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New leader of Northumberland health team shares her experience and perspective

The full interview: In the next two years, potentially 25,000 people living in Northumberland County could be without a doctor or some other form of primary care. That is a warning my guest delivered during this interview.

Day of Mourning commemorates 20th anniversary of Westray Mine disaster legislation

The full interview In 1996, 26 workers in the Westray mine in Plymouth, Nova Scotia, lost their lives. In 2004, after a lengthy battle, unions successfully lobbied the federal government to make corporations criminally liable for workplace deaths and injuries.

The future of unmarked burials discovered in Alderville, plus a path toward an Indigenous police force

Across Canada, First Nations are using ground-penetrating radar to uncover the burials of children near residential schools. In 2021, Alderville conducted its radar probes on a site near the Alderville United Church (formerly Wesleyan Methodist) on Second Line Road.

Internationally renowned Canadian journalist shares stories of women and children facing war and oppression.

The show: The full interview with bonus material: The Canadian Federation of University Women in Belleville is hosting a community event with Sally Armstrong on Saturday, April 27. She is an internationally renowned Canadian journalist, author, documentary filmmaker, and human rights activist.

Merger of two health units moves ahead as application for funding submitted to province, says CEO

The show: The full interview with bonus material: Peterborough Public Health and the Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit voted to merge voluntarily recently. The Ontario government's funding offer spurred them on, so the official request went in at the beginning of April.