Steve Bruce new host and producer of Mainstreet P.E.I.
Steve Bruce is the new host and producer of Mainstreet P.E.I. beginning March 31.
"I'm honoured to join the Mainstreet team, and to have this opportunity to produce and host the show. I became a journalist
because I genuinely love talking to people and hearing their thoughts and stories," Steve says.
"Mainstreet provides such a great platform to connect with Islanders — particularly those that aren't necessarily making news headlines, but are interesting people doing wonderful things in their communities and achieving things that should be celebrated."
Steve has been with CBC P.E.I. since 2009 and has held a number of roles in addition to his work as a video-journalist. He has stepped in as executive producer, TV host, line-up producer and radio host.
He has won several awards throughout his career including a RTDNA Regional Adrienne Clarkson Diversity Award (2013), an Atlantic Journalism Award Gold - Breaking TV News (2014) and most recently Atlantic Journalism Award Silver - Video Feature (2024).
Outside of journalism, Steve is a singer and piano player and has performed in musical theatre productions like Beauty and the Beast, Jesus Christ Superstar, Little Shop of Horrors, and Into the Woods.
He is looking forward to sharing his love of music on Mainstreet, which has always been such a great venue to promote Island artists, writers and musicians in particular, and that won't change.
"I'm a big fan of the arts, and have so much respect for those that help P.E.I.'s arts community thrive," he says.
Born in Corner Brook, N.L., Steve received a journalism degree at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, N.B.
Steve and his wife Kady are busy parents with three young children. He enjoys sports and coaches kids' baseball and occasionally gets a chance to sneak away to pursue his passion for playing squash.
Hashtags
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
Calgary Herald
6 days ago
- Calgary Herald
The newest Tory senator is a Trudeau appointee. What to know about about David Adams Richards
Article content He's married to Peggy McIntyre, with whom he has two sons, John Thomas and Anton Richards. Article content While his first published work after studying literature and philosophy at St. Thomas University in the early 1970s was a small book of poems, Richards became an acclaimed Canadian novelist with 16 titles on his resume, along with six non-fiction books and two collections of short stories. Article content His writings have been translated into 12 languages and are part of the curriculum of Canadian and U.S. universities, according to the Senate of Canada. Article content In a style said to be influenced by the likes of Leo Tolstoy and compared to William Blake, his fiction work is mostly set in the Miramichi Valley where he grew up and the characters are inspired by the lives and experiences of its poor and working-class people. Article content Article content Article content Richards has been a writer-in-residence at multiple universities and colleges across Canada, three of which have awarded him honorary doctorates — the University of New Brunswick (1995), Mount Allison University in Sackville (2008), and St. Thomas University in Fredericton (1990). He received the same honour from the Atlantic School of Theology in 2010. Article content In 1998, he became one of just three Canadian writers to win a Governor General's Literary Award in both fiction and non-fiction for Nights Below Station Street (1988) and Lines on the Water: A Fisherman's Life on the Miramichi (1998). Writers Laura G. Salverson and Hugh MacLennan are the others. Meanwhile, his 1993 fiction novel For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down and 2007's The Lost Highway were also nominated for the government honour. Article content Article content In 2000, his Mercy Among the Children was a co-winner of the Giller Prize along with Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje, the only time two recipients have shared the honour in its 31-year history. Lost Highway and The Friends of Meager Fortune (2006) were both longlisted for the Giller. Article content Richards has also been awarded two Gemini Awards for scriptwriting (Small Gifts and For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down), the Alden Nowlan Award for Excellence in the Arts, the Canadian Authors Association Award for his novel Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace, the 2011 Matt Cohen Award for a distinguished lifetime of contribution to Canadian literature and the Canada-Australia Literary Prize. Article content He is a member of the Order of New Brunswick (2005) and the Order of Canada (2009). Article content Richards the Senator Article content When first appointed to the Senate by Trudeau in 2017, two years after the then-prime minister established the Independent Advisory Board for Senate Appointments to make the Upper House less partisan, Richards joined the relatively new Independent Senators Group (ISG).
CBC
21-05-2025
- CBC
Jonna Brewer to retire as host of Information Morning Moncton
Information Morning Moncton host, Jonna Brewer, will retire on June 27 after 37 years with CBC. A passionate storyteller, Jonna has held many roles during her career with CBC. She started as an editorial assistant in the National newsroom in Toronto before moving to Moncton to work as a reporter, editor and executive producer. Jonna has been the host of Information Morning Moncton for the past 14 years. Jonna is nominated as a finalist for a 2025 Atlantic Journalism Award for her radio doc, Hunter Remembered, a story about the vital need for young people to feel like they matter. In 2015, Jonna and the CBC Moncton team received the RTDNA's Atlantic Peter Gzowski Award for News Information Program. Audiences will hear Information Morning in the Summer throughout July and August.
CBC
04-05-2025
- CBC
Endangered piping plovers have returned to P.E.I. for another breeding season
As endangered piping plovers return to P.E.I. for another nesting season, there are simple things Islanders can do to help protect these tiny beach birds. The Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada has listed the piping plover as endangered since 1985. Jenna Cahill, coastal project manager at Island Nature Trust, said the birds usually leave P.E.I. in late August for warmer winter locations like the southern U.S. or the Bahamas and return in April. This year, the first piping plover on P.E.I. was spotted on April 15 at Thunder Cove. Cahill said fewer than 60 of these birds are typically seen on the Island each year, with the low numbers mostly due to human disturbance. Here on P.E.I., people going to the beach can encroach on the space the birds need to raise their young. "They're very sensitive to disturbances, so even if you know they're not being directly trampled on or whatever, even if you just disturb them while they're feeding, because they have such long migrations, just that extra energy expenditure can decrease the likelihood that they can make those long migrations," Cahill told CBC News. Simple steps to help Cahill said piping plovers are classified as a conservation-dependent species, meaning they would become extinct without ongoing conservation efforts. Thanks to efforts on P.E.I. by Parks Canada and the Island Nature Trust, plover numbers have been holding relatively steady in recent years, she said. But Islanders still have an important role to play. "The biggest thing we can do is just be mindful ... If there are signs up, just know that there are plovers presents and you're probably not going to be able to see them," she said. "Keep your dog on a leash, because even if you can't see them, your dog probably can. And it's not a lot of work for a dog to chase after a plover." Another tip: Walk on wet sand when you're at the beach. "They usually nest in the dry sand, and their nests are very, very well camouflaged as well. So if you just walk on the wet sand, you're kind of reducing the chance that you could accidentally step on a nest or on a bird," Cahill said. She added that piping plovers often prefer wide sandy beaches along P.E.I.'s North Shore. Get involved to help survey Islanders can also help by joining the Coastal Guardian program run by Island Nature Trust. Volunteers can sign up to help survey beaches and coastal ecosystems across P.E.I. for species at risk and monitor ecosystem health. There are two streams that people can take, surveying for either bank swallows or piping plovers, based on their interest, training level and location, Cahill said. For those living near beaches where piping plovers are often seen, volunteers are asked to go out about once a week. "They will survey for piping plover and basically just provide us with updates as to what they're doing, and talk to the public and spread the word," said Cahill.
