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Another round of the Mystery Game is coming up here on CBC Radio 1. It's our end-of-the-week game show, our way to look back at the week that was and reward one of our listeners for tuning in. Each Friday, we come up with five questions. based on the stories that were on Morning North the past week. We have audio clues, clips from those stories, and we have verbal clues from our technician, Roger Corvo. Own if you want, own if you need it.
Preach correctly answered question. Our listener wins a prize. That part is the mystery. The prizes are locked away in the CBC vault, which we will open after each question. can win five prizes. And we do have a contestant standing by ready to play. So you have to just play along and see what you could have won this week on the Morning North Mystery Game.
This week, a contestant who played a couple of years ago, apparently, it's Kip from Calendar. Good morning, Kip. Good morning, Marcus. How are you today? Doing okay, so remind us who you are, Mr. Kip from Calendar. I'm a railroader. I play quite often if I can get through unless Roger cuts me off. He cuts you off at the corner there, right?
Yeah, one of the times because let somebody else play, he said, and I'm okay with that. Yeah, well, that's a good thing. But obviously you want to play, Kip, because you want to win something or what? You just want to show everyone how smart you are. No, I'm not smart. I just pay attention to small details. Excellent. Well, that's a good thing because that's exactly how the mystery game works. So what have you been up to lately, Kip? What's new on the railway?
Not too much. It's, you know, gang season starting, put new track in, new rail, new ties and whatnot, and controlling the damn beavers. So new track, why? Like, doesn't it last for years and years and years? You've got to do a seven-year program, right? You replace ties, let's say, at this piece of track, let's say mile one to two, and then seven years you've got to go back to that piece because...
They do rot, and they cause damage. So you figure it's a seven-year life cycle for a stretch of rail? No, the ties go for 30 years. Okay. But you can't replace every tie. because it's just too much money. So there's a protocol where you can... So every third tie, you replace it every seven years. I get it. I get it. So it's a revolving kind of situation, right? And the rail itself, sometimes it does warp a bit, doesn't it?
Yeah, depends. If it's too hot, it will grow. And if it's too cold, it will break, like shrink. And there have been the odd breakages and all that has to be repaired. And you say the beavers are the worst in the spring. Because what, they'll knock out a section of rail because of the water, a dam or something like that? Yeah, well, the high water on the upstream side, right? And then the downstream side, there's no flow. And so it saturates the bank. And then it's a washout.
Well, it affects roads and everything too. This has been a bad year for flooding. I don't know if on the rail lines. been as bad, but we've had... Same thing as the highway, like Goulet River and all that, same thing. Yeah, wherever there's a rail line, it's going to be affected. All right, well, keeps you busy, right, Kim?
Absolutely. Keeps me employed. Excellent. All right. Well, let's play the mystery game. We've got five questions, five categories. You know how this works. I'll give you the categories. You can go in whatever order you would like. This week, your categories are mining, elections, competitions, education, and health. Where do you want to start? In order. In order. Okay, easy. Mining. This week, we had some northern reactions.
to Donald Trump's plan to mine some critical minerals, we heard from Mark Selby, the CEO of Canada Nickel. So where does the U.S. plan to mine some critical minerals? Underwater. That's right. Deep sea mining. and I've got a feeling you're going to run through these questions lickety-split. You are one for one. You've won a prize. Let's open up the vault and see what you've won.
CBC button. All right, the button is yours to keep, and we're moving on to the election. Remember that, Kip? Federal election? Oh, yeah. Feels like it was ages ago for me anyway. But Tuesday morning of... Of course, we shared the results on Morning North, and we heard from both winners and losers in the North. So it was an uphill battle, but I was ready for the challenge, and I did the best I can. There is no question that this is the most...
consequential election in Canadian history. I'm honored and privileged to see these results. In the end, only two parties won seats in northeastern Ontario, the Conservatives. and the Liberals. Your question, Kip, how many seats did each party win in the Northeast? Oh, in the Northeast. Yeah, and we have six. ridings in the northeast. So how many went liberal? How many went conservative? I think it was a match. So the number is? Half. I'm trying to get you to say the word.
Three, but that's okay. Three each. So three for the Conservatives, three for the Liberals. What did you think of the results overall? Disappointing. Disappointing for you? Yeah. Would you prefer to see a conservative government or a majority liberal government? No, I want more NDP to maybe get a little more than losing. Like, out of 24, they only gained seven, or they only kept seven. That's right, yep. So that really pisses me off. Wiped out almost, but, well, they've got seven.
