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Descrease article font size Increase article font size Environment Canada has issued special weather statements for Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, as both provinces are expected to receive heavy snow, freezing rain and ice pellets on Thursday. The statement for Nova Scotia covers most of the province, with significant winter …
Read More »Watch this N.B. artist create a massive moose in the snow using his footprints
Graphic artist Eric Goggin of Salisbury, near Moncton, spent three hours outside his cottage designing a moose, using only his footprints and some fishing twine. News Source link
Read More »Axes and armour: Athletes fight in medieval combat arena for sport in N.B.
It’s midday on a recent Saturday in a quiet Sackville neighbourhood. You can hear the echoes of a small crowd chanting as heavy metal swords clash against armour. Hidden behind the gate of one of the homes on this street are dozens of vehicles, an audience seated on stands —facing a patch of …
Read More »‘I started to vomit blood’: Why an ER nightmare is shaping how an N.B. man will vote
When Tim Kennedy thinks back to his emergency room experience this past summer, he knows he could have died. The Fredericton-area man went to the ER at the Dr. Everett Chalmers Regional Hospital on Aug. 24 in extreme pain. After nearly 10 hours in the waiting room, he began vomiting …
Read More »Son of man who died in N.B. ER says premier using death to score ‘political points’ – New Brunswick
The son of a 78-year-old man who died in a Fredericton emergency department after waiting to be seen for nearly seven hours says New Brunswick’s premier is using his father’s death to score political goals ahead of an election. Ryan Mesheau said he was taken aback by Premier Blaine Higgs’s …
Read More »Demand for summer meal programs for students increasing at N.B. food bank – New Brunswick
Students are off for summer break and that means a pause in school lunch programs, but for families that rely on those meals, it’s a difficult time. The Oromocto Food Bank in New Brunswick is reporting a major increase in demand this summer from schools around the area. Jane Buckley, …
Read More »Slide shared by N.B. premier ‘gross misrepresentation’ of sexual health presentation
The sexual education slide that angered New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs is the first of more than 100 in a presentation about healthy relationships and sexual health that is given to high school students across the country, reporters learned Friday. Teresa Norris, president of the Montreal-based organization HPV Global Action, …
Read More »Family horrified after grave of N.B. murder victim found burned
The family of a New Brunswick murder victim says they are devastated after finding the grave of their lost loved one vandalized last week. Lenore Polchies, mother of Lucas Solomon-Polchies who was killed just over a year ago, says when she arrived to the graveyard on Wednesday evening where her …
Read More »N.B. woman must move to Toronto for life-saving lung transplant. She can’t afford to go
Right before Yvette Taylor’s husband died a year and a half ago, she made a vow to him — one that’s proving costly to fulfil. The 67-year-old New Brunswick woman promised she would get a life-saving procedure and keep strong. “I made a promise to my husband that I would …
Read More »Satellite built by N.B. students not responding a week after entering Earth’s orbit
Hundreds of post-secondary students in New Brunswick are patiently waiting for a call from Satellite Violet. The student-built project took more than five years to develop at campuses across the province and is not communicating as expected. The satellite was delivered by a rocket to the International Space Station in …
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