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Another edition of the Morning North Mystery Game is about to begin. This is our Friday game show on Morning North. Our way to look back at the week that was and reward one of our listeners for tuning in. We have five questions based on the stories that were on Morning North this week. We have audio clues, clips from those stories, and if you need it, our technician, Roger Cotevo, will give you a verbal clue.
For each correctly answered question, our listener will win a prize. That part is the mystery because the prizes are locked away in the CBC vault, which we will open after each question. to see what our listener wins or could have won. We do have a contestant standing by, so you're just going to have to play along and see what you could have won this week on the Morning North Mystery Game.
This week's contestant is from Sudbury. It's Thomas. Morning, Tom. Good morning. Do you go by Tom or Thomas? Tom, usually. Tom, usually. All right. Different people call me different things. What's your story, Tom? Well... I've been living in Sudbury probably just over 10 years ago. 10 years. My wife is from Sudbury. I went to Cambrian College. I'm an early childhood educator. We live in Sudbury. I've got two kids, a dog, a cat. I don't know. We sound like a very, very normal family.
Wife, dog, cat. Yep. Job. Pretty regular, I guess. I guess so. And what do you do for fun, Tom? I've got... Pretty big vegetable garden and a bit of flower gardening. I like to get outside and hike and bike. And this year we got a trailer out of Fairbank Park, like seasonal. Oh, nice. We tried to get out there. Have you set it up yet for the season yet? Yeah, we're out there on the 2-4, I guess the 16th or something. The 2-4 that was early, we set up.
It was really cold. And it's kind of chilly this weekend. Will you go to camp this weekend, or are you going to plant your vegetables? No, we'll go just one night, though. All right. And have you put anything in the garden yet for this year? Yeah, well, garlic came out from last year. Of course, yeah. And some beets and potatoes. Nice. Yeah, that's what I'm saying, parsnips.
All right. And do you do tomatoes or giant pumpkins? No giant pumpkins. I wish. I don't have a lot of much space. I'll put tomatoes and they'll pull it go in. I don't know, next weekend or sometime next week. They're just in pots on the windowsill right now. What's your greatest achievement in your garden, would you say, Tom? Are you really good at growing? I don't know. I like to sort of experiment. So I've got a little hydroponic system that produces some really great...
kale and lettuce. Pretty proud of that. That's cool. So that's inside? You do that during the winter as well? No, that's in the greenhouse. So that's three seasons kind of thing. Right. Cool. All right. Well, Tom, I hope you're listening to Morning North this week so you can win some prizes on the mystery game. I hope so. It's on every morning, but with two kids and getting out of the house to the job.
Yeah. Tune in, tune out, you know? Absolutely. It's always on in the background. I get it. So how old are the kids? Nine and six. Okay. So very busy and a lot of chatter, a lot of talking, a lot of questions. Oh, yeah. Lots, lots, lots. Okay. Well, I've got five categories, five questions. You can go in whatever order you would like. The questions this week are... about health, money, politics, the environment, and hobbies. What would you like to try first?
Can you do that? Reverse order. Reverse order. We can do that. We'll start with hobbies. Ken Reed of Owen Sound is spending a good chunk of his retirement building things out of Lego. His latest project has more than 92,000 pieces, and he spent six to eight hours every day working on it. January. Working on nose, working rear end, it all opens. Full car deck. We'll hold about 100 and some cars.
There are 600 minifigs on the deck and inside the cabins. It's fully detailed interior. So what did Ken make out of Lego? He made the Chichimon. That is right. So you must have heard that one. Oh, yeah. My son is very into Lego, and we try to write the Cheech one at least once a year. Fun. So really hoping to see that.
Yeah, well, someone was saying it should end up on the Chichimon, like it'd be nice to have it on display there. Ken doesn't know exactly where it's going to go, his Lego creation. He says after a couple of years, he usually just takes things apart and builds something else. I think you should keep this one. Absolutely. That's pretty special to a lot of people.
And you can check it out on our website. There are some great photos with all the detail. He's got like a couple hundred figurines on there. So it's cbc.ca slash Sudbury. Ken, not Ken, Tom, you win a prize. Let's open up the vault and find out what you've won. CBC t-shirt! And a t-shirt! Woohoo!
All right, off to the races here. Let's move on to, we're going reverse order. I think that would be the environment next. We've been talking about trees this week and a provincial program to plant a lot of trees in Ontario. Jess Cacnavicious is the CEO of Forest Canada. They really contribute to your overall well-being. In addition to that, they have huge benefits for wildlife, for things like water quality and water mitigation. So when you look at, you know, they...
increasing floods over the past few years, it's because there's a reduction in that green infrastructure. So we're trying to ensure that this forest cover exists so it can really help us to regulate and prepare for these future climate change impacts and really create resilient communities across. Canada. So how many trees was their goal to plant in Ontario since 2007? Now it's in the millions. Roger is here. He could give you a clue. Oh, what did I hear? Is it 50 million?
