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Oksana Tesla, the president of the Ukrainian Association of Fredericton, started preparing a traditional Christmas Eve meal with her mother on Dec. 23. On a side table was a candlelabra holding three beige candles. Tesla said those candles sit at the centre of the table during their Christmas Eve meal. …
Read More »Fredericton man loses family members in Turkey earthquake, others living in car
Ahmed Hallaq’s mother was attending to her morning prayers in the family’s apartment in central Turkey last week when she saw the ceiling lamps start to sway. She closed her eyes and went back to her prayers, Hallaq said, which is when she felt the ground beneath her sway and …
Read More »Fredericton ER death compounds grief for mother who lost baby
When Aimee Dunn heard that a patient died alone in the waiting room of a Fredericton emergency department less than four months after she lost her infant in the same ER, she felt grief and rage all over again. “My baby looked perfect,” said Dunn, who had to be delivered of …
Read More »Elderly tenants told to vacate Fredericton apartments for Airbnb-style conversions
A senior Fredericton couple and their elderly neighbour, whose plight with rent increases last winter helped push the New Brunswick government to enhance tenant protections, are facing the loss of their apartments for good. Pauline Tramble, 67, her husband Charles, 85 and their neighbour Tayfun Orkus, 83 all received notices …
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