[VO] Several hundred troops gathered on January 1st to pay their respects and offer a farewell salute for four Canadian soldiers and a journalist killed in Afghanistan just two days before.
[Clip: Carol Grantly] “Unfortunately now, we’re one of the towns, we’re not just somebody mourning, it’s our own, it’s here now.”
[Clip: Joe Bishara] “I think [...]
In the small town of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, there’s a group of junior high and high school students called the Memorial Club. This club has been around for 25 years now and has been honouring Canadian veterans and war dead since they started. In 2006, this group of students started giving out a silver cross [...]
We’ve all seen it, and most of us have done it. We put on our Team Canada jerseys, paint our faces, wave Canadian flags and banners with beer in hand and a moose elegantly seated in our laps. A full-size live one, none of those pansy stuffed things. Hockey fever sets in at every world [...]
Luke Rogerson sits in his dim basement, balled up in an armchair. He’s explaining last night, when the sound guy stomped on the smoke machine half-way through the show because he’d forgotten about it earlier. The make-up smoke plumed up onto the stage, then out into the 200-strong mass of bodies pulsing to [...]
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In: Becky Bourgese mother
Out: Becky couldn’t be happier
Song Intro (00:39)
Intro: (00:13) Becky Bourgese, mother of two, found out her son had a very dangerous condition called cystic fibrosis when he was three years old. Bourgese noticed a couple of signs that lead her to the diagnosis of her son Todd.
Bourgese: (01:63) the first sign is [...]
Becky Bourgese was told her son Todd would die at the age of 14 or 15. Todd is now 33, and starting his own family.
Mitch Dorge, drummer for the Canadian band Crash Test Dummies, was at Bliss Carman Middle School in Fredericton Thursday night giving a presentation on making responsible choices with drugs and alcohol.
After the Crash Test Dummies went on hiatus in 2001, Dorge started building a program aimed at inspiring people to go out and pursue something they [...]
It’s been a year and a half since I graduated; I’m the producer for a morning show on the #1 radio station in Calgary and I love it. It’s not the job I thought I would have at this point but it’s a great job in a great city. But my road to this job [...]
A Moncton man’s desire to have a drink may have saved his life. With temperatures hovering well below zero, a judge’s decision to lock up a repeat offender could be the warmest news this homeless man has heard all winter.
Bernard Patrick Gallant, 58, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty in a Moncton courthouse last week, [...]
The principal at Fredericton’s newest middle school said students are a lot safer now, thanks to a new speed radar sign installed near the school zone.
Bliss Carman Middle School Principal Peter Steeves said the new speed radar sign installed in his school zone is making a big difference.
“It has slowed the traffic down, and you know that [...]
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