Podcast: The Todd Veinotte Show October 5th, 2023

Hour 1: NDP Leader Claudia Chender says Nova Scotia opposition parties are calling for urgent action to address energy poverty. Nicole Gnazdowsky gives an update on her brother’s case, Andrew Gnazdowsky, an engineer who died at a Nova Scotia Power reservoir three years ago. Bridgewater Mayor David Mitchell says that if the provincial government is serious about tackling poverty in Nova Scotia, it needs to start doing a better job working with municipalities as partners. Sylvain Charlebois, Lab Director, Agri-Food Analytics Lab, Dalhousie University, answers the question, can $20-an-hour work in the fast-food industry?

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Hour 2: It’s the Open Hour. Todd takes your calls!

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Hour 3: Levi Clarkson, Campus Organizing Lead, Change Course, shares how Nova Scotia has joined student unions across Canada in a joint statement calling on the banks to divest from fossil fuels and respect Indigenous rights. Rachel Engler-Stringler, a professor at the University of Saskatchewan, discusses how Canada is the only G7 country without a national school food program. Clinton Wilkins says longer mortgages could be coming. Nova Scotian author Gloria Ann Wesley shares her book “Shovels not Rifles”.

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