“We should endeavour to educate our younger people to know what it has meant and what has gone.” Those are the words my grandfather, Norman MacPhee, shared with a reporter more than three decades ago….
There’s a shelf on our family bookcase reserved for East Coast authors. (Yes, I organize by theme, and ‘local interest’ takes centre stage.) I was pleasantly surprised when I took inventory of the New Brunswick…
Playgrounds are big business. Did you know that one piece of play equipment suitable for an elementary school has a starting price tag of $50,000? A full design can easily cost in excess of $150,000,…
Salisbury is in an enviable position of being just 25 minutes from the ‘fastest growing urban centre’ on the East Coast – and it’s about to have a brand-new, $16 million elementary school. That’s a huge potential for growth coming to a village of just over 2,000 people with an average home price hovering around $200,000.
I once gave a phone interview to a news agency from my basement. It’s where I was, along with my husband and our three small children, on the morning of June 5, 2014. I was…
Music City. That’s what some people are hoping Moncton can become. The city, Music / Musique NB, and Music Canada are hosting a symposium here later this month (September 2017) to “identify key strategies and…
You start with one small idea. Maybe it’s thinking someone should paint something interesting to look at on a blank wall. Maybe it’s deciding to write something uplifting on a rock and hide it for…
Tucked in among the baby memorabilia in our sons’ memory boxes is an application for a parking pass at The Moncton Hospital. It wasn’t an onerous process to apply, nor was the cost extraordinary. It…
Folks, we need to stop painting ourselves as helpless, rural hicks who can’t get our act together. Because that seems to be the message we’re sending the rest of the country. New Brunswick has a…
I wish Justin Trudeau and Brian Gallant had stayed playing with LEGO. The two political leaders sat together in a Wee College classroom in Moncton this week, building block towers with children. Journalists snapped photos…