Radio Noon
with Ramona Dearing

We join on phone Scott Mercer, President of NAPE Local 6207 as he demonstrates with other NAPE workers in front of St. Clare's Hospital.

Labrador Affairs Minister Nick McGrath says No to inquiry. He says there's no need for an inquiry into the Burton Winters tragedy. Richard Rogers is a lawyer experienced with inquiries. He joins us on phone.

Crosstalk: Kruger's been asking whether the paper mill in Corner Brook can survive. We're asking Corner Brook's future is on the line if the mill closes. Phone in with your thoughts. Ramona's guest is Corner Brook city councillor Gary Kelly.

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We've reached Gary Gosine, the Mayor of Bell Island.

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Corner Brook is more than a Mill Town. Charles Pender is the Director of the Grenfell Secretariat and the co-ordinater of the Campus City Committee. We've reached him by phone.

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Crosstalk: A recent review says Eastern Health is one of the most inefficient health care providers in the country. So the health board is cutting jobs and trying to save money. On Radio Noon Crosstalk we're asking "Are there inefficiencies at Eastern Health?" Ramona's guest is Liberal Opposition Leader Dwight Ball.

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A journalist talks about his investigation into observers aboard Portuguese and Spanish vessels.

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 Guest Host John Furlong speaks with Woodrow French, Mayor of the rapidly growing Town of Conception Bay South.

 

Radio Noon Archives: This week our Audio Archivist Christine Davies will be here to talk about the 1892 Great Fire that destroyed much of the city.

 

Crosstalk: We're all about landscaping on this show. Whether you're looking to work more edible plants in amongst your shrubs or whether you're looking for advice on putting in a fountain or you're looking for advice on trees that won't overgrow their sites. Jeanette French of Daisy Design http://daisydesign.ca/ will be in studio, along with Mark Bowering of Bowering Gardens.  http://www.boweringgardens.com/.

 

 

 

 

 

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(Pic.. Downtown Pharmacy had taken partin the Methadone reolacemnet porgram for recvoering addicts) We're joined by Don Rowe, the Secretary Registrar of the Newfoundland and Labrador Pharmacy Board.

It's hard hard times recruiting a church organist these days. Reverend John Watton at St. Martin's Anglican Cathedral in Gander joins us on phone. http://www.ourcommunion.org/ 

Here is a sampling of the St. Martin's Anglican Cathedral organ. 

Crosstalk: We've got CBC broadcaster Shelagh Rogers coming into studio, along with psychiatrist Nizar Ladha. Shelagh's getting an honourary doctorate from Memorial University, in part for her work to raise awareness about depression. We're asking if we're making progress when it comes to to the illness.

First, we open the phone-lines to find out what you think of the upcoming changes to EI. Our Guest is the Mayor of Harbour Breton Eric Skinner. (pictured left)

  

Then during the regular Crosstalk slot we have Transportation Minister Tom Hedderson in studio. We're asking what you would do to prevent collisions with moose on our roads.

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Nova Scotia MP Peter McKay defends changes to the EI program and fisherman Jack Troake rejects it as "more of the same from Ottawa".

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M-P Gerry Bryne on whether there's bad blood between him and the Mayor of St. Anthony Ernest Simms.

 

 

Cricket revival. (Pic Courtesy of Canada Cricket http://www.canadacricket.com/nlcricket/) If you're looking for a new sport to try out, consider cricket. It used to be very popular here, and now there's a revival underway. Ashwin Gupta is the secretary of the board of directors for Cricket Newfoundland and Labrador.  

 

Crosstalk: We're asking if there's racism in Nfld and Lab. There's certainly been a lot of controversy this week, after some ugly comments about Labrador Innu were posted on Facebook. Ramona's guests are educator Kanani Davis and Remzi Cej, the chair of the NL Human Rights Commission.

Call in with your thoughts and experiences.

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Roxanne Notley is the executive director of the Southeastern Aurora Development Corporation in Labrador. We've reached her in Port Hope Simpson. Linda Randell is executive director of the Nordic Economic Development Corporation on the Northern Peninsula. We've reached her in Roddickton. http://www.nlreda.ca/ 

TA Loeffler has made two attempts at climbing Mount Everest. So when she heard about the climbing tragedy on the weekend, she had goosebumps. We've got TA Loeffler on the line for her thoughts. http://taloeffler.com/ 

Crosstalk: There's lots on the go in Nfld and Lab: including the closure of the Maritime Rescue Sub-Centre in St. John's, along with other federal cuts, and the on-going calls for an inquiry into Burton Winters' death. Our question for you: Are our politicians speaking up enough for Nfld and Lab? Ramona's guest is Russell Wangersky, the editorial page editor with The Telegram newspaper. http://www.thetelegram.com/ 

Call in with your thoughts.

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Northern Gulf cod quotas in 4-R have been reduced by 25 percent.

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