by Oscar Baker | Jan 24, 2018
A new series of retreats geared at keeping young immigrants in New Brunswick is focused on building leadership skills in its 28 teenaged delegates representing 10 nationalities to help them start projects that will make life better in their communities. “We not only...
by Oscar Baker | Dec 4, 2017
Mi’kmaq filmmaker Heather Condo’s short doc ‘My Father’s Tools’ is Vimeo’s first-ever Indigenous-made film to be selected for its popular staff pick premieres. “I hope it opens doors for other Natives to step into that [filmmaking]...
by Oscar Baker | Nov 28, 2017
Mike Leblanc is a tech sector veteran with literacy on his mind. Digital literacy to be exact. Leblanc is the founder and CEO of Blue Spurs, a Fredericton-based information technologies (IT) consultancy that earlier this year created a classroom kit designed to...
by Oscar Baker | Nov 22, 2017
I was just a toddler when I’d ask mom to tell me the story of Moses again and again. I’d be sitting bedside with my little brown feet swaying, wide eyed as I heard the tale of Moses floating away in a basket surrounded by reeds. When I was seven I was already aware...
by Don Dennison | Dec 12, 2014
It was past midnight on a cold January night in 1973 when the van rolled up to the entrance of Fredericton’s Lord Beaverbrook Hotel, an adequate hostelry that quite never lived up to its name. The gaggle of passengers discharged had been driven up from Moncton, where...
by Kate Wallace | Nov 7, 2014
The cheery ringtone of my cell phone jarred me from my reverie. I was travelling by bus through northern New Brunswick on a golden autumn day in late October. My companions were 20 New Brunswickers under the age of 40 with whom I comprise this year’s 21 Leaders cohort...
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