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Weekend AM is CBC Radio One's province-wide, Saturday and Sunday morning show across Newfoundland and Labrador. You'll meet creative people up to all sorts of things that keep life in Newfoundland and Labrador interesting.

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Sarah Norris and John Feltham have returned home from Alberta to take over the former Norton's Cove Cafe in Wesleyville, now reopened at the Salt and Sail Cafe 
Maria Halfyard, founder of the Mernini raincoat, talks about the explosion in sales of her popular rain gear.  
Shay Landin, the founder of Newfound Tallow, explains how she turns locally sourced beef tallow into a skincare line.
Peter Duchemin teaches and practices a traditional type of Kung Fu called Hung Gar in St. John's 
Chef Christopher Bojocan and Cesar Ambrocio, the co-owner of Bistro on Roe in Gander, provide Weekend AM's Melissa Tobin with a taste of a traditional Filipino breakfast, Silog. 
Kathie Hicks of Spirit of Newfoundland Productions and Robert Pitt of Gower Street United Church tell us about an unusual discovery deep in a back room of the church 
NewfoundLanded

NewfoundLanded

2024-11-0908:59

Directors Santiago Guzman and Nabila Qureshi tell us about their new show, a love letter to the province from an immigrant and refugee point of view. 
A rural Newfoundland town threw a contest for a new flag. We meet the teen with the winning design. 
Signs before talking

Signs before talking

2024-11-0906:52

Weekend AM's Maddie Ryan visits a baby sign language class and learns how little ones can learn to communicate before they even start to talk. 
Dave Penny and Daunt Lee join Weekend AM's Melissa Tobin to talk about being back on stage after a year hiatus - a year that saw Dave go through many health challenges. 
Tonya Williams of the Reelworld Screen Institute talks to Weekend AM's Maddie Ryan about the importance of depicting realistic women of colour in creating Canadian film. 
The St. John's based dance group channels their feminine energy on stage in their latest show, Tarot: A Fool's Journey
A new website with 500 fiddle tunes from 30 Newfoundland & Labrador fiddlers is now online, a passion project for musician and ethnomusicologist Kelly Russell. 
The influence of METZ

The influence of METZ

2024-10-2712:11

Weekend AM's Maddie Ryan talks to local musicians about the influence METZ has had on the local alternative music scene - as well Alex Edkins from the band, who are calling it quits. 
Weekend AM's Melissa Tobin speaks with filmmaker and former MuchMusic VJ Sook-Yin Lee about her new film, Paying For It, which closed the 2024 St. John's International Women's Film Festival. 
Brad Randell of the Rotary Arts Centre in Corner Brook, and singer Kelly-Ann Evans talk about the popularity of shows featuring local musicians performing the music of well known, mainstream recording artists. 
Drone Racing

Drone Racing

2024-10-1909:31

Nathan Adams of the N.L. Drone Racing League drops by the Weekend AM studio to give a demonstration
Weekend AM's Melissa Tobin talks with Alyson Court, the actor who played Loonette on the classic children's television program, The Big Comfy Couch. 
Legendary American beat poet Ron Whitehead visits western Newfoundland - his first trip to Canada. 
Members of the Lighthouse Collective talk about their new exhibit at the Craft Council NL Gallery, which imagines life after the upheavals of climate change 
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