Morning North

This week... we remember the Elliot Lake mall collapse from 10 years ago, the story of a children's book that celebrates Indigenous languages and traditions, we also hear about the health benefits of copper, and Backroads Bill Steer takes us to the western edge of Ontario.

Carita from Sudbury took her best shot at the Morning North Mystery Game. Five prizes were up for grabs from the CBC Prize vault. Find out how many prizes she won and if you could have done better.

The Morning North Mystery Game is our weekly radio quiz based on stories we covered on the program. This week, Marsha from Sault Ste. Marie joined us for a shot at some loot for the CBC prize vault. Find out how well she did and how many prizes you could have won.

This week... we get an update on an oil spill at Algoma Steel in Sault Ste. Marie, Ukrainian refugees start arriving in the north, a Sudbury woman believes her drink was spiked at a local bar, we look at the popularity of bear hunting in Ontario, gay Sudbury teacher Patrick Barnholden retires, an 18-year-old gets her commercial pilot's license, and a touching Father's Day story.

Play along with Morning North Mystery Game contestant Darcy of Sault Ste. Marie to find out how many prizes you could have won.

This week... an update on the housing scam involving international students in Sudbury, Laurentian students win a space-related competition in Colorado, a video game gets developed in Sudbury, Winnipeg Blue Bombers head coach talks about his roots in North Bay, Cyril Varney Public School closes its doors forever, and NDP MPP Gilles Bisson reflects on his political career.

This week, we talk to the newly elected MPP for Timmins, we hear how mine waste could be worth billions to the election battery industry, we check out a convocation ceremony at Laurentian University, we visit an accessible community garden in Sudbury, and a North Bay woman shares how her life has an uncanny similarity with one of the characters in the movie Top Gun.

It pays to listen to Morning North. Hazle from North Bay was a perfect example of that as she played the Morning North Mystery Game, winning all 5 prizes from the CBC Prize Vault. Could you have done the same? have a listen and find out.

This week... we meet some international students in Sudbury caught up in a rental scam, a cautionary tale for would-be home buyers, and a missing plane is found in Lake Superior Provincial Park. We also look back at a massive forest fire from ten years ago called Timmins 9, Finlandia celebrates 40 years, and a 76-year-old woman from North Bay writes a non-fiction children's book about a goose.

This week we continue our election coverage with stories about opioids, French language rights and animals, we hear about the efforts to preserve Wolf Lake with the help of birds, Backroads Bill Steer travels over 2000 kilometers in under 41 hours, and the first tackle high school football game is played in Sudbury.