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Several areas along the water at the Kouchibouguac National Park are closed for the summer to help protect the piping plovers nesting there. We'll get more details from the park's ecologist Daniel Gallant.

Nigadoo's Julie Duguay has been spending her spare hours in her she-shed creating the most adorable creatures, using a crochet art called amigurumi. She'll share her passion project with us.

Birder Alain Clavette checks in from the field, and shares more of his chat with an Icelandic author.

Hayes Farm on the northside of Fredericton is hosting a clean up event to get their fields ready for the growing season. We get a tour behind the scenes and learn what goes into springtime farming in the city.

It's been an active week in provincial politics. - with a legal fight between the education minister and a district education council, and a pause on forced treatment legislation. We'll gather a panel to talk through the latest developments.

The minister of education gave a district education council an ultimatum - to stop spending money in its legal fight over policy 713, or face dissolution. But can the minister dissolve an elected council? We'll speak with constitutional lawyer Lyle Skinner.