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 [...]
Activists in Fredericton are disappointed tonight after the anticipated resolution by city council to ban shale gas didn’t happen. After a presentation by anti-shale gas activist, Mark D’Arcy, that stressed the health and environmental risks shale gas development poses for Fredericton, Mayor Brad Woodside quickly moved to the resolution. “Thank you for the presentation,” Woodside said before motioning [...]
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 [...]
A provincial social assistance program on First Nation communities in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island has been put to a halt. Justice Sandra Simpson granted a temporary injunction assessing that the changes would be harmful, and that the federal government failed to follow due process; rules to ensure both parties are treated [...]
“Here, David, take this cushion for your back. You always sink into that couch.” Peggy Richards hands her husband a large red pillow. He holds it behind his back as he lowers himself slowly onto the seat cushions. He sinks just a little. The early afternoon sun fills the cheerful living room, lighting up the [...]
Students looking for a shuttle home for the March break won’t be getting any help from the student unions. The St. Thomas University Student Union and the University of New Brunswick Student Union will not be offering shuttle services this weekend. Both unions organized shuttle buses to get students home for Christmas break, however, the [...]
One of the darkest periods in New Brunswick’s history was when it auctioned off its poor to the lowest bidder in the late nineteenth century. Later this month, Theatre New Brunswick will revisit this period in their production of The Dollar Woman . The play was written in the 1970s by Alden Nowlan and Walter Learning, [...]
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