudio)
  
  
• Meet Garnet McLaughlin at his home in Economy. He's found a way to sustain life in the country -- through a unique trail building business. Listen to the interview. (runs: 8:17 | realaudio)
  
  
• We speak with the owner of an internationally acclaimed video game company in Lunenburg. Find out how Jeremy Wellard makes his business work in a town of 2,000 people. Listen to the interview. (runs: 8:38 | realaudio)
  
  
• Moving beyond the long commutes and unreliable power. Find out what it means to run an organic landscaping business in rural Nova Scotia. Listen to the interview. (runs: 9:18 | realaudio)

Thinking Outside the Classroom
More and more Nova Scotian families are choosing to avoid packing the bag lunches... waiting for the school bus... and shuffling textbooks every time the bell rings. They're staying out of the public education system entirely -- and giving homeschooling a try. Listen to our series:

• Meet a group of homeschoolers who mark Labour Day by heading down to Kejimkujik National Park for an adventure in the great outdoors. Listen to the interview. (runs: 7:18 | realaudio)
• From train trips across the country to tending to the animals in the backyard. Find out what a day in the life is for a homeschooling family from Tatamagouche. Listen to the interview. (runs: 8:07 | realaudio)
• From the practical to the spiritual. We scan the province to get a sense of the variety of reasons people choose to homeschool. Listen to the interview. (runs: 16:08 | realaudio)
• A homeschooling mom tackles some misconceptions about homeschooling. Listen to the interview. (runs: 6:07 | realaudio)
• We zero in on the key criticism that comes up time and time again in response to homeschooling... and that's socialization. Two homeschoolers put their social skills to the test. Listen to the interview. (runs: 9:31 | realaudio)
• An advocate for the public school system responds to our "Thinking Outside the Classroom" series. Hear what the President of the Canadian Teachers' Federation has to say in defense of public education. Listen to the interview. (runs: 7:55 | realaudio)

Remembering Michael Schaus. Meet the family of a competitive paddler who died before his time. Listen to the story. (runs: 9:28 | realaudio)

"Surf's up" and so is the cost of buying a board. Blair Sanderson checks out a unique program on the Eastern shore that helps teenagers build their own. Listen to the report (runs: 8:39 | realaudio)

Throwing the gang colours away. Meet a group of people who are committed to helping kids escape a life on the street. Mainstreet profiles the Youth Advocate Program. Listen to the debrief. (runs: 9:38 | realaudio)

Find out how the neighbours feel about the seemingly endless construction project on Fenwick Street in Halifax. Listen to the debrief. (runs: 9:22 | realaudio)

Hear about a hip hop performance at Cole Harbour High... and the possibility that rap, breakdancing and graffiti art can help teens move away from violence. Listen to the interview. (runs: 7:01 | realaudio)

The Nova Scotia Community College's Waterfront Campus is expanding. It's newest building, the Centre for the Built Environment, is slated to open in September next year. It will boast all sorts of environmentally friendly features. But one will be particularly noticeable from the outside.  An external bio-wall with living plants growing all over it. Mainstreet's Meredith Dault has the story. Listen to the Interview (runs: 6:12 | realaudio)

Dominique Gusset goes out of her way to clean up the garbage at the side of the road. But she says she shouldn't have to. She wants the city to make it easier for people to properly dispose of their waste. Nina Corfu has the story. Listen to the debrief. (runs: 9:52 | realaudio)

Listen as we inflict the third degree on an unsuspecting comedian. He was the voice of a furball Christmas present that you couldn't feed after midnight. He nearly drove Mel Brooks crazy as the radar technician in Spaceballs. He even sailed on the Love Boat for three episodes. But Michael Winslow will forever be remembered as MotorMouth Jones: the human sound effects machine from the Police Academy movies. Listen to the interview. (runs: 6:07 | realaudio)

Author John Ralston Saul was in Halifax lately talking about his new book "A Fair Country: Telling Truths About Canada" and he found himself in the Mainstreet studio. Listen to the interview (runs: 16:44 | realaudio)

George Ellliot Clarke has been singled out for literary prizes from the homegrown to the worldly.  These days, George Elliot Clarke teaches at the University of Toronto.
But when he was back in Nova Scotia for a number of readings from his new book, a verse-novel called I&I, he sat down for a chat about home with Stephanie. Listen to the Interview (runs: 13:31 | realaudio)

In 1909, American explorer Robert Peavey was the first and fastest to make it the North Pole. A century later British explorer Tom Avery set out to re-create that trek. Avery spoke to Stephanie on Mainstreet. Listen to the Interview (runs: 8:59 | realaudio)

Julia McMillan was in the SUV Terry Naugle is alleged to have hit... here's her side of the rehabilitiation story. Listen to the interview. (runs: 6:47 | realaudio)

Danny Graham is a Halifax lawyer who advises governments in Canada and abroad on justice policies. He continues our discussion on  the limits of rehabilitation. Listen to the interview. (runs: 11:35 | realaudio)

The case of a serial drunk driver raises questions about the limits of rehabilitation. Listen to the interview (runs: 8:59 | realaudio)

Thursday March 19th, 2009 was the day that Peter Duffy saw his last column appear in the Chronicle Herald. That day Stephanie spoke to the veteran writer about what may well be his legacy. A column about his "Night Demon". Listen to the interview (runs: 8:39 | realaudio)

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