The road to Juniper, New Brunswick, is long and curvy. It passes by hills and forests, small farms and towns scattered along a green river bank. One of them is a small, wooden house beside a white barn. Two dogs watch sleepily from the porch, the first flies of an early spring humming around their [...]
Cynthia McEwen’s husband, Tim, was haying on the family’s seventh-generation dairy farm in Penobsquis, New Brunswick, in 2004. While on the tractor, Tim looked over the side and saw in the distance that the hay was in an awkward position. He got off the tractor and walked over to look and saw a huge hole [...]
The New Brunswick government passed the “Right to Information and Protection of Privacy Act” on September 1. To test how well they could handle the new laws, The New Brunswick Beacon submitted 100 Right to Information requests and tracked their responses. Below is a visual representation of the date we collected. Click here for the [...]
Government agencies have flouted the law, and failed to live up to New Brunswick’s new Right to Information legislation. When the government passed the new “Right to Information and Access to Privacy Act” in September, The Beacon decided to put it to the test. We submitted 100 Right to Information requests to a slew of [...]
YOUR FINAL BIOGRAPHY: A 3 Part Series on the Future of Your DNA by Shane Fowler Your Final Biography: Part 3 – Pick Your Future When a sperm and egg unite it creates the first cell of a child. That cell will double, and double again, multiplying until it has about 10 trillion [...]
YOUR FINAL BIOGRAPHY: A Three Part Series on the Future of Your DNA by Shane Fowler Your Final Biography: Part 2 – Reading Too Far Into It What are the risks of having too much information about oneself? When it comes to reading your DNA, having too much knowledge is not always a good thing. [...]
YOUR FINAL BIOGRAPHY: A Three Part Series on the Future of Your DNA by Shane Fowler Part 1 – A Cheaper Crystal Ball Want to know how you’re going to die? Just spit. Want to know what’s going to make your baby sick? Collect some blood. Inside every one of your cells is a [...]
It was a quiet little town, off the grid. It hugged the American border and had a river separating the two sides of Perth and Andover, or as some of the locals say, Perth-and-over. It was one of New Brunswick’s tiny towns going about its own daily business. One business in the area is the [...]
“Finding your balance is a lifetime high wire journey.” Sheree Fitch, poet and author, is no stranger to the high wire. She wrote those words in her late twenties, while finding her balance between parenting and studying, childhood and adulthood, serious and nonsense, joy and sorrow. Now, at 55, Fitch is a best-selling author, educator [...]
*Warning: story contains some graphic detail Fredrick Wangabo Mwenengabo is getting weaker. He feels a pain in his body, his teeth, and his head. His hands shake when he speaks. A half empty bottle of water stands beside him. It barely ever touches his dry lips. When he laughs, the pain in his ribs makes [...]
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