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The fright of a lifetime: Accidentally encountering a great white shark in Canada
Dr. Chris Harvey-Clark shares his experience coming face-to-face with one of the ocean’s top predators while scuba diving near Halifax, N.S.
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Wildlife
Wildlife Wednesday: the fish fatefully divided, not by land, but by current
Plus: Death metal singing bats, the lion of the microbial world, the dino heavyweights going club-to-club, and the accidentally introduced bee threatening native species.
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Wildlife Wednesday: Baby bobcat rescued in Nova Scotia cold, wet, but alive
Plus: Mapping North America’s sea ducks, collecting Yukon’s mosquitos, celebrating Newfoundland’s pine marten success and a rebound for Antarctica’s fin whales
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Punctuation’s mark: Can we save the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale?
After a series of mass deaths in recent years, what can we do?
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People & Culture
Our Country: Jazmyn Canning and Crystal Drinkwalter on their off-grid cabin in the Maritimes
The YouTuber duo known as the Vanwives sing the praises of off-grid living in Nova Scotia
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People & Culture
Tintamarre: Inside the raucous Acadian parade in Clare, N.S.
The tintamarre showcases the vitality of the Acadian culture — and some supersized papier-mâché heads
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People & Culture
Peace by Chocolate: from Syria to Antigonish
How this small town chocolate factory in Nova Scotia is making a big impact
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People & Culture
Our Country: George Elliott Clarke
The former Canadian parliamentary poet laureate feels most grounded at Three Mile Plains, N.S.
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People & Culture
A journey through Africadia with George Elliott Clarke
Episode 26
Canada’s former Poet Laureate gives us a tour of the cultural geography of Black Nova Scotia
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ReefShip to the rescue
A new kind of concrete could help regrow depleted kelp forests off Nova Scotia’s coast
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Places
The discovery of Nova Scotia’s ancient giants
How Cape Breton’s Middle River became an unexpected treasure trove of mastodon fossils
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Environment
King tides: preparing Canada’s coastline for a future of flooding
King tides are the tipping point at which storms can become devastation — as well as a glimpse of Canada’s coastline 100 years from now. Can green infrastructure help weather the danger?
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History
L’évolution du cinéma Roseland : 75 ans après le combat de Viola Desmond contre la ségrégation
Le 8 novembre 1946, Viola Desmond est entrée dans l’histoire au cinéma Roseland. Soixante-quinze ans plus tard, le site poursuit son travail de sensibilisation auprès de la communauté.
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75 years after Viola Desmond’s stand against segregation, former theatre honours her legacy
On Nov. 8, 1946, Viola Desmond made history at the Roseland Theatre in New Glasgow, N.S. Seventy-five years later, the building’s exterior pays tribute to her life through art.
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Science & Tech
Canadian company wins multi-million dollar prize for carbon-dioxide-injected concrete
Halifax-based CarbonCure Technologies were one of two winners of the prestigious Carbon XPRIZE
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Science & Tech
Testing the future of tidal energy in Nova Scotia
In the Bay of Fundy, technicians are putting a groundbreaking new tidal technology through its paces
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Places
Our Country: Vinessa Antoine’s favourite place in Canada
The star of CBC’s Diggstown discovers Nova Scotia’s black history
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People & Culture
Paradise, a poet and promised land
Growing up black in Nova Scotia, the intense beauty of Three Mile Plains and the Annapolis Valley was, for me, a fount of emotional history
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