A bird who should be in a warm climate found winter. This Painted Bunting, very rare for #NewBrunswick, #Canada is surviving at a home feeder in Bayside, NB. Thanks to the homeowners for taking care of this beauty and putting up with birders coming for a peek. #birds #wildlife #bunting #nature

ICYMI Ducks-capades! In which a duck faithfully imitates a curling rock.

Progressive Conservative MLA Kris Austin will not run for the provincial party leadership. Story posting soon; video is here: www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

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Rosa is retiring from the Great Canadian Bagel at Priestman and Regent today. She started working there in 2000, the same year I started at CBC, and has sold me a ton of bagels over a quarter century. (Chicken salad on cheddar herb — the best.)

The Secret Trial of the General Who Refused to Attack Tiananmen Square www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/w...

Price of gas did indeed drop 7+ cents per litre over the weekend.

Whenever I see someone post "the world is really bad right now" I have to resist indulging the small part of me thinking "I have some bad news about all of history"

Hell yeah.

Holt Liberals say a cut to gas prices is really on the way this time after a staffer discovered another way to tweak the regulatory price-setting formula: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Ukrainian President Zelensky has just posted a video from the outskirts of Kupyansk, a city Putin claimed Russian troops captured three weeks ago. Just the edge of the city - but still an incredibly brave thing for Zelensky to do, with drones in constant operation over the city...

Top N.B. court removes private forest land from Wolastoqey title case; Justice hopes ruling offers "clearer path" to reconciliation: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

María Corina Machado, who spent over a year in hiding in Venezuela, greeted supporters in Oslo, hours after her daughter accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in her name. Read more: nyti.ms/44iJP8a

Only one-third of ER patients are seen on time: N.B. auditor-general. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Why are you still paying eight cents extra per litre of gas in New Brunswick? The Liberal bill repealing the cost-of-carbon adjuster left a "void" for a new replacement surcharge: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I'm betting this has a place on @alexmarland.bsky.social 's to-do list.

Bus Stop, Fredericton, N.B. Molly Lamb Bobak n.d.

Carbon adjuster vanishes Monday? EUB rules surcharge remains in place: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Steven Guilbeault, May 14, 2017, during our interview for my pipeline book, on mainstream political and regulatory processes: “We thought it was better for us to participate in a deficient process while demanding changes than to not be there at all. … We don’t like the strategy of the empty chair.”

Canadian Heritage Minister and long time environmentalist Steven Guilbeault resigns his cabinet post over changes to #environment policies. Latest details here: www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Saw that MPs are set to honour long-serving MP Louis Plamondon -- here is his must-read advice to members in 2019 :)

🎶 Just dropped in / To see what condition / Those Sisson conditions are in … www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

More on Pierre Poilievre's N.B. visit & other big political stories of the week in my newsletter tomorrow morning. Subscribe now: substack.com/@jacquespoit...?

My full interview with Pierre Poilievre is now online: www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given surprising new insight into the online “America First” movement.

N.B.’s Sisson Mine on the federal fast track? Pierre Poilievre isn’t convinced. Story + video: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The prevailing ethos of smart phone software updates seems to be, “We’re gonna put that convenient function one additional click away from you.”

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N.B. budget deficit projected to reach $834.7 million in fiscal 2025-26; Liberal finance minister won’t rule out it surpassing $1 billion.

On this day in Canadian parliamentary history - November 14, 1953 - President Eisenhower addresses Canada's parliamentarians. Random trivia: Eisenhower is the US President whose remarks to Parliament included the most words spoken in French.

The Supreme Court of Canada heard arguments today on whether the Constitution requires New Brunswick's lieutenant-governor to be bilingual. No decision today, but here's the rundown: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Did you catch Mark Carney’s smile and body language when he was asked on Monday about the Sisson Mine? Here’s what that project is all about and what “national project” status could mean: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Proposed N.B. data centre would gobble up equivalent of nearly half of Tantramar gas plant’s electricity: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The Expos documentary on Netflix is very good. ⚾️

Main Street Alex Colville 1979

À voir absolument ⬇️ 🦞 Pincer les braconniers | Enquête ici.radio-canada.ca/tele/enquete...

Who wants a very detailed poll-by-poll map of the last election you can go scour? Kyle Hutton put in the leg work and you can check it here! -> app.atlas.co/shared/uhOeG...

While researching my current column, I had trouble finding something PM Carney said in a speech in either Factiva or Google, so I tried asking ChatGPT-5 to search for it. This was its internal response. It hallucinates in basic searches. It can't write truth. It can't copyedit. What is it good for?

One year after policy change by Holt Liberals, surgical abortion access in New Brunswick remains a work in progress. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Eeeeeee!!! @alexmarland.bsky.social @jaredwesley.ca @mireillelalancette.bsky.social

After months of speculation, the federal government is signaling its intention to eliminate the oil and gas emissions cap. But... www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

🚨Scoop: Nova Scotia MP Chris d'Entremont says he is considering crossing the floor to join the Liberal Party. He tells me he'll make a decision “in the next few days” after reviewing the federal budget. Other Conservatives are also being courted.

A beautiful and wise little book.

Pretty sure that’s a new - though very fitting - cover for Orwell’s masterpiece… (Spotted in a Damascus bookshop window.)

The Art of the Impersonal Essay www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

We are proud to announce that the new Anderson Bridge will open to all traffic by 6 PM tonight. We’ve appreciated the public’s patience throughout the duration of this project.

Holt government eliminating 8-cent-per-litre “cost of carbon adjustor” effective Dec. 1. Story to come.

What if? Long ago, I requested through RTI, and reported on, Premier Frank McKenna's speaking notes in the event of a Yes vote in the Quebec referendum, which was 30 years ago today. I dug them out recently to show younger colleagues.