The Todd Veinotte Show | March 26, 2025
Hour 1: • Don Desserud, UPEI • Laura Mackenzie, Screen Nova Scotia • Barret Kurylyk, Dalhousie University • Peter Day, Nova Scotia Teachers Union • Hugh Gillis, NSGEU Hour 2: • House Calls with Dr. John Gillis. Hour 3: • It's the Mid-Week Meltdown. Todd takes your calls!
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Show Notes
In Hour 1, Politics chat with UPEI Political Science professor Don Desserud. Laura Mackenzie, Executive Director of Screen Nova Scotia, shares how Screen Nova Scotia purchased a soundstage facility to help grow the province's "thriving" film industry. Barret Kurylyk, an engineering professor at Dalhousie University, discusses how climate change means even 'very, very wet' Nova Scotia feels drought. Peter Day, head of the Nova Scotia Teachers Union, shares how many of his members are upset that flags representing Mi'kmaq, African Nova Scotian, LGBTQ+ and other communities were ordered to be taken down. Hugh Gillis, First 1st Vice President of NSGEU, calls on the government to keep flags flying outside schools in the South Shore. In Hour 2, House Calls with Dr. John Gillis. In Hour 3, Todd opens the phone for the Mid-Week Meltdown.