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“It’s our duty” transcript

[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] [...]

Hockey… It’s all we’ve got

This moose will not hestitate to stomp you if you make fun of his face paint. Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons, with a little Canadian touch up.

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 [...]

Subtlety and screaming

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 unforgiving drums [...]

Transcript: Beating the odds

NugentBeatingtheodds 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: [...]

Beating the odds

todd wedding

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.

Canadian musician encourages Fredericton youth to make responsible choices

Mitch Dorge from the Crash Test Dummies listens to an up-and-coming drummer. Photo by Stew Corbett.

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 [...]

Meredith O’Hara

Working for the CBC

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 [...]

Jail term probably saved man’s life

It's not pretty, but warmer than a park bench. Photo from the web

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 [...]

Speed radar signs keeping kids safe: principal

Google Image:  Radar signs discourage speeding

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 [...]

Town hall meeting gives power to the people

The crowd brought signs and tshirts to prove their point. Photo submitted

With six weeks to go until the sale of NB Power, many New Brunswickers are concerned. They’re confused about the lack of information about the updated Memorandum of Understanding; and they’re worried the province’s largest industry is keeping information about it out of the newspaper media they control. Yvonne Devine is the chair of the [...]

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