Every weekday, Adam Walsh starts a new conversation on The Signal. It's a show about what's on your mind now, and what people aren't talking about...yet. The Signal will make you think, smile and learn more about the place you call home.
Every weekday, Adam Walsh starts a new conversation on The Signal. It's a show about what's on your mind now, and what people aren't talking about...yet. The Signal will make you think, smile and learn more about the place you call home.
Today on the show we have The Signal's pop culture panel to talk the year of movies, television and streaming.
Guests: Sandra Mills, Susan Kelsey and Ian Mills
Today on the show a conversation about municipal budgets -- what goes into the thinking and the planning process. How do you balance the budget to get more for your buck, balancing essential expenses, recreational activities and places but also having taxe levels tolerable?
GUESTS - Miles Russell, civil engineering technologist with Happy City; Rigel Penman, Happy City’s head of community partnership; Mike Doyle, mayor of Harbour Main-Chapel’s Cove-Lakeview; Danny Breen, mayor of St. John’s. Triffie Parsons, town clerk/manager Hare Bay; Connie Reid, President of Professional Municipal administrators and town manager of Reidville; Jordan Brown, mayor of Labrador City
This province's deficit has skyrocketed to $948 million, which is something the finance minister says is 'deeply troubling' but he has some optimism for 2026. Today on the show we dig into the update and what it may mean for Newfoundland and Labrador.
Guests Politics watchers John Whelan, Laurabel Mba and Kristina Ennis, along with markets commentator Larry Short.
Today on the show we have a food and culture conversation with folks who are part of the 'edible Newfoundland & Labrador' community.
GUESTS Marsha Tulk, contributor; Bill Dray, co-owner and butcher at Anderson’s; Steve Canning, owner and butcher, Newlander Meat Shop; Karen Thorp, Karen’s Woodworking; editors Dave Snow and Sara Tedford; Valerie Ryan, owner of the Lovely Grand Bake Shop.
Today on the show we are speaking with historians and enthusiasts about shipwrecks around Newfoundoland and Labrador. “Every body of water has had a shipwreck” as one guest says. And each shipwreck has a story.
GUESTS - Historians: Heather Elliot, Julia Stryker, Meaghan Walker, Alexa Bailey and Neil Burgess, president of the Shipwreck Preservation Society of NL.
In 1967 at he age of 23 he left the mosslands of Ireland to seek his fortune as principal in Island Habor Fogo Island. Today on the show we find out what happened when we speak with Michael Boyle about his memoir On New Turf.
The federal budget has billions of dollars allocated for defence spending. Today on the show we dive into a dicussion with industry experts on how the provincial government and business can maximize our slice of the pie.
GUESTS - Florian Villaumé, CEO of techNL; Michelle Simms, CEO of the regional economic development agency Advantage St. John's; Karen Moores, Atlantic Canada at the Council of Canadian Innovators’ senior advisor; Charlie Oliver, property management specialist with Martek and also with Think N.L; Mark Norman, retired vice-admiral who commanded Canada’s Navy and was vice-chief of Defence.
On today's show folks from Choices for Youth talk about the impacts of family poverty on young people. We also take a look at possible solutions including their social services hubs with a new one in Corner Brook soon opening.
GUESTS - Jen Crowe, executive director of Choices for Youth; Nivethine Mahendran, CFY project officer; Kim Dreaddy, Jimmy Pratt Foundation executive director;
Krista Butler, CFY director of Becket; Mike Kearley, executive director of Vine Place Community Centre (Corner Brook).
Today on the show we play a new limited series called 'Future Ancestors'. Over the course of the hour we hear from young Indigenous folks from across the province who are already taking the mantle of community leadership in their own ways.
The Newfoundland Quarterly magazine is out with a new issue this winter with the theme this time around being “air.” We invited contributors to the show to talk about their pieces and the inspiration behind them.
GUESTS - Joan Sullivan, managing editor of the Newfoundland Quarterly; Janet McNaughton, artist and orchardist; Mark Thompson, painter; Nora Kelly, Montreal-based multimedia artist; Vanessa Iddon, artist; Karin Murray-Bergquist, writer; Mark David Turner, cultural historian and co-owner of Brak and Brine.
It's a rare Thursday trivia day on the show. Host Adam Walsh is joined by former CBC colleague and trivia master extraordinaire Ted Blades for an hour of stumping folks across Newfoundland and Labrador
Ahead of the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women on Dec. 6, today on the show we have a discussion about how financial support is a leading barrier to safety from gender-based violence.
Today on the show we talk about Giving Tuesday, a globally recognized day where people are encouraged to show generosity - either with money, volunteering or just making someone smile. We invited folks from Stella’s Circle to talk about the events they are having throughout the day and their long-term plans of tackling housing crisis in N.L.
Today on the show we are joined by tech critic Paris Marx who will talk about the consequences of Artificial Intelligence in our lives, thoughts on regulations and important questions we all should be asking.
Today's show digs into a conversation about food and nutrition in Newfoundland and Labrador. We talk about folks having access to and a better understanding of culturally appropriate and nutritious food.
Newfoundland and Labrador has the highest rates of diabetes in the country. Today on the show we speak with people living with it, people who have loved ones with diabetes, doctors treating it and people working on prevention.
Today on the show we dig into a biography about Roger Bill, an American draft dodger turned pot-stirring journalist here in this Newfoundland and Labrador. It's an immersive trip through the local and international politics and players that shaped - and were shaped by - the agitators of the baby boomer generation.
Today on the show we unpack a mystery and how a St. John's soldier killed in France 108 years ago has caught the attention of historians. The remains could be those of Pte. George Patrick Kirk, but a family mystery is stalling identification process.
Today on the show we explore 'Dear Mr. Smallwood -Confederation in the Words of Those Who Lived It'. Host Adam Walsh is joined by researchers from Memorial University’s folklore department who compiled hundreds of letters sent to former N.L. premier Joey Smallwood.
It's Climate Week day five. Today on the show we explore the connection between climate change, our food quality and supply, and our health.