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Mi'kmaw history entering the digital age: Internet technology is going to help preserve the rich history and culture of the Mi'kmaw, Nova Scotia's first inhabitants. This initiative is being undertaken at the Gorsebrook Insititute at St. Mary's University in Halifax. Historians and others there are beginning work on a digital atlas that will bring to life the 10,000-year history of the Mi'kmaw through interactive maps, text, pictures, sound and video recordings, highlighting the Mi'kmaw's ancestral land, oral history, legends and traditions. East Coast reporter Robert Jaros brings us the details.
 
SONG:  Friendship Chant
ARTIST: Eagle and Hawk
ALBUM: Dream
 
Web Discoveries - Twitter makes or breaks Hollywood box offices: Twitter is now a known online destination when we want to track what most people are concerned about and, at times, even obsessed with. But now it seems the social media website may also have the power to make or break Hollywood movies' success. The Link's internet columnist Andrew Fazekas examines how this social medium may be a major influence when it comes to the success of movies during their first days on cinema screens.
 
Winning Words - Understanding and using "causative" verbs: Carmel Kilkenny is joined by language teachers Lise Winer and Carolyn Samuel to talk about verbs such as "make" when they are used to describe causing someone to do something. For example, when a parent says they will make their children do their homework or perhaps laments that they cannot make their children do their household chores.
 
Listener letters: Marc Montgomery and Kathy Coulombe dip into The Link's mailbag, check the email and playback the answering machine to find out what's caught our listeners' attention in the past week. They also draw the names of the winners of our book giveaway. This week our lucky winners receive Rupinder Gill's "On the Outside Looking Indian."

 
Sports slam: Ian Jones drops by with a check of sports news.
 
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Learning an instrument linked to higher education: Canadians think playing a musical instrument is important. Supporting that view is a new survey which suggests those who learned to play early on were more likely to go to college or university. The Link's Lynn Desjardins tells us about the survey and what science says about the benefits of music.

SONG: Suck It Up
ARTIST: Johanna Sillanpaa
ALBUM: Good Life
 
Will Japanese radiation contaminate Canada's Pacific salmon?: The release of massive amounts of radioactive seawater from Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant has sparked concerns about radiation entering the food chain. Japan and its neighbours are monitoring their seafood for contamination and some are even considering a ban on seafood harvested in Japanese waters. But will that radioactive water reach Canadian shores and contaminate our Pacific salmon? Marc Montgomery examines the question with Dr Brian Riddell, the President & CEO of the Pacific Salmon Foundation.http://www.psf.ca/
 
SONG: Ghosts of you
ARTIST: Chantal Kreviazuk
ALBUM: Ghost Stories
 
Winning Words - The quantities and the qualities of the word "some": We look at some of the forms the word "some" can take. It can refer to the quantity of certain things, such as some sugar in a bowl, or to the quality of certain things, such as that was some storm! Carmel Kilkenny talks to teaching experts Lise Winer and Carolyn Samuel about the different uses of some - including one use exclusive to certain English speakers on Canada's east coast.
 
Indo Canadian Report - Fundraisers warm up to Indo-Canadian philanthropists: In the third installment of our series on philanthropy amongst Indians and Indo-Canadians, Rashi Khilnani reports on how some organisations are targeting Indo-Canadians for their charity dollars.
 
Sports Slam: Ian Jones is in with the latest from the world of sport.