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      <description>February is Violence Prevention Month, Paula Sheppard’s guest this week is Local Violence Coordinator Michelle Maloney.</description>
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      <description>Paula Sheppard’s guest this week is Destiny Hopkins, Research and Action Coordinator with the Corner Brook Status of Women Council.  This week Destiny and Paula will be talking about A.I. created images that may be intimate or even pornographic that are being investigated at several schools in the province.&#13;
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      <itunes:subtitle>Host Paula Sheppard's guests this week are Destiny Hopkins, Lead Coordinator for the Technology Facilitated Gender Based Violence Project with the Corner Brook Status of Women's Council and Michelle Maloney, Violence Prevention and SARA Project Coordinator</itunes:subtitle>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2025 17:02:21 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Paula Sheppard's guest this week is Healther Davis, Executive Director of the Committee of Family Violence which oversees Willow House </itunes:subtitle>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2025 14:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Host Paula Sheppard's guest this week is Peter Parsons, Inter-Agency Coordinator with the Community Mental Health Initiative</itunes:subtitle>
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      <itunes:subtitle>October is Woman's History Month </itunes:subtitle>
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      <description>Paula Sheppard's guest this week are Catherine Burry and Cathy Hoyles from Menopause Foundation NL to help us understand a little bit more about this stage of women's lives. Listen to the full show right here.</description>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Homelessness is an issue being seen in more communities in our country.</itunes:subtitle>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2025 14:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Host Paula Sheppard's guest this week is Allison Cains, Violence Prevention and Sara Project Coordinator</itunes:subtitle>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2025 13:49:43 +0000</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2025 14:20:49 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:subtitle>On this show host Paula Sheppard speaks with Julia Abundo, Provincial Coordinator of HIV/HCV Services at ACNL.</itunes:subtitle>
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Syphilis is a bacterial infection and for a period was almost eradicated but now. On this show host Paula Sheppard speaks with Julia Abundo, Provincial Coordinator of HIV/HCV Services at ACNL.&#13;
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