Shift (NB)

What's in your quirky collection? We'll hear about one man's vintage license plate collection, which includes several interesting New Brunswick plates. And Danielle and Vanessa share what's in their collections.

We learned this week that on average about 250 public housing units sit vacant every month. But there are thousands of New Brunswickers on the waitlist for those units, and there are even fewer options when you have limited mobility. We speak with Haley Flaro at Ability NB.

Dylan Papazian-Clare bought his first pinball machine about six years ago and fixed it up. Now his basement is full of them! He hosts other pinball lovers in a local league he started in Fredericton.

We're off to the Hayes Farm in Fredericton to meet chef in residence - Dallas Tomah. He's focused on seasonal eating and making use of what you can grow and forage locally.

Alain Clavette takes us on one of his pelagic birding trips in the Bay of Fundy.

Monarch butterflies have been arriving in our region over the last couple of weeks, and locally, the numbers don't look too bad. But it's a different story when you look at numbers across the continent over the last couple of decades. An international group has just declared the butterflies endangered. We speak with naturalist Jim Wilson.

The film 'Last of the Right Whales' takes a look at how whales struggle when they become entangled in fishing gear, and the advances being made in fishing gear to prevent that. We speak to filmmaker Nadine Pequeuneza.

We continue our look at mountain bike trails around the province. This week we're off to Rockwood Park in Saint John with a Women's+ riding group called the Queens of Carnage.

The province's decision to remove Dr. John Dornan as Horizon CEO is concerning a rural action group in Sackville that's been working to increase ER services in the town. We speak to co-chair John Higham.

How can the partially elected boards of Horizon and Vitalité be replaced by trustees? Constitutional lawyer Lyle Skinner has been looking at the legislation - he has some answers. We'll also hear from John McGarry. He was the CEO of Horizon Health for four years. He was then tapped to head the Horizon health board in 2019, and he was fired two years later, after he criticized the health department. We'll get his take on what's happened over the last week.