Jessica Daigle and Josh Barry came into Wednesday’s final day at the Lounsbury Provincial Junior Curling Championships needing two wins for the title. Both teams then took the ice and won their games and the championships – Daigle by beating Capital Winter Club sides Cathlia Ward 10-7 and Ashley Howard 4-3, and Barry by beating [...]
Lily Boisson, a third-year journalism student at St. Thomas University (STU) got her Canadian permanent residency in 2003. She said she still remembers going to the Canadian embassy and being interviewed as a family. The Haiti-born moved to Canada with her family six years ago. Her family prepared and applied for a permanent residency [...]
The Lounsbury Provincial Junior Curling Championship comes to a climax Wednesday evening with two final games. In the ladies’ draw, defending champion Ashley Howard (Capital Winter Club) faces Jessica Daigle (Thistle-St. Andrews), while the mens’ game features 2007 champion Jon Rennie (Riverside) against Josh Barry(Riverside/Fredericton). The live blog follows below: Lounsbury Provincial Junior Curling Championships [...]
Jon Rennie can lock up the mens’ championship with a win against the all-star Josh Barry team, who’ve only lost once to Rennie this year. On the ladies’ side, Cathlia Ward looks to continue her impressive run in the semifinal against Jessica Daigle. Follow along on the live blog below: Lounsbury Junior Provincial Curling Championships: [...]
Will Ashley Howard and Jon Rennie knock their opposition out of the event? Or will Cathlia Ward and Dmitri Makrides pull off imporessive upsets? Find out below. Lounsbury Provincial Junior Championships, 9:00 AM Draw
A day of upsets and high drama at the Lounsbury Provincial Junior Curling Championships ended with both defending champions clinching spots in the finals. Despite suffering their first losses, Ashley Howard and Jon Rennie both came back to win later on Tuesday to secure their finals berths. Howard, from Fredericton’s Capital Winter Club, lost 5-3 [...]
Jon Rennie and Ashley Howard remained unbeaten Monday at the Lounsbury Provincial Junior Curling Championships – but they had to survive tough challenges to do so. Rennie downed Josh Barry of the Riverside and Fredericton Curling Clubs 9-7 in the afternoon draw at Moncton’s Curling Beausejour before cruising past Riverside’s Josh Pye 10-4 in the [...]
Former champions on the mens’ and ladies’ sides opened Sunday’s play strongly at the Lounsbury Junior Provincial Curling Championship at Moncton’s Curling Beausejour. Two-time mens’ champion Jon Rennie had little trouble winning his two games today, beating Josh Pye 9-6 and Evan MacKnight 11-2, while defending ladies’ champion Ashley Howard thrashed Jennifer Armstrong 10-2. In [...]
Off the ice, Jon Rennie is a relaxed guy, a guy you`d likely find in the headhouse chatting it up with friends, gossipping, and having a good time. When he steps on to the ice, though, his attitude changes. His focus narrows to the painted circles on the other end of the surface. And if [...]
By Maiko Tanabe My friend from Australia went to Japan this summer for a week and he admitted he didn’t know a word in Japanese and didn’t speak any while he was there. And he told me about this language called “Engrish” and about his weird “Engrish” experience. “Engrish” refers to broken English spoken or [...]
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