Afternoon Pint

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.

05/19/2026

New episode: Darrell Dexter

Former Nova Scotia premier Darrell Dexter joins us for a candid conversation about governing through financial turmoil, shrinking revenues, and sky-high expectations.

We dive into the difference between “transformational” vs. “transactional” government, and the Nova Scotia decisions still shaping life today 👇

⚓ The Irving shipbuilding contract
📰 Saving Port Hawkesbury Paper
🏥 Collaborative Emergency Centres
💡 Energy battles over fracking, uranium, tidal power & Muskrat Falls
💰 Cost of living, housing, taxes & wage pressure

Listen, like and share If you care about:
🇨🇦 Canadian politics
📊 Public policy
⚡ Energy debates
🏠 Housing & affordability
🏛️ Nova Scotia’s future

Thank you to our sponsor:

Kimia Nejat - EXIT Realty Metro

Listen to the episode at:
www.afternoonpint.ca

05/15/2026

♟️🥌 Which chess piece would each member of Team Black curling team be?

We asked Christina Black to compare her team to a chessboard, from the steady leader to the aggressive playmaker 👀

Turns out curling and chess have a lot in common. 🎯

05/14/2026

🥌What if Mario power-ups existed in curling? 👀🎮

Top Canadian curler Christina Black tells us which Mario power-up would be the ultimate game changer on the ice 🧊

🔥 Fire broom to heat the ice?
🍄 Mushroom to grow the rock?
🪶 Feather to float the rock in place?

Listen to the full episode at www.afternoonpint.ca