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 [...]
Last week, every cab company in Fredericton upped their fare price. With record-high gas prices, companies said there was no way out. Most fares went up to $1, and for some distances the increase was less. For ABC Taxi, the minimum fare for short distances was $5.50. Now it is $6. Mike Bacon, owner [...]
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 [...]
New Brunswick is at the top of a list you don’t want to be on. The province is home to two of the top three cities with the highest rates of reported sexual assaults in Canada. A study by McLean’s Magazine in 2010 found that Saint John was the city with the highest rates, while [...]
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 mountain of information that can tell you everything about your body, even the things you may not want to know.
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. [...]
There hasn’t been much in the news about the municipal elections so far. But now that the nominations for all ridings have become official, the Daily Gleaner and other local news sources like Fred FM should be amping up coverage. This year there’s a new candidate in the mayoral elections. Matthew Hayes has big ideas [...]
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