How growing up in a refugee camp set a Dalhousie student on a life-long path to preserve biodiversity

06/06/21 • 7 min

Unity Cooper, a fourth year student of biology and neuroscience at Dalhousie University, spoke with guest host Preston Mulligan about her childhood in Ghana and the work she's doing to conserve wilderness in Nova Scotia.

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N.S. Native Women's Association hopes to break ground on new resiliency centre this fall

Zabrina Whitman, the project manager on the resiliency centre project, spoke with host Jeff Douglas about why the centre in Millbrook First Nation is needed and what it could look like.

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When ticks drool ... duck! Andrew Hebda shares all the disgusting details about new research into tick saliva

Andrew Hebda, the retired curator of zoology at the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History, joins Mainstreet once again to talk about ticks — and why their drool is very, very complex.