At The Table CBC Maritimes

Craig Smith was born and raised in the north end of Halifax. He was a youth worker and director of the community Y. At 35 he became a mountie and now specializes in race relations. Craig Smith is an author, a historian, an inspirational speaker and i

As President of St. Mary's University in Halifax, Colin Dodds has been a leader in attracting international students. Currently, one in four students at SMU is from outside Canada. These students not only help to build diversity on campus but are cri

As a stay at home mom in rural New Brunswick in the 1960's, Margaret McCain was very involved in her community. She became an activist in the quest to eliminate family violence. In 1994, she became Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick and continued t

Musician Dave Carroll's life changed in July 2009 when United Airlines broke his guitar and refused to pay for it. He turned his customer service gripe into a video called "UNITED BREAKS GUITARS". The video went viral. Today, over 11 millio

As a marine geologist, Steve Blasco has a professional interest in ship wrecks. In 1990, he spent 17 hours in a small submarine studying the most famous shipwreck of them all, the unsinkable Titanic. On the 100th anniversary of the infamous marine disas

As the Chief of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery at the IWK Hospital, Dr. Camille Hancock Friesen has watched childhood obesity reach epidemic proportions. In 2005, she began the Heart Healthy Kids program. (H2K) has become an innovative initiative... encoura