That is correct. It's 50 million trees. There you go. Pulled it out. So a lot of trees. And they figure that by this fall they will have reached that goal. You've won another prize. Let's open up the vault and see what it is. A CBC ball cap. Yay! Ball cap to go with a t-shirt. Excellent. You're going to look smart.
Politics is the next category, and there's been a lot in the news this week about a provincial law that would change a bunch of laws. It's called the Protect Ontario by Unleashing Our Economy Act. Here's what a couple of politicians are saying. about it in Queens Park.
Speaker, we need to get rid of unnecessary red tape, make it easier for companies to invest, to hire, and to grow. You can call them special economic zones, but what we know you are doing is opening up the floodgates for an abuse of... power by government. All right, Tom, each bill in Queen's Park is numbered. What is the number of the Protect Ontario by Unleashing Our Economy Act? It is bill what?
Roger is here if you need a clue. Can I ask a clue on that? Roger. Well, you probably have enough fingers on your hand to figure it out. On one hand? On one hand, yes. Is it Bill 5? That's what it is. Bill 5. Good clue. I thought they went in order. No. I don't know how they come up with the numbers, frankly. That's a good question. Good question. But either way...
Tom, you're a winner. Maybe you can find that out. Maybe you can do a story. Well. How do they come up with the numbers? Is it really worth a story, Tom, though? Do you think people really care? That's the only question. But it is. You're the writer. You're the broadcaster. It's curious, and I am curious about it. Anyway, I'll look it up. In the meantime, you have won three out of five prizes. Let's find out what you've got to go with your ball cap and T-shirt. A CBC pen.
All right. Excuse me, Penn. That's fine. That's fine. Penn is good. Money question is next. And this week we talked about... Oh, this is going to be a tricky one. We talked about the MPs in Northern Ontario who either lost... in the last election or they're retiring from politics. They now stand to collect pensions anywhere from $50,000 to more than $100,000. Carol Hughes is one of them.
You know, I don't think that anybody actually goes in there thinking, hey, you know, I'm going to get a good pension. That's why I'm running. I would hope not because it's a lot of work. Now, there are three other MPs who stand to collect their pensions now because they didn't run or lost in the last election. Can you name one of them from northeastern Ontario? Uh, Mantha? Michael Mantha?
Michael Manth is a provincial politician, and it's true he lost to the provincial election two months ago. Oh. So, yeah. Charlie Angus. one of them, who stands to get a pension of $119,000. Anthony Roda, who was the MP for North Bay, $113,000 will be his pension. And that was Mark Seve of Sudbury, or Nickel Belt, $59,000. pension and then carol hughes 99 000 that's what the estimated pension is so i'm sorry tom it's not going to be a clean sweep we still have to open up the vault sure
A CBC lanyard. A CBC lanyard. I'm sorry, Tom. But you still get a ball cap and a T-shirt and a pen. And we've got one more question for you. And it is about health. This week, we heard about a national research project that's meant to help...
help health care providers give better care to some Indigenous people. Elizabeth Edgar Webb-Kanagad of Sault Ste. Marie shared her mom's experience. It took... us a year to get the referral actually happening and by the time we got in another three or four months from the actual appointment confirmation phone call that I received. So what medical condition is the focus of this project? Dementia, I think.
I got so excited I hit my microphone. That's right. I thought that was going to be a tough question. Brain health, dementia, Alzheimer's, that's what the focus of this study is. Awesome. Well, Tom, you're listening very clearly to the radio this week, and you've won another prize. Let's find out what it is. CBC mug. Nice. Whoa! I broke one of those.
I don't know when the last time I had one of those. All right. That's great. You got a CBC mug and a pen and a ball cap and a T-shirt. And you're going to camp for one night. You want to send a shout-out to anybody listening this morning, Tom? Jeez, I know my parents are in BC right now, but I know that they tune in online.
Cool. More days than not. And the mystery game ends up on our podcast. So if they listen to the podcast, they'll be able to hear you win all these prizes. So you tell them to listen to the Boring North podcast and you can share the mystery game. Right. Tom, have a great weekend. I really appreciate you calling in. All right. Well, thank you very much. Take care. Bye-bye now. Bye-bye. That is Tom from Sudbury, our winner this week on the Morning North Mystery Game.
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