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Dec 2023
50m 24s

Salvation Army asking for help; Authors ...

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First up on the show today, host Adam Walsh hears about how the Salvation Army is calling out for extra community support this year for their Christmas Kettle campaign. And then he talks to the authors of "Black Harbour: Slavery and the Forgotten Histories of Black People in Newfoundland and Labrador." 
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