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Atlantic Voice is the home of east coast documentary storytelling. Settle in for thoughtful radio docs and interviews that dive deep into the people of Atlantic Canada and what they

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How do you say'badminton'in Mi'kmaw? from 2023-06-17T22:40

The Mi'kmaw lexicon recently expanded, thanks to a team of a translators working with the North American Indigenous Games. Beverly Jeddore of Eskasoni is one of the language experts tasked with tra...

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Atlantic Voice: A Conversation with Michelle Good, author of Five Little Indians from 2021-09-11T22:40

Michelle Good's debut novel,"Five Little Indians"won the Governor General's Award, The Writers Trust Fiction Prize and the Amazon First Novel Award. It’s an intimate, chilling and sometimes disturb...

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Atlantic Voice: El Jones on Defunding the Police from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Halifax based poet and activist El Jones has been asked by the Halifax Board of Police Commissioners to define defunding the police. Of the appointment, the chair said “Involving El Jones and the c...

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Atlantic Voice: Making the Private Public from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Journalists are meant to give the public insight into how society works, and that includes our what happens inside our courthouses. But when it comes to sexual assault trials, the details of what g...

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Atlantic Voice: A Level Playing Field from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Nicole MacLennon introduces us to the Cape Breton family who set up Cape Breton's first sledge hockey team, the Cape Breton Sledgehammers. They wanted to give their son, Kurtis, the chance to play ...

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Atlantic Voice: Reporter Nic Meloney on the Mi'kmaw Regulated Lobster Fishery from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

We’re going to the wharf in Saulnierville, Nova Scotia where a Mi’kmaw regulated lobster fishery opened. CBC Indigenous Unit reporter Nic Meloney was there for the opening and some of the protests ...

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Atlantic Voice: A Feature Interview with writer Ami McKay from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Nova Scotia writer Ami McKay on "Daughter of Family G," a memoir of Cancer genes, love and fate. The story of her family’s genetic history and how the determination and bravery of Ami’s ancestors i...

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Atlantic Voice: A House Needs a Human Breath from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A documentary by Luke Quinton introducing listeners to the work of Guggenheim and TED fellow Matthew Mazzotta. His internationally recognized art practise helps small towns see themselves in a new ...

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Atlantic Voice: Michael Crummey and The Innocents from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Michael Crummey won the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award last week for his novel The Innocents. The $25,000 prize recognizes the best work of fiction by an Atlantic Canadian writer. On this we...

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Atlantic Voice: Iceland Innovation from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Jane Adey of The Broadcast accompanied Newfoundland fisheries companies on a visit to Iceland's Ocean Cluster House. A start-up incubator that is transforming the fishery there.

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Atlantic Voice: Camille Turner Newfoundland-built Slave Ships from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

This week on the Best of Atlantic Voice an interview with artist Camille Turner who installed her Afronautic Research Lab at the Bonavista Biennale in 2019. The lab exposed viewers to the history ...

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Atlantic Voice: Breaching Tradition from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

This week on the best of Atlantic Voice, Moira Donovan’s documentary Breaching Tradition about the the threat posed by climate change to Nova Scotia’s Acadian dyke system and how scientists and com...

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Atlantic Voice: Finding Florence - winner of a silver Atlantic Journalism Award from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Richard Woodbury's documentary about a WW2 spitfire named Florence. The surprising story of Cape Breton pilot Ed Mann and his favourite plane - an aircraft with connections to generations of people...

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Atlantic Voice - Elias' Pear Trees - winner of an Atlantic Journalism Award from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Here is Rebecca Nolan’s documentary Elias’ Pear Trees, gold medal winner at this year’s Atlantic Journalism Awards. Our story starts this week with a trio of pear trees growing on a cliff in the B...

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