Morning North

Chris from Sturgeon Falls had his chance to shine on the Morning North Mystery Game. Find out how things turned out...

This week, we cover the news of the restructuring plans for Laurentian University including reaction from students, politicians and listeners, more vaccines are distributed in northern Ontario, and a Sault Ste. Marie man runs a marathon a day across the country.

This week, we follow developments in the restructuring of Laurentian University, post-secondary students share stories about learning during the pandemic, pharmacists start administering COVID vaccines, and a Sudbury city council makes an angry face when it comes to emojis on a Facebook group.

It was a good day for Warren Lindsay of Astorville. He was our first caller to get through for the Morning North Mystery Game. He managed to win some swag from the CBC Vault. Find out if you could have done the same.

This week the latest Covid cases at Health Sciences North, why some health care workers are not taking the Covid vaccine, Laurentian University gives incentives to professors to retire, the president of the CBC, and an April Fool's joke.

This week we hear about frustrations with the rollout of the Covid-19 vaccine, we remember similar issues with the polio vaccine in the 1950s, municipal news from Sudbury, Elliot Lake, Kirkland Lake and North Bay, and a chat with a woman who goes Tik Tok viral dancing on Lake Nipissing.

After initially not getting a contestant for our Friday game show, Laura called in from Sudbury to take a crack at winning some CBC prizes.

This week Sudbury and Manitoulin move from the COVID red zone into grey, mass vaccination clinics start in Sudbury and not everyone is happy, we look at the impact the pandemic has had on real estate in the north, the province's closure of several youth justice centres, and police investigate laser beams pointed at aircraft.

It was just a coincidence, but our contestant Mike of Elliot Lake had a question about the very city he lives in on the Morning North Mystery Game. He answered that one correctly to win one of the mystery prizes in the CBC Vault. You can find out if he had the correct answer for all the other questions. Have a listen...

Who knew a CBC mug could bring such joy to a person? Phil from New Liskeard was delighted to win one. Find out what else he won in this week's edition of the Morning North Mystery Game.