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This week's collection of Sightings
Just a couple of pics from the wildlife can in our backyard on Coverdale Rd., a few houses away from the Gunningsville Bridge. Laurie Pringle Trail cameras can certainly reveal a lot about your wildlife neighbours, both by day and by night. Laurie got a shot of what I assume to be a rather pale coyo...
Good drink: Summer wines make me feel fine
Refreshing wines are a must in the height of summer.
District is right on staff sick time
The Anglophone South School District is trying to tackle the issue of sick time by school staff, which reached 38,000 days in 2022-23, according to data presented this week.
FITCH: Pharmacy project aims to reduce health-care strain
The Pharmacist Care Clinic pilot project aims to alleviate the pressure on hospitals, practitioners, and patients by providing point-of-care testing for Group A strep, or strep throat, as well as chronic disease management for diabetes, COPD, asthma, and cardio-vascular disease.
HR officers used to urge some school staff to come to work
The Anglophone South School District is sending human resources officers into schools to encourage staff members struggling with attendance to come to work.
THE LIGHTER SIDE: Data my yaas; the big Lamrockski?
Memramcook-Tantramar Green MLA Megan Mitton is pictured here at the Saint John Pride Parade last weekend. She says she had to get a photo with the data-my-yaas sign spotted at the parade.
N.B. vaccine uptake among lowest: feds
The percentage of New Brunswickers who got a COVID-19 vaccine in the last six months is the fourth-lowest in the country among provinces, according to new federal data.
Keep dialing in N.B.’s universities, colleges
UNBSJ's 48th Spring Convocation Ceremony took place at the G. Forbes Elliot Athletics Centre at the Saint John campus.
N.B. town asks province to ban backyard fireworks
Some New Brunswick municipalities have banned the sale and use of backyard fireworks through their own bylaws.
BACKYARD HISTORY: The Maritimes tour that made Houdini
Young Harry Houdini was about to give up on his big dreams of making it in show business, but agreed to do one last tour before giving up. That 1896 Maritimes tour would change his life.
N.B. woman, kids flee wildfires in Yellowknife
The family of Lindsay MacKenzie, formerly of Hillsborough and now in Yellowknife, was packing their belongings into a motor home Thursday to evacuate their home as wildfires threaten the city.
Education council calls for Hogan to act on Lamrock report
Roger Nesbitt, chair of the Anglophone South district education council, says he hopes to meet with other DEC chairs to discuss a common gender-identity policy across all public schools in the wake of government changes.
Publish results of brain disease probe
Green party MLA Megan Mitton makes a convincing argument about the upcoming review of “mystery disease” cases by two federal epidemiologists in September.
'A dream': N.B. hosts Puerto Rican tour operators
Puerto Rican tourism operator Nadine Lugo Abrams, Aquila founder Beth Hatt and Puerto Rican tourism official Crystal Bell visit the Area 506 Waterfront Container Village Wednesday. A delegation of tourism operators from the Caribbean island are visiting Saint John to learn from the local cruise indu...
EXPLAINER: The legal issues with Policy 713 changes
There are several big legal problems with the government's changes to Policy 713, according to Child and Youth Advocate Kelly Lamrock.
N.B. nurse suspended for social media comments
A New Brunswick nurse was suspended for "disrespectful and unprofessional" social media posts regarding patients and colleagues and has "acknowledged that her comments were offensive and harmful to the nursing profession."
Post-secondary institutions join forces to attract students
Post-secondary Education, Training and Labour Minister Arlene Dunn announces Study NB, a new collaboration between post-secondary schools for student recruitment, both at home and abroad.
BREAKING: Police say body of second missing fisherman found
Two men went missing after heading out for a fishing trip off the Acadian Peninsula.
Mass Casualty proposal 'contrary' to other reports: group
Michael MacDonald, a retired chief justice of Nova Scotia, was the chairman of the Mass Casualty Commission that investigated the killing of 22 people in Nova Scotia in 2020. The commission released its final report in March, with 130 recommendations.
'Here we go again': N.B. couple wins second lotto jackpot
For the second time in five years, Carol and Charlotte Michaud of Oromocto are celebrating a lottery win
Royals, Alpines meet again Thursday in Saint John
Fredericton St. Louis Bar & Grill Royals pitcher Colby Lyle and his teammates travel to Saint John for a meeting with the AJ's Alpines on Thursday in New Brunswick Senior Baseball League action.
Last week taxpayers gave almost half a billion dollars to a shipyard owned by one of Canada’s richest families.
An aerial image of the Assembly and Ultra Halls at Irving Shipbuilding's Halifax Shipyard.
Policy 713 change likened to comic strip gag
Child and Youth Advocate Kelly Lamrock arrives at the Fredericton Convention Centre to deliver his Policy 713 review on Tuesday.
NORBERT: Public needs input on education
The province's education system needs more local input and less beauracracy, writes columnist Norbert Cunningham.
Keep working toward tax cut
A new Fraser Institute report argues that Premier Blaine Higgs’s positive steps on New Brunswick’s public debt have given him the flexibility to pursue a meaningful tax cut.
Mass casualty report to be discussed at national conference
Michael MacDonald, a retired chief justice of Nova Scotia, was the chairman of the Mass Casualty Commission that investigated the killing of 22 people in Nova Scotia in 2020. The commission released its final report in March, with 130 recommendations.
N.B. educator dumped for 'serious professional misconduct'
A former New Brunswick educator accused of sexually exploiting a teenage boy - a charge that was later dropped - has had her teacher's certificate permanently revoked for 'serious professional misconduct,' according to the province.
Policy 713 changes break several laws: advocate
Child and Youth Advocate Kelly Lamrock is poised to share his review of the province's controversial changes to Policy 713, which sets gender rules in public schools.
More changes needed for criminal pardon process: advocates
Judy Murphy, executive director for Elizabeth Fry Society New Brunswick, is pictured in this file photo.
QMJHL meets with teams to discuss fighting
The QMJHL is increasing its penalties for fighting for the 2023-24 season.
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