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Power politics - Stephanie Domet quizzes the major parties

Find out what the NDP, Liberals, and PCs want to do to the electrical grid, and your power bill.

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Oh my gourd!

Man in Kentville recognized by the Great Pumpkin Commonwealth for growing the world's longest gourd. Fred Ansems speaks with Mainstreet's Stephanie Domet.

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High school student says candidate disappointed audience...

...and she got the impression the reverse was also true. Mainstreet's Stephanie Domet talks to Phoebe Lamb.

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David Lisak on non-stranger rape

Stephanie interviews one of the leading experts on non-stranger rape in the United States. David Lisak talks about what he's learned from the hundreds of interviews he's conducted with men who have raped people they know.

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Student Votes

CBC's Natalie Dobbin visits elementary school students at St. Joseph's - Alexander McKay in Halifax, who are learning about the electoral process. It's all part of a national program called Student Vote, which creates an election experience for future vot

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lessons learned while teaching in Canada's Arctic

An excerpt from Stephanie's conversation with Nick Newbery. He's giving three public talks about life in the Arctic at the NS Museum of Natural History. The first is at 2pm Sunday September 29.

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Our oceans guy on innovation and hope in the oceans

Boris Worm talks with Mainstreet's Stephanie Domet about things that make him feel hopeful about the future of the oceans.

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Pull the goalie, or pull the ad?

A Dartmouth woman says her "inner feminist is losing her ever-loving mind" after she received a flyer from the lease-to-own company easyhome. The flyer features a female wearing goalie pads, a hockey helmet, and little else.

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Dartmouth boyhood inspired underwater horror short film

Jason Eisener talks to Mainstreet's Stephanie Domet about One Last Dive. Link to video at cbc.ca/mainhfx

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Mainstreet listeners on how politicians can earn their votes

Stephanie Domet opens the phone lines to ask how you'll decide who to vote for. More politics at cbc.ca/mainhfx

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Modern day explorer Mike Horn

He has sailed around the world, swam the Amazon River, and trekked to the North Pole during the 24-hour-a-day dark of winter. Now he's in Halifax. Stephanie interviews one of the world's greatest living explorers, Mike Horn.

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provincial politics: public education, and teachers' pension fund

Mainstreet's Stephanie Domet talks with political sympathizers Ross Haynes, Maura Ryan, and Richard Starr. More politics at cbc.ca/mainhfx

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provincial politics: ER closures, and the CRA poll

Stephanie talks politics with David Wallbridge, Mary Clancy, and Rob Batherson.

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police beat poetry from the Annapolis Valley

Stephanie talks to Wendy Elliot and Andrea Schwenke Wyile about the ways they've refashioned police incident reports.

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Paul Bennett on dueling education promises

We hear about a couple education announcements from politicians, and then Stephanie talks with education consultant Paul Bennett.

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What parents need to know about the Cyber Safety Act

Stephanie asks Nova Scotia's Education Minister and lawyer David Fraser about parents' liability for kids' bullying.

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Explaining The Iraq War

Stephanie talks with award-winning political scientist Frank Harvey, about lessons from the war in Iraq, and what they can tell us about the crisis in Syria.

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Costs of raising children

A couple of local parents tell us whether they agree with the Fraser Institute's report that says you don't need more than about $4,500 a year to raise a child.

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Deputy Police Chief on Marijuana Tickets

The Deputy Chief of the Halifax Regional Police, Bill Moore, talks to us about all of the marijuana headlines in the news this week -- and what it would mean for Halifax if officers could issue tickets instead of charges.

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Costs of Parenting

The Fraser Institute has released a report that says it can cost $3000-$4500 per year to raise a child. Two local parents, Alex Smith and Penelope Jackson, give their take on that research.

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PPP Panel: Public figures, public apologies

A poet, a pastor and a philosopher play the blame game and take on the issue of personal responsibility and public figures.

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Election in the air (still?)

Rumours that a provincial election call could come at any minute have been swirling for at least three months. Our spinbusters Barbara Emodi, Michelle Coffin and Mike Kydd weigh in.

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NS's youngest registered farmer

Move over Old MacDonald: there's a new farmer in town. Meet Nova Scotia's youngest farmer, 14-year-old Thian Carman.

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Missing the mark?

Two women who write ads weigh in on two controversial campaigns: Mic Mac Mall's back-to-school campaign, and the Nova Scotia government sponsored "Ask" ads around consent.

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Cecilia Greyson on Brother's Arrest

One of the Canadians who has been arrested in Cairo has two family members watching events unfold from Halifax. Jackie Torrens speaks to John Greyson's sister Cecilia.

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Homos in Herstory

Elvis Bakaitis is in Halifax from Brooklyn, NY, to work on a zine about queer history in the 1980s -- part of a series of zines called Homos in Herstory. Elvis chats with Jackie Torrens about that project.

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Is Halifax's future downtown, or around the suburban beltway?

Tim Olive, Sue Uteck, Brenden Sommerhalder, Sheila Fougere, Walter Regan, and Denise MacDonell talk about whether we should keep a tight focus on revitalizing downtown.

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Red Hood Project calls on Facebook to do more to protect kids

Sandy Garossino tells Mainstreet's Stephanie Domet Facebook isn't doing enough to protect kids from predators and bullying.

