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There's a new incentive program for affordable housing projects in Saint John. Andy Reid is the city's housing manager and he tells CBC's Nipun Tiwari about how the program could help developers with so called soft costs, like design, engineering studies, and getting proper permits. Then Seth Asimakos with Kaleidoscope Social Impact joins host Julia Wright to talk affordable housing in the port city.

Our house doctor, Mike Simon, shares details of a couple of new studies on how A-I is being tested to improve patient care.

The national dental care plan launches today and Hampton dentist, Joanah Campbell, says it could have been done better. She shares her concerns about more paperwork, staff shortages and some other issues with the framework around the plan with host Julia Wright.

Wrong information about New Brunswick being circulated European tourism ads is making headlines this week. But there was a time in Saint John history when some of that information was actually true. Local historian Greg Marquis takes us back to a time when Saint John wasn't just the greatest little city in the east, but the capital of New Brunswick.

Timothy Christie is the regional director of ethics services for Horizon Health Network.He's been conducting an ethics analysis of what we know so far about the Compassionate Intervention Act. We hear about the ethics of forcing people into addictions treatment when he speaks with Rachel Cave.

Dominic Cardy says one of his biggest regrets from his time as Education minister was not banning cell phones in schools. He tells us why he thinks they're destroying classrooms.