Afternoon Pint

06/23/2026

🚦🏠💰 Traffic, housing, and taxes aren’t separate issues… they’re all connected!

This week at Quinn’s Arm Pub 🍻, journalist and former Navy tech Matt Stickland joins us to break down how HRM City Hall decisions shape your daily life more than you might think.

We dive into:
🏘️ Housing affordability & zoning
📈 The Centre Plan
💸 Property taxes & development
🚗 Why traffic gets worse faster than you think
🚌 The case for bus lanes
🚲 E-bikes, micromobility & safer streets
🚦 Road safety and smarter city planning

If you care about HRM politics, housing, transit, bike lanes, or the future of our city, this episode is packed with insights and fresh perspectives.

Thank you to our sponsor:

Kimia Nejat - EXIT Realty Metro

🎧 Listen now: www.Afternoonpint.ca

📲 Share with a friend who’s always stuck in traffic.

⭐ Leave a review and tell us: what’s the first change you’d make in HRM?

06/16/2026

🇨🇦 Something is off when a government can win a supermajority while millions of Canadians stay home.

This week, we’re joined by author and former political candidate Jo-anne Roberts to discuss her book Storm The Ballot Box: An Insider’s Guide to a Voting Revolution and what low voter turnout really means for Canadian democracy.

🎙️ We dive into:
✅ Why people stop believing their vote counts
✅ What Joanne learned from inside political campaigns
✅ How parties use voter data to target reliable voters
✅ Why democracy can end up focused on just a handful of swing ridings

We also unpack:
🗳️ First-Past-the-Post vs. Proportional Representation
📍 Why local riding representation still matters
🤝 How minority governments and coalitions have shaped major Canadian social programs
🔄 Why floor-crossing can leave voters feeling unheard

And we follow the incentives:
💰 Political donations and party funding
📉 The end of the federal per-vote subsidy
🤔 How money, access, and influence can fuel public cynicism

Plus, a future-focused debate:
👩‍🎓 Lowering the voting age to 16
📚 Mandatory civics education
🤖 AI, misinformation, and how the next generation may challenge political nonsense

Thank you to our sponsor:
Kimia Nejat - EXIT Realty Metro
Thank you to our host:
Jungle Jim's Eatery

🎧 If you care about electoral reform, voter engagement, and making every Canadian voice count, this episode is for you.

Listen anywhere you get podcasts or at www.Afternoonpint.ca

06/09/2026

🐟 How fresh is “fresh” food, really?

This week on the podcast, we sat down with Dr Mina Mekhail of Fresher Technologies to talk about 🍣 food waste, 📦 smart packaging, 🚀 entrepreneurship, and the science behind keeping seafood fresh longer.

From building a company in Dartmouth to partnering with global industry leaders 🌎, Mina shares the pivots, challenges, and lessons that helped turn an idea into an international business.

🎙️ Give it a listen and let us know: where do you think the biggest inefficiencies in the food supply chain exist?

Thank you to our sponsor:
Kimia Nejat - EXIT Realty Metro
Thank you to our host: Quinn’s Arms Pub

🔗 Available now wherever you get your podcasts or www.Afternoonpint.ca

06/05/2026

Podcasting is all about conversations, connections, and building community.

As we get ready for the Echo Summit Podcast Expo on June 18, we’re excited to connect with fellow creators, learn from industry leaders, and continue growing the Afternoon Pint.
Presented by Podstarter, sponsored by many, Afternoon Pint being one!

If you’re interested in podcasts, either as a creator or listener, you won’t want to miss Echo Summit!

06/04/2026

📢 Have you listened to our conversation with Mayor Andy Fillmore yet?

We covered the opportunities, challenges, and priorities facing HRM, along with his vision for the city’s future. If you’ve heard the episode, let us know which quote or moment stood out to you most.

Whether you agree with every point or not, these comments are helping shape important conversations about where our city is headed.

Be involved in those conversations! The Mayor wants to hear from folks from Hubbards to Ecum Secum

06/02/2026

Round 2 with Mayor Andy Fillmore:

Halifax is growing fast. The real question is whether we’re ready for it.
This week on Afternoon Pint, we sit down with Halifax Mayor Andy Fillmore for a long-form conversation about what comes next for HRM.
We talk housing, transit, infrastructure, Halifax Water, defence investment, and why the biggest risk to the city’s future might be something simple: saying no to the growth that is already coming.
This isn’t a blame session. It’s a “brutal facts” conversation.
Halifax needs more homes.
Better mobility.
Faster approvals.
Smarter infrastructure planning.
And a city hall that can move at the speed of the moment.
Because if we get this right, Halifax can become one of the most exciting cities in Canada.
If we get it wrong, opportunity turns into higher costs, traffic, frustration, and people being priced out of the place they love.

Full episode with Mayor Andy Fillmore is out now:
www.afternoonpint.ca

What’s the one thing you think Halifax needs to fix first?



Thank you to our sponsor:

Kimia Nejat - EXIT Realty Metro

06/01/2026

🍻 HALF PINT ALERT! 🍻

A familiar face is back on The Afternoon Pint. Past guest Lawrence Conrad joins us for a special Half Pint episode as he celebrates an incredible 30 years in business.

We talk about the journey, the challenges, the successes, and the lessons learned over three decades of entrepreneurship. It’s a great conversation about persistence, growth, and building something that lasts.

Congratulations, Lawrence, on 30 years in business! 🎉

We’ve got a special “Half Pint” episode of The Afternoon Pint featu...

05/26/2026

Episode 156: Dr Jeanette Boudreau

🧬 Cancer research can feel like a distant world of microscopes and jargon, but the stakes are painfully everyday: can we help people live longer, feel better, and suffer less during treatment?

This week, we’re joined by Jeanette Boudreau from Dalhousie University to break down what’s changing right now in cancer immunotherapy, especially in blood cancers, and why “hope” is starting to look a lot more like hard evidence. 🩸🔬

We talk about:
✨ The hidden costs of cancer care in Canada
✨ Why quality of life matters just as much as survival
✨ How patient partners are reshaping research priorities
✨ Why cancer is so difficult for the immune system to detect
✨ How CAR T-cell therapy can reprogram immune cells to hunt cancer for years 🧫⚔️
✨ The future of AI, precision medicine, and tumour “avatars” 🤖
✨ Why diverse blood donation matters for better research and transplant matches ❤️

This conversation takes complex science human and explores how the future of cancer treatment could become more personalized, accessible, and effective here in Canada 🇨🇦

🎧 Subscribe for more conversations like this
📲 Share with someone who cares about better cancer treatment
⭐ Leave a review to help more listeners find the show
👂 Listen at www.afternoonpint.ca

Thank you to our sponsor:

Kimia Nejat - EXIT Realty Metro

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05/20/2026

Former Premier Darrell Dexter joined us for a thoughtful conversation on leadership, legacy, energy, and the future of Nova Scotia.

Sometimes the hardest decisions only make sense years later.

Full episode is out now wherever you listen to Afternoon Pint.