I love when weird or overly specific regulations are purged from New Brunswick laws: Bars were able to stay open an hour later from February 7-10 2008. The reason: Fredericton was hosting the East Coast Music Awards. Cabinet finally repealed it in March, 18 years later.

"We want, once and for all, to receive guarantees that the needed investments will be made in the very near future to avoid this type of situation. Our residents have been suffering for too many years because of the inaction of N.B. Power in our area." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Issues with your NB Power bill? The province has officially asked for a 3rd party review. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Update: Goat Island has been sold for $90k and the new owners say they plan to keep it accessible for future generations of boaters to enjoy. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Goat Island, well-known stopoff for Grand Lake boaters, hits the auction block www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This was a fun one from this week. "It's a great snapshot of what was happening at a given point in time and newspapers capture that almost in an unfiltered way because of the quick turnover." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Last year's literacy results from New Brunswick schools are out and they're not great. Improvements at the Gr6 level but roughly half of Gr4 students did not meet grade level.

“NB Power has to buy generation at the least-cost option. We know that the first of a kind when it comes to the development of an SMR would fall outside of the auspices of that legislation and therefore the utility would be precluded from buying it.” globalnews.ca/news/1006423...

Premier Blaine Higgs says that he can't roll out cost of living measures due to the possibility of an election. globalnews.ca/news/1003636...

On Sept 20th Higgs said: "Parents did not know that in the education system, children were being taught to lie to their parents. They didn’t know and now they do." Now he's being asked to apologize to teachers. globalnews.ca/news/1003329...

New Brunswick's opposition parties say they are deep into election preparations. globalnews.ca/news/1000760...