Once again our regular team of Lynn, Wojtek, and me, Marc are here to present some of the many interesting stories we covered this week
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Lynn starts us off with a science story. The sun is going through a period of high sunspot activity and scientists think this will lead to the star switching its polarity.. in other words the north magnetic pole becomes the south and vice versa.
Lynn’s guest Andrew Fazekas says this is something the sun does with regularity about every 11 years. As to why, apparently that remains a mystery.
The great activity meanwhile, means a lot of cosmic particles which can affect satellites even fry their circuits, and Mr Fazekas explains the reasons.
Wojtek has a political story for us. After years of spending deficits, Canada’s finance minister says spending and budgets are coming under control.
In fact Jim Flaherty is promising a budget surplus of over three billion dollars for fiscal year 2015…which is when Canadians will go to the polls in a general election
And I’ll have a story about what is probably the world’s most northerly shipwreck. The three masted sailing ship, HMS Investigator was searching for the lost Franklin exedition in the Arctic when it became stuck in ice for two years.
The crew was rescued by another ship and Investigator was abandoned.
The federal agency Parks Canada located the Investigator and its divers explored the wreck.
Parks Canada is now set to release a picture book with text describing the search for the Franklin mission, and the Parks Canada search and discovery of the Investigator.
The book is called, ““Lost Beneath the Ice, the story behind HMS Investigator and its 1850’s tragic mission to rescue the crew of Sir John Franklin’s lost ships.”
I hope you enjoy listening and please send us your comments or write them on the website.
Marc
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