Shift (NB)

You may hear their honking early in the morning or late at night - Canada geese are migrating back to our region in time for spring nesting season. But not everyone is happy about their return. We’ll talk about our love/hate relationship with geese.

Organic farmer Tim Livingstone of Strawberry Hill will join us on What's Cooking. Tim loves a crisp, sweet carrot - and he'll tell us why. 

Engineering students at UNB will be showing off some pretty incredible projects this week. We'll hear from a couple of students who are working on something called force myography, which could be a gamechanger in the world of prosthetics. Students Julia MacPherson and Sarah Boyd will explain.

A bald eagle appears to have been in a bit of a fight - one he did not win. It landed him a trip to the Atlantic Wildlife Institute for some R & R. We'll speak with Pam Novak.

Another North Atlantic Right Whale was found dead this week...a female, and mother to a calf born this year. We'll speak with Philip Hamilton at the New England Aquarium.

Are open houses just for nosy neighbours and looky-loos? Or can they really help sell your house? We'll check in with Saint John real estate agent and columnist Jake Palmer.

More and more new shows and movies are borrowing stories from the world of video games. And there are some more big names coming to screens this year. Associate producer Danielle McCreadie tells us what she's keeping tabs on.

The province's minimum wage went up yesterday. But so did electrical rates. And beer prices. And gas taxes. What does life look like on $15.30 an hour? We'll speak with Janelle LeBlanc, the provincial coordinator of the Common Front for Social Justice.

The Frye Festival is marking a significant anniversary this year - 25 years! We're going to be talking about the festival all month long. We'll begin today with a look at the Frye's origins, and how it's managed to stay relevant in a changing literary scene.

When we last heard from Alain Clavette, he took us on an owl prowl, looking and listening for Barred Owls in the woods. It turns out the very next night, he had another owl experience, this time in his own backyard!