Better than none. Green party was really wiped out as well. They've only got one for the greens, so. Yeah. Mrs. May. Mrs. May, yeah. She's the last green standing. Okay. You've got your winner. You won, well. Two questions now in the mystery game. You won a CBC button and you've won this. A CBC pen. Okay, a pen. Nice. That's a useful thing. I'm going to bring that next election. You can use it. That would be interesting. Okay. Competitions is your next category.
This past weekend was the Spelling Bee of Canada's Sudbury competition. Scythe. S-C-Y-T-H-E. That is correct. Our following word has two pronunciations. It is desalinate or desalinate. Desalinate. May I please have the definition? To remove the salt from seawater. Desalinate. May you please use it in a sentence? Scientists are working on the best way to desalinate seawater for consumption. Desalinate. Is it proper? It is not proper. May I please have the part of speech? It's a verb.
Thank you. Desalinate. And for your question, Kip, you have to spell the word desalinate. Oh, you bastard. Hi. D-E-S... C-Y... And I don't know the rest. Oh, no. I'm sorry, Kim. I'm sorry. Desalinate a spell. D-E-S-A-L-I-N-A-T-E. That wasn't really fair. If I had my CBC pen, I would have wrote that. while she was saying it. Oh, there you go. I'm sorry. You didn't win a prize. I don't know what it is. We've got to open up the vault and see what you didn't get. A CBC lanyard.
Okay, a lanyard. Oh, that's a new prize is a CNC lanyard. But hey, you still get the button and you get a pen. And you've got a couple more questions, and I think you'll be able to get these next couple. One's about education. This week we heard about... Northern College, a Northern College, cutting 22 positions. Christine Morrissey is president of this college. We did everything we could to save as many jobs for as long as we can. So we used things like retirement incentives.
not replacing vacancies and just using attrition to evolve to that. So this college is suspending 10 programs. What's the name of this college? I'm gonna want to say Cambrian. And I'm going to say you are right. Cambrian College is the answer and you've won another prize. A CBC ball cap. The ball cap.
Night. That's good for working out on the rail line. One more question. Health. And this week, our health columnist, Dr. Peter Lin, talked about research related to sleep. Exercise will also get you into deeper sleep because you need to...
your muscles and of course don't watch scary stuff before you go to bed and keep to a regular sleeping time. So Dr. Lin was talking about good sleep hygiene to prevent something bad that can happen during sleep, something that actually can cause premature aging. even contribute to heart disease. What was the topic of Dr. Lin's column this week? I think it was like night terrors or bad dreams kind of thing. That's exactly it. Nightmares. Ever get nightmares, Kip?
Oh, yeah, I relive them. Like, I can get up in the morning to go for a pee and then go back to bed and re-dream just where I left off. Oh, that's terrible. That's not nice. Not nice at all. It's all right if you can control it. Then it's less of a nightmare and more of a dream at that point. But nightmares can be bad for your health, apparently. And knowing that answer was good for your prize collection, let's open up that vault.
All right. CBC mug. The O-N-M-I. And a ball cap and a CBC pen and a CBC button. And so what are you going to do this weekend, Kevin? I'm smoking beef jerky right at the moment, and I'm going to smoke some lake trout later on this afternoon and pile some firewood for next winter. Did you, you're already preparing for next winter? The summer's not even here yet.
Yeah, winter's coming. It doesn't matter what time of year it is. I suppose. So is the trout, did you catch it yourself? Yep. All right. And the beef jerky, any particular flavor or just plain? Teriyaki. Teriyaki, one of my favorites. I also like cracked pepper. I don't know if you've ever tried that, too. Good for you, Kip. All right. Well, you have a good weekend. Enjoy the smoking and the piling of the trees and the lumber. And I appreciate you listening to Morning North this week. Take care.
Thank you, Marcus. And you take care as well and get outside in that back alley and pick up that garbage that was blowing around last week. Yeah, it's actually been picked up pretty good. It's cleaned up pretty nicely, so I'm not sure who did that. It wasn't me, but... It's not bad advice, Kip. All right, have a good weekend. Thanks for listening. Take care. Bye-bye. That was Kip from Calendar. He's our winner this week on the Morning North Mystery Game. For more CBC Podcasts, go to cbc.ca.