Atlantic Voice

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Atlantic Voice: Never Too Old an interview with Olive Bryanton and filmmaker Marcia Connolly

Never Too Old made its debut at the FIN Atlantic International Film Festival. The doc follows the journey of 81 year old Olive as she completes her PhD and forces viewers to confront their own ageism. This week on Atlantic Voice, an interview with Olive Bryanton and filmmaker Marcia Connolly.

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Atlantic Voice: Crow Gulch was Here

The CBC's Lindsay Bird is going to take us to the forgotten village of Crow Gulch just outside Corner Brook, Newfoundland. Her doc explores how attitudes around race, can shape the perceived value of a place and impact generations.

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The Best of Atlantic Voice: The Name Game

Host Pauline Dakin and Maggie Rahr ask is Atlantic Canada has the best nicknames. From the 2015 archives of Atlantic Voice.

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The Best of Atlantic Voice: The Ordination of Helen (2015)

Helen McFadyen did something no one else has done. Helen has said she felt a call her entire life. That mysterious force that compels some people to seek a life in the church. But Helen is not your typical minister. The CBC’s Molly Segal brings us a story about what it means to follow your calling no matter what stands in your way.

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Best of Atlantic Voice - Changing Trains

Today on The Best of Atlantic Voice, an award winning documentary called Changing Trains from Sarah Keveney-Vos. Changing Trains tells the story of a mother from Charlottetown, forced to face her deepest fear about having a child with Down's Syndrome.

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The Best of Atlantic Voice: The Stirling County Study

Almost 70 years ago, an American psychiatrist at Cornell University started work on one of the longest running and most respected mental health surveys in the world. The Stirling Country study laid the groundwork for a whole new field of research and changed the way we think about and treat mental illness. And it was conducted entirely in rural NS. In fact, the research continues to this day even though most of the people who live there have never heard about it. Today on the Best of Atlantic Voice, we're going into the archives to bring you a doc by the CBC's Eileen MacGuiness about The Stirling Country Study.

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Best of Atlantic Voice: Jamaica Journey from 2017

In this award winning documentary from 2017, The CBC's Blair Sanderson travelled with Nova Scotia farmer Josh Boulton to make this documentary about the challenges faced by some of the migrant farm workers who work on his farm in the Annapolis Valley.

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Atlantic Voice: Downstairs: Closing Traingles nightclub

This week on the program we're considering what it means to lose your safe place. The one place you can be yourself. Triangles Nightclub was that place for many people in Moncton's LGBTQ community. When the bar closed its doors last year, Tori Weldon looked into what Triangles meant, and what, if anything should replace it, in her documentary Downstairs: Closing Triangles NightClub.

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Atlantic Voice: Kinley Dowling's Microphone

This week, a story from CBC PEI's Jessica Doria Brown about a movement underway in PEI to better support victims of sexual assault. The movement centres around Bill 110, a new law to increase training for judges to make court proceedings less painful for victims of sexual assault, rape and abuse. People like PEI musician Kinley Dowling, an advocate for sexual assault victims, sat in the legislature to witness the bill passing. But as CBC PEI's jessica Doria brown found out, not everyone in PEI believes that Bill 110 will bring change.

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Atlantic Voice: Gussie's Legacy

It has been over a year since, Gussie Bennett, a young hockey player from Nain, Labrador died from TB. Nic Meloney of CBC's Indigenous Unit travelled to the coastal Labrador community and brings us the story of Gussie's legacy.

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Atlantic Voice: Between Breaths

Between Breaths tells the life story of Newfoundland's Whale Man - Dr. Jon Lien.

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Atlantic Voice: The Hidden Costs of Lung Transplants

Carolyn Ray brings us the story of why some Atlantic Canadians are choosing palliative care over a life saving lung transplants.

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