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Information Morning in the Summer 2025

Information Morning in the Summer returns this July and August. Beginning on July 2, you’ll hear a province-wide summer edition of the show with guest hosts Khalil Akhtar and Colleen Kitts-Goguen. Your regular local morning shows will return after Labour Day.

This July and August, join us for a province-wide edition of the show

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Information Morning in the Summer returns this July and August. Beginning on July 2, you'll hear a province-wide summer edition of the show with guest hosts Khalil Akhtar and Colleen Kitts-Goguen. Your regular local morning shows will return after Labour Day.

Weekly giveaways

Tune in each week for a chance to win fabulous prizes featuring local New Brunswick items and some of our most popular CBC swag. Whether you like to be active, read, cook or just simply relax in your own backyard, tune in to find out how to get your hands on these hot summer prizes.

Congratulations to Elizabeth Quinn from Moncton, who won our "Tea Time" themed prize pack for the week of July 21.

Tune in this week for a chance to win our "Spice up your life" prize pack, which includes New Brunswick 'Sea' Spice,  a CBC Apron, Hot sauce and Sea salt

A photo of items to be included in a prize package, including sea' spice, a CBC Apron, Hot sauce, sea salt and CBC Cutlery.
Our prize back for the week of July 28 includes New Brunswick Sea' Spice, a CBC Apron, Hot sauce, sea salt and CBC Cutlery. (Andrea Stanford/CBC)

Highlights from the week of July 21:

Come along to a family farm in Stanley. A young farmer north of Fredericton who says his big risks on heated greenhouses are paying off as they are churning out meat and veggies to feed more than 120 families from just an acre and a half of land.
A young man with short brown hair brushed back and to the side smiles toward the camera for an upper body portrait with one hand on his hip. In the background is a hillside with garden fields and a few single story wooden structures.
Louis St-Pierre, 31, is co-owner-operator of Earth to Belly Homestead in Stanley, N.B. (Jennifer Sweet/CBC News)
From gold to lithium, our lives run on what’s pulled from the ground, but at what cost? A new book takes us inside the mining industry most of us depend on, but never dare to look at too closely. Saint John writer Jeremy Thomas Gilmer speaks with host Khalil Akhtar.
Another historic tourist attraction in New Brunswick is handing operations back to the province. The board of Ministers Island says the popular tourist destination can't continue without proper funding. Host Khalil Akhtar speaks with board chair John Kershaw.
Colleen and Khalil
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About your hosts

Khalil Akhtar

This is Khalil Akhtar's fourth year hosting Information Morning in the Summer. He joined CBC in 2002 and has worked as a news reporter, producer and radio host in New Brunswick and British Columbia. For 13 years, he hosted a weekly column about food issues that aired on CBC Radio programs across Canada. Khalil will be hosting throughout July.

Colleen Kitts-Goguen

Colleen Kitts-Goguen is an award-winning journalist with CBC New Brunswick. Originally from Moncton, she now lives in Fredericton where she is a senior writer for CBC News and a backfill host for radio current affairs programs. Colleen will be with you in August.

How to listen

Hear Information Morning in the Summer on CBC Radio One or on CBC Listen, in Saint John, Fredericton and Moncton.