  | | |  | | | Hello from guest contributor, Santiago Guzmán | I was very lucky to know at the age of eight that I wanted to perform for the rest of my life. My future seemed so clear then. Although I was certain about my love for theatre, social judgment kept me from pursuing my dream of becoming a full-time artist.
Unsolicited opinions haunted me: “How are you going to pay your bills?”, “That’s not a job, it’s a hobby!”, “You are too smart to do theatre.”
At age eighteen, l confronted them: “I don’t care what you think, I am going to theatre school. Oh, and I’m moving to Newfoundland!”
“Where is Newfoundland?”, I was asked in return, confused. I could only shrug while I packed my bags in haste, excited about the bright future ahead of me. | | | | | Contributor picks: | | | | | | | |  | There’s another cost to the warming climate in Labrador. For Rutie Lampe, it’s the close ties between the sea ice and well-being in remote Nain.
Lampe, now an elder and mental health co-ordinator with the Nunatsiavut government, grew up in fishing camps. Living off the day’s bounty is how she was raised and taught. | | | | | | | |  | | | Cabbage is "a little gift" from the universe that far too many Canadians are overlooking, according to a P.E.I. woman who created a cabbage cookbook out of the pandemic lockdowns.
"It's both sweet and a little acidic. It tastes good on your tongue. It's cheap. It's full of vitamins," said Ann Thurlow, a retired CBC broadcaster and writer in Charlottetown. | | | | | | | |  | | | CBC gets an inside look at a technical rehearsal at Moncton's Capitol Theatre and sits down with co-directors Igor Dobrovolskiy and Possesom Paul along with composer Jeremy Dutcher. | | | | | | | |  | | | I cracked open a can of my favourite small-batch beer, poured the creamy golden liquid into a chilled glass and sat down with someone close to me to share my plan to open a brewery. And that's when I was asked the question I've been most self-conscious about ever since I decided to leave my career as a speech language pathologist.
"Are you even allowed to do this?" | | | | | | | |  | | | Moms are still giving up record-high numbers of working days to care for their families, according to Statistics Canada, and therapists say burnout is becoming more common. CBC Newfoundland’s Caroline Hillier talks to one workplace about how it supports working moms. | | | | | | | |  | | | When Karen Anderson Ferron agreed to follow her husband Al's lifelong dream of starting a farm, she didn't imagine she'd have to put her corporate marketing skills to use from the very beginning.
This time she wasn't making cold calls as a fundraiser, as she had in Toronto, but making calls to gather the information needed to get their farm in New Brunswick up and running. | | | | | | | |  | | | There were many reasons I wanted to start this audio series. For one thing, although there are many disability-related podcasts, many of the ones I've come across are hosted by people on the West Coast. I felt given the fact that 30 per cent of Nova Scotians, 15 years and older, identify as having a disability, it is very important that our perspective also be part of the media landscape. | | | | | | | |  | | | An Island-based artist is hoping his new exhibit will prompt art lovers to look at life differently. Niyi Adeogun's latest exhibit features portraits of Black people mixed with nature scenes.
The artist, who moved to Prince Edward Island from Nigeria in 2016, said the pieces in his new exhibit show Black people in a scene where their value and beauty are centre stage. | | | | | | | |  | | | After a blistering few days of debates, the Canada Reads 2023 winner has been crowned.
Jeopardy! star Mattea Roach has won Canada Reads 2023. In an emotional finale, the book they championed, Kate Beaton's 2022 graphic memoir Ducks, survived the elimination vote on March 30, 2023. | | | | | Listen | | Jessica Doria-Brown recounts the story of Craig Mackie's final weeks, and his decision to talk openly about his decision for medical assistance in dying. The Living Wake is a moving story about facing death, but also how to live life. - from Island Morning | | Listen | | Scott Jones forgave his attacker after a homophobic assault that happened in New Glasgow left him paralyzed almost ten years ago. Now, he’s co-written a play about that. It's showing at the National Arts Centre.- from Information Morning Mainland N.S. | | | | Watch | | When photography editor Andrea Carpenter looked at her first gender-affirmation photo edit, of a picture of herself before her transition, she says she was overwhelmed when she saw the person she wished she was at the time smiling back at her. | | Listen |
Mi'kmaw teachers Joyce Germain and Brenda Germain speak with the CBC's Nation Isaac.
- from Information Morning Moncton
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