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May in Nova Scotia is Gaelic Awareness Month. It's a time when people across the province celebrate Gaelic culture, language and history. To learn more about the language, its importance and its effect on community, Mainstreet's Alex Guye spoke with Shannon MacMullin, a Gaelic outreach and engagement officer with the province.

Students at the Cobequid Educational Centre in Truro, N.S., hosted the school's first Mawio’mi on Wednesday. The event was a cultural celebration that took two years of planning by students. The CBC's Sis'moqon was there and she spoke with some of the organizers.

A Haligonian ballerina has decided it's time for her to retire. Hannah Mae Cruddas has been dancing professionally with Ballet Jörgen for 13 years. She's danced in many productions, like The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, and Cinderalla. But most might recognize her as the titular character of Anne Shirley in Anne of Green Gables: The Ballet. Mainstreet's Alex Guye spoke with Hannah Mae in a series of interviews, including one after her final performance.

Both politicians and consumers have been scrutinizing large grocery chains for reporting higher profits while many Canadians struggle to afford groceries — and an ongoing boycott of Loblaw aims to challenge that. Host Jeff Douglas is joined by Kara Friesen, who runs a small meal kit business in the Annapolis Valley, about why the actions of large chains are also causing problems for local food producers.

Canada's second-ever marine protected area has just turned 20 years old and the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic is hosting a birthday bash for it on Saturday. The Gully is located 40 kilometres off Sable Island and is home to rare species of sponges, whales and other sea creatures. Ahead of the celebration, ocean scientist Trevor Kenchington joins host Jeff Douglas to talk about what can be found in waters.

Pierre Poilievre is making a lot of noise about lobbyists being useless and saying they won't carry any favour if he's elected — but a closer look shows he is pretty cozy with the lobbyists, too. Political scientist Lori Turnbull joins host Jeff Douglas to talk about what she thinks it's all about.

Festival founder and artistic director Siloën Daley spoke with Alex Guye about some of what attendees can expect to see during this years festival. You can learn more about the festival by visiting anihfx.ca.

An area of water off southeast Greenland has been setting record cold temperatures in recent years, defying the worldwide warming trend. Doug Wallace of Dalhousie University's chemical oceanographer joins host Jeff Douglas to talk about why this is happening — and whether it's cause for concern.

Darren Porter, who fishes the inner Bay of Fundy, joins host Jeff Douglas to talk about two junvenile salmon that were recently pulled from above the Windsor causeway, 11 months after a provincial emergency order closed the gates. He says finding the fish is promising, and shows they're working their way through the system.

The Black Educators Association will hold its annual REP Provincial Spelling BEE on Saturday. Nearly 100 students are expected to compete at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax. Three of them, alongside former spelling bee champ Maggie Andrew, join host Jeff Douglas to talk about the competition — and to spell a few words.

The case for and against decriminalizing drugs may not be as tidy as advocates and critics want it to be. Chris Giacomantonio, a sociologist at Dalhousie University who has an interest in evidence-based crime policy, joins host Jeff Douglas to talk about what he thinks of the debate playing out in British Columbia.

Ottawa's Jen Labelle is one of many comedians who will perform at the Halifax Comedy Fest which gets underway on Wednesday. Labelle, who works as a teacher by day, joins host Jeff Douglas to talk about how working with students informs her comedy sets.

Bernadette Jordan, a former federal cabinet minister of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, spoke with CBC's Brittany Wentzell about the harassment she faced while in office, and why she's worried that harassment could affect the future of politics.

Host Jeff Douglas is joined by Shelley Fashan and Florence West ahead of their event "Our Legacy: Many Voices, Many Stories, happening at the Bus Stop Theatre in Halifax on Friday. The event will celebrate Black families and their stories and songs.

Juno nominated singer-songwriter Kellie Loder is on tour across Atlantic Canada right now with their latest album, Transitions. Kellie dropped by Studio A this afternoon, to talk about their new album and their current tour with Mainstreet host, Jeff Douglas.

Atlantic Canada's oldest marine protected area, also known as The Gully, is located off the coast of Nova Scotia and is home to blue whales, rare deep-sea corals and sponges and a rare population of northern bottlenose whales. As the area celebrates its 20th year of protection, Derek Fenton with Fisheries and Oceans Canada says there's still much to learn from it.

The people who called for a boycott of Loblaw-owned stores this month want the company to sign a grocers' code of conduct and reduce food prices by 15 per cent. The Coupon Nannie, Dana Calder-Boutilier, joins host Jeff Douglas to give her take on the boycott and how people are responding in the Truro area.

K.R. Byggdin and Stephanie Domet join host Jeff Douglas to talk about what they make of the novel This is the House Luke Built by Violet Browne. It's on the shortlist for this year's Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award.

A new art exhibit and market called "On Our Terms" aims to help survivors of gender-based violence in Nova Scotia share their craft and work toward healing their trauma. On May 9, the Elizabeth Fry Society of Mainland Nova Scotia will host the exhibit, which features the sharing of stories, art and crafts of survivors — on their own terms.

This Sunday, May 5 is a national day to honour and bring awareness to the thousands of Indigenous women and girls, and two-spirit people who have gone missing or have been murdered. It's called Red Dress Day. Mainstreet's Kathleen McKenna spoke with Mi'kmaw elder Marie Sack from Sipekne’katik about the significance of the red dress.