Hockey Sticks

Jenna Clow, 13, from Stratford, PEI, wants to know which hockey stick lasts the longest and is the most durable. Street Cents gets a hockey team in Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia to test some popular hockey sticks and pick a winner.

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West 49

Erin Trezise, 15, from Newmarket, Ontario is disgusted with a West 49 ad in Snowboard Magazine that showed two cartoon women with bare breasts. She loves to snowboard and says the creators of this ad should be ashamed at the way it portrays female snowboarders.

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Ecstasy

It’s known as E, XTC, Adam, Euphoria, X, Love Doves, and the Hug Drug. These days, Ecstasy is more popular than any other designer drug in Canada. It’s been at raves for a long time. Now, it’s popping up at house parties, on the streets and in suburban neighbourhoods. But is it the “safe drug” we think it is? Street Cents takes a closer look at the drug Ecstasy.

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Tattoo Care

Alexis Klenc, 19, from Halifax, Nova Scotia says her friend recently came home with a new tattoo. But, her friend wasn’t given proper tattoo care instructions. Alexis gives advice on what to look for in a tattoo artist and how to treat a new tattoo.

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Jacques Arsenault

Jacques Arsenault shows Street Cents how he uses his accordian skills to make money.


Homestead

Adam Roher, 14, from Halifax, Nova Scotia has a beef with Homestead.com. He created a website on the Homestead server free of charge. Now, Homestead wants to charge him to keep the website. If he doesn't pay up, he loses his site. What should he do?

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CD Pressing

Time for your band to make a CD? It can be a lot of work and could cost mucho dinero. Street Cents sends host Darryl Kyte on a search for a cheap CD pressing plant and ways to save cash on CD packaging.

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Streeters

How do you expand your mind?




It's not hard to find a tablet of 'E' these days.  Not only are they at raves, but people are selling them at schools, parties and shopping malls. Is it the 'safe drug' users think it is? This week on Street Cents, we take a closer look at the drug Ecstasy.












Taping an episode of Street Cents makes our hosts very hungry.
Connie and Kim fight for the last chip on set.



Kim has some fun with the digi-cam, while Darryl watches a game of curling in the control room.









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