The other day I came across Travel Alberta’s incredible award-winning (Remember to Breathe) tourism video, which somehow or another brought me to browsing the videos of every provincial & territorial tourism board. It’s great to see how much thought and passion goes into each of these videos, and what better way to explore a location [...]

12 Inspiring Tourism Videos on Canada is a post from: I Backpack Canada

Volkov did some interesting things with the numbers from the recent Saint John poll in New Brunswick. I’ve been able to expand those numbers out to the entire province using the same process that we use to turn province-wide numbers into riding n…

Evidence Extreme Inclusion Advocates Ignore Dr. Gordon Porter was one of the members of NB Premier David Alward’s post election transition team of special advisers.  Unfortunately for many NB students with severe autism deficits he has con…

Evidence Extreme Inclusion Advocates Ignore
Dr. Gordon Porter was one of the members of NB Premier David Alward’s post election transition team of special advisers.  Unfortunately for many NB students with severe autism deficits he has continued …

Well the rumours were that it was going to be Madonna and Coldplay, but if it’s not going to be those two artist, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band will definitely do! It was leaked today that Springsteen will bring his camera humping skills to my home province of New Brunswick, for what is [...]

CANADIAN LABOUR- THE MARITIMES:SUPPORT LOCKED OUT WORKERS AT ACADIAN COACH LINES:Last November workers at Acadian/ien Bus Lines in the Maritimes were locked out by their employer when they refused a concessionary contract offer. The workers involved ha…

Many people make the foolish assumption that snowboarding and skiing is done only out west in the Rockies. While the quality of the snow, the size of the mountain, and the complexity of the runs out in British Columbia and Alberta may be a tad bit higher on the awesome scale, there’s still plenty of [...]

Snowboarding in New Brunswick at Crabbe Mountain is a post from: I Backpack Canada

This sort of bullying story should not exist in a budding police state, err, I mean civilized Canada. How are the “bullies” who assaulted this girl multiple times not expelled from school, and were never arrested and charged with assault? Harassment is illegal in Canada, as is the destruction of private property (her smashed flute, [...]

I had no idea who Max Aitken was until very recently. I swung by a small independent bookstore called Tidewater Books in Sackville one afternoon and found a biography of Beaverbook in the Extraordinary Canadians series. David Adams Richards, the author…

There’s a case going on in Fredericton, New Brunswick that deserves some attention: “Fredericton blogger's arrest attack on civil liberties.” This blogger, Charles LeBlanc, who blogs here, was arrested last week on charges of crim…

Updated below.There’s a case going on in Fredericton, New Brunswick that deserves some attention: “Fredericton blogger's arrest attack on civil liberties.” This blogger, Charles LeBlanc, who blogs here, was arrested last week on charges of criminal…

So, after my post last week on how to get an abortion in New Brunswick, I was contacted by a reader who went ahead and made a flow chart version! So here it is in all its glory, with much thanks and total credit to Ash Furrow:

So, as someone who has gained some notoriety for my involvement in New Brunswick abortion politics, I get contacted a lot about, well, that. Sometimes by the media, most often by Masters students, and every now and then by a friend, acquaintance or str…

The photos that follow show my  walk from my home to my office in beautiful Fredericton, New Brunswick a place I am happy to call home, a place that allows me to take the time I need and want for me and my children. The weather this morning w…

NDP governments and Pierre Trudeau have unlikely fans in the Conservative cabinet

A protest held in Saint John, N.B., Canada, in support of Occupy New York on Saturday, October 15, 2011.

I wrote last time about the projected pipelines that are being anticipated to take advantage of increased production from the oil sands in Alberta, Canada, with the intent that I would use that to lead into a review of the oil sands operation itself. H…

I wrote last time about the projected pipelines that are being anticipated to take advantage of increased production from the oil sands in Alberta, Canada, with the intent that I would use that to lead into a review of the oil sands operation itself. H…

Canadian Press DIEPPE, N.B. – A New Brunswick man who reported his utility trailer stolen earlier this month was quick to call police when he spotted it being towed behind a stranger’s vehicle on the weekend. RCMP say they received a call from the man on Sunday afternoon. Officers later intercepted the suspect vehicle at [...]

New Brunswick’s PC government is the latest to launch an all-out attack on public pensions. And the usual reasons look to apply, with the official press release hinting at a combination of eagerness to foment resentment against the civil service in ord…