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Centre-Ville Shediac Downtown offers seven free Thursday noontime concerts

by Le Grenier musique | Jul 13, 2022

A new initiative to bring live music to downtown Shediac during seven summer lunches this Summer begins this week. The series “Lunch time tunes” lunch time is a new concept of the Downtown Shediac corporation

Exceptional programming for the last 20 Summer Nights shows at Euston Park on Parlee Beach in Shediac

by Le Grenier musique | Jul 13, 2022

The Summer Nights series at Euston Park Restaurant on Shediac’s Parlee Beach continues with an exceptional line-up of shows.

The Festival acadien de Caraquet starts in 4 weeks and unveils the last artists of its program

by Le Grenier musique | Jul 13, 2022

The 60th edition of the Festival acadien de Caraquet will begin in one month. The team is busy making final preparations to welcome 64 artists and groups, as well as all their musicians, and a large amount of festival-goers.

A basic income is the answer to poverty

by Guest Post | Jun 21, 2022

Basic income is too complex to implement. So the thinking goes in the latest release by the Atlantic Provinces Economic Council. Yet data from Statistics Canada in 2020 demonstrated that changes to the Canada Child Benefit – a basic income program for families – was largely responsible for a near 4% decline in poverty from 2019 to 2020 alone.

Like puffs of smoke, the years go by

by Lane MacIntosh | Jun 18, 2022

The other day, I was sitting with my old friend Martin Aitken in his backyard in Barkers Point on Fredericton’s north side. We were having a glass of Maker’s Mark and smoking Cuban cigars.

Local artist, Kristen Stackhouse, works with McDonald’s Canada on unique new project

by Guest Post | May 31, 2022

Kristen Stackhouse from New Brunswick is working with McDonald’s Canada to showcase their diverse perspective on sustainability and the environment to mark the company’s transition to paper straws, an important step in reducing single-use plastics at the restaurant.

The Festival acadien de Caraquet: 60 artists for its 60th anniversary!

by Le Grenier musique | May 12, 2022

The Festival acadien de Caraquet is preparing its 60th edition, which will take place from August 5 to 15, 2022. To mark this anniversary, no less than 60 artists and groups will be part of the event, and more than half of the shows presented will be free.

Merry Christmas from Nouzie

by editor1 | Dec 25, 2021

Have a wonderful day everyone.

The day the Daamens came to Minto

by Lane MacIntosh | Nov 4, 2021

No one recalls what the weather was like on September 21, 1947, the day the train carrying Anthony and Henrica Daamen and their children rolled into the Hardwood Ridge station near the coal mining town of Minto, New Brunswick.

When history rhymes

by Lane MacIntosh | Aug 29, 2021

“History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme,” Mark Twain supposedly said.

Shifting perceptions, changing horizons

by Lane MacIntosh | Jul 9, 2021

There’s a lot more to writing than writing. As with life, you have to learn to see and feel and, then, learn to see and feel again. With enough reflection, contemplation, effort and hard work, sooner or later, self-awareness and a sense of wonder reveal that to change, move forward and become authentic, you must reconcile the duality of your life with the duality of your world.

What would Andy Scott do?

by Lane MacIntosh | Jun 6, 2021

As the eagle flies, it’s only about 100 kilometres from Kelowna to Kamloops, British Columbia. But, after the May 27 discovery of the remains of 215 children in an unmarked burial site near the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, it might as well be a million.

Meet the inspiration for our site’s name

by editor1 | May 26, 2021

Have you ever wondered how organizations come up with their name? As you may know Google was actually a misspelling while trying to find if the name googol was available as a domain. If any of you have tried finding an available domain for your organization can be a very long process.