Tourists in New Brunswick tend to gravitate to the Acadian Coastal Drive, according to a 2010 Statistics Canada survey. The region, which begins in Moncton and extends north to Campbellton, has shown a steady increase in the number of visitors it has received over the years. Diane Rioux of Tourism New Brunswick credits the region’s [...]
Brenden Annis has had enough. The 15-year-old Grade 10 student says he feels overwhelmed by excessive bullying at Leo Hayes High School and through social media over the past few months. But it hasn’t been a textbook case of bullying about his appearance or the crowd he associates with. His ex-girlfriend has been harassing him [...]
Hydraulic fracturing is the Bricklin of natural resource exploitation, New Democratic Party leadership hopeful Thomas Mulcair says. Mulcair likened the controversial fossil fuel extraction process to the failed New Brunswick born sports car at a town hall discussion on fracking held Tuesday. “It’s not going to produce a sustainable result,” he said to the group [...]
Snow is falling in Fredericton and all over the Maritimes. Environment Canada has issued a weather warning in North-West New Brunswick where snowfall amounts are expected to reach 30 cm. Environment Canada has also issued a warning to Nova Scotia, parts of Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador. In Fredericton, the light snow that began this [...]
New Brunswick’s crisis helpline took 26 calls from people grappling with suicide in the month of October – three times as many calls as the monthly average. Chimo Helpline, a 24-hour crisis helpline for the province, takes 13,000 calls a year. Of those, between 600 and 700 people are calling about mental illness. They generally [...]
Lily Fraser has been crunching numbers for as long as she can remember. “I’ve always migrated to numbers. I was always strong in math…for me, that’s one of those things that comes easily.” Fraser will be doing her fair share of math this January when she joins St. Thomas University as Vice-President of finance and [...]
In a white-walled classroom,, students prop their chins on their hands and stare blankly ahead at the teacher. Colourful mittens lay on the desk by one girl’s computer, and the boy next to her takes a swig of Coke. All of them have laptops open, and a few are playing around in [...]
Over 600 people packed the Fredericton Convention Centre’s ballroom to talk about the future of New Brunswick’s Liberal Party on Saturday. They called it their “special meeting” – a gathering of party members and non-members to share thoughts and vote on 31 recommendations (which can be found on the party’s website) that were put forward by [...]
The show was sold out. New and old fans pushed themselves up against the stage, fists pumping and singing along. Two bands that stopped producing music since the turn of the century are making a huge comeback. Wide Mouth Mason and Big Sugar played the Boyce Farmers Market on Thursday night. At the core of [...]
Though drugs and alcohol often play a role in cases that come through the courts, it was clear that in the case of William Dempsey, it had been playing the lead role for most his life. At only 25 years old, he stood before Judge Mary Jane Richards, with severe liver and kidney damage from [...]
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