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Is there underappreciated potential in Halifax's urban sprawl?

Michael Poulton tells Mainstreet's Stephanie Domet we focus too much on downtown Halifax. (extended cut)

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Ian Brown on the dilemma of making the private public

Jackie Torrens interviews award winning author and journalist Ian Brown. He was in Halifax to speak at the University of King's College and read from his book, The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Search for his Disabled Son.

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Cathy Jones on the legacy of CODCO

Jackie Torrens' interview with Cathy Jones, about the 40th anniversary of the East Coast comedy troupe CODCO.

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What happened in shark class today?

Guest host Jackie Torrens talks with our oceans guy, Boris Worm, and one of the students in a shark class at Dalhousie University.

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Rules for exotic snakes in Nova Scotia

We hear a bit from a local man who worked with the python believed to have killed children in Campbellton. Then Jackie Torrens talks to Nova Scotia's Director of Wildlife.

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Close encounter with a great white shark

Captain Bill Flower, who runs Lunenburg Ocean Adventures, says he hooked a Great white shark while fishing south of Cross Island. The shark got away before he could reel it in, or take a photo. He shares his story with Katy Parsons.

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Rocky Jones' daughter Tracy on his life and legacy

Tracy Jones-Grant talks with Mainstreet's guest host Jackie Torrens.

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Just back from a day on the water tagging sharks

Guest host Jackie Torrens talks to an instructor and two students from Dalhousie University, after a day on the water tagging sharks.

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Traitor's Daughter

We bring you the story of Agnes Spicer, Russia's only warbride to come through through Pier 21. She was a Red Army soldier, a concentration camp survivor, and a mother with many secrets. Her daughter is now making a documentary about her life. Tune in for

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El Jones and Carolann Wright-Parks on black activism

Guest host Jackie Torrens and her guests talk about what was accomplished during Rocky Jones' era, and what the young activists he inspired need to do next.

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Memories of Rocky Jones

George Elliot Clarke, Micha Smith and Quentrel Provo share memories of Rocky Jones with Jackie Torrens.

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To Vote or Not To Vote

Allison Sparling and Sherri Bain join Stephanie Domet to discuss political involvement beyond the ballot box.

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Genderfication

Stephanie Domet looks at the "pinkification" and "broification" of our culture.

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Our oceans guy on warmer than usual ocean waters

Boris Worm tells Stephanie the ocean around us is warmer than usual, and Dalhousie University has a website to help put anecdotal observations in context.

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Councillor Waye Mason on Nova Centre design changes

Mainstreet host Stephanie Domet talks to Waye Mason, councillor for District 7.

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Barbara Pike and Gretchen Fitzgerald on the Link approval

Mainstreet's Stephanie Domet talks with a proponent and a critic of the Maritime Link, approved with conditions by the UARB.

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Truro projects try to manage flood risk

Stephanie talks with Truro's Director of Public Works, Andrew MacKinnon.

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Meet members of The Versatile Architects slam poetry team

Stephanie talks with Bushra El-Falah, Andre Fenton, Brandon MacDougall, and Jacques Robear Asselin.

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A queer woman tackles country music

Stephanie talks with playwright Lee-Anne Poole about the show she's performing at the Queer Acts Theatre Festival.

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Art Gallery of NS chief currator on Alex Colville's legacy

Mainstreet host Stephanie Domet talks with Sarah Fillmore.

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Our technician Jake amps up his caffeine intake

Stephanie checks in with Jake a couple times, as he samples some caffeinated products he doesn't usually use.

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The risks of consuming too much caffeine

Mainstreet host Stephanie Domet talks to Dr Michael Rieder.

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How teen fashion magazines almost wrecked my teens

Aisha Sommer Zaman's play Seventeen debuts Thursday at 6pm at the Bus Stop Theatre in Halifax.

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Mr Speaker, Mr Speaker, Mr Speaker

Mainstreet's host asks the Speaker of the Nova Scotia Legislature why MLAs love saying his name.

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Sexual assault survivor: perpetrators deserve all the blame

Mainstreet host Stephanie Domet talks with Sherri Bain of the group Safety For Our Sisters.

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Was there a reign of terror at Nicole Ryan's house, or no?

Law prof Archie Kaiser talks to Mainstreet's host about the findings of the Public Complaints Commission in the Nicole Ryan case.

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Our oceans guy on rowing across the Atlantic

Boris Worm talks to Stephanie about what Mylene Paquette is likely to see rowing across the Atlantic, and how her trip would have been different a hundred or five-hundred years ago.

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Foundation: need to change attitudes toward sexual assault

Stephanie talks with Anuradha Dugal, Director of Violence Prevention at the Canadian Women's Foundation.

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Sexual assault attitudes survey

Mainstreet host Stephanie Domet asks people in Halifax a list of questions used in a national survey commissioned by the Canadian Women's Foundation.

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First-hand account of boat rescue in Pictou Harbour

Mainstreet host Stephanie Domet talks to Constable Bryce Haight and Captain David McCarthy.

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A poet, a pastor and a philospher on visiting aging parents

Stephanie talks with Bill Wood, Roy Ellis, and Sue Goyette about the Chinese law under which people can sue their kids for not visiting often enough.

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