Dietitians across Canada are touting the work they do throughout March. Host Khalil Ahktar talks about Nutrition Month, and asks dietician Claire Johnson whether butter is really all that bad.

New Brunswick is back in yellow, and that is being celebrated by people in the arts community. Host Khalil Akhtar speaks to folks at three of the province's soft-seat theatres - the Playhouse, the Imperial and the Capitol theatres - as they take a careful step forward.

Farmers who rely on the temporary foreign worker program are scrambling to adapt their plans this season due to some changes to the rules in this province. We speak to Tim Livingstone at Strawberry Hill Farm.

Our panel of politics watchers will join us to go over this week's news.

High school students in Woodstock will have a chance to fly sky high, thanks to a new aviation program that started this semester. We talk to the man who spearheaded the idea - local businessman and aviation enthusiast Eric Cummings.

Our birder Alain Clavette speaks with New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Ackerman. Her latest book is called The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think.

By the end of this year, plastic utensils, straws and drink stir sticks will be banned in Canada. One thing not on the list is coffee cup lids. Why didn't they make the cut? The CBC's Mariam Mesbah tries to answer that question.

Thursdays we talk about games here on Shift. Right now chess is experiencing a real surge in interest. Jason Manley is Vice President of the New Brunswick Chess Association.

The province kicks off public consultations on health reform tonight. The first of 15 community meetings takes place in Sackville. We'll speak with the MLA there, Megan Mitton.

We check in with a maple syrup producer in the Moncton area who says this weeks' cold snap has made the sweet sap hard to come by. Heather Fraser will be our guest on Homegrown.