Today (November 1st) is All Saints' Day, meaning Saturday is All Souls Day... or Day of the Dead for people from Mexico where it's a celebration of those who've departed. We hear from a local woman from Mexico about what the day means for her and her family. (Krissy Holmes with Claudia Fimbres)

In the next year, we'll see candidates from all political stripes step forward to run in federal, provincial and municipal elections. One group is hoping at least half of them will be women or gender diverse candidates. We talk about the work being done to increase gender parity in politics with two guests: A Mount Pearl councillor who's also on a sub-committee of Municipalities Newfoundland and Labrador called the Caucus for Women and Gender Diverse Individuals, and with a member of an organization called Equal Voice that promotes women and gender diversity in all levels of politics. (Krissy Holmes with Isabelle Fry and Kate Cadigan)

Country, pop, folk or rock. Whatever your preference is... there's a Songwriters Circle coming up Saturday that will cover all the bases. Three of the singer-songwriters involved in the event taking place at the Quidi Vidi Brewery drop by the On The Go studio for a chat. (Krissy Holmes with Justin Fancy, Rachel Cousins and Darcy Scott)

A MUN professor of behavioural neuroscience who is researching fear and how it changes us drops by the On The Go studio to discuss our physical reaction to fear. (Krissy Holmes with Jacqueline Blundell)

Halloween and your fangs do not play well together. We sit down with a St. John's dental hygienist to get some tricks and tips to keep your teeth healthy as the candy tsunami hits. (On The Go's Francesca Swann with Nicole Kielly)

The City of St. John's has streamlined the approval process for wetlands with a formula that will boil their value down to a single digit. Council members voted on Tuesday to pass the use of the Wetlands Ecosystem Services Protocol for Atlantic Canada, or WESP-AC score. (Krissy Holmes with councillor Maggie Burton)

We get some advice from the media relations officer for the RCMP in the province as a piece of metal was discovered in a Halloween candy for the second time this week.

Following that, we hear from the program coordinator for the Trinity Conception Family Resource Centre - whose team made the second discovery. (Krissy Holmes with RCMP Corporal Jolene Garland, The CBC's Heather Gillis with Lisa Evely)

Newcomers to Canada face a lot of challenges. Some are unique to them, like culture shock. And some things are common to everyone, like learning how to manage money. On The Go's money columnist talks about some of the new and different resources designed to help newcomers build their financial life in Canada. (Krissy Holmes with Bruce Sellery)