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Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jul 20th 2021, 12:19 pm
Replies: 606
Views: 77,423
Posted By BristolUK

Re: Local newspaper stories

The Santa Parade from last year was cancelled so he's visiting Moncton with his float (Christmas Lights included) this weekend, July 24th.

https://www.919thebend.ca/2021/07/20/105765/


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Forum: The Maple Leaf
Dec 21st 2020, 4:51 pm
Replies: 606
Views: 77,423
Posted By BristolUK

Re: Local newspaper stories

New Brunswick family creates plastic bubble for son's self-isolation (https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/new-brunswick-family-creates-plastic-bubble-for-son-s-self-isolation-1.5849519)
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Dec 15th 2020, 2:50 pm
Replies: 606
Views: 77,423
Posted By BristolUK

Re: Local newspaper stories

That's possible but it's also possible that more people can afford something but not everything.

One 'advantage' of that sort of scheme is that some expenses are allowed for that would not be...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Dec 15th 2020, 1:08 am
Replies: 606
Views: 77,423
Posted By BristolUK

Re: Local newspaper stories

Manitoba has a pharmacare scheme (https://www.gov.mb.ca/health/pharmacare/general.html). This is possibly another of those situations where people think something is available but it's not for them....
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Dec 14th 2020, 9:53 pm
Replies: 606
Views: 77,423
Posted By BristolUK

Re: Local newspaper stories

Fredericton Grade 1 students surprise janitor with birthday greeting — in sign language (https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1831709251963)
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Oct 30th 2020, 2:35 pm
Replies: 606
Views: 77,423
Posted By BristolUK

Re: Local newspaper stories

To clarify, it wasn't the salary cost of an RCMP officer as against another I was referencing. When I said per head, I meant the general population. The cost of RCMP policing divided by the...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Oct 30th 2020, 12:39 pm
Replies: 606
Views: 77,423
Posted By BristolUK

Re: Local newspaper stories

In my early days in Moncton there was a local forum and there was a small core of posters dead against RCMP and wanting an alternative. I remember they kept pointing to the cost of the local force...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Aug 1st 2020, 7:58 pm
Replies: 606
Views: 77,423
Posted By BristolUK

Re: Local newspaper stories

Unless it's Moncton. ;)
Of course there was that time the mayor decided to lock out the bus drivers and there wasn't a bus for months. :unsure:
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jul 7th 2020, 11:20 pm
Replies: 606
Views: 77,423
Posted By BristolUK

Re: Local newspaper stories

I know the feeling. :nod:

I was just a bit slow on the first post.
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jul 7th 2020, 2:14 pm
Replies: 606
Views: 77,423
Posted By BristolUK

Re: Local newspaper stories

I didn't actually. :( :o
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Apr 24th 2020, 10:55 pm
Replies: 606
Views: 77,423
Posted By BristolUK

Re: Local newspaper stories

It is pretty peaceful. Several years ago I remember posting that the crimewaves making the news consisted of someone breaking into the cash drawers of the machines in the laundry rooms of apartment...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Apr 24th 2020, 9:14 pm
Replies: 606
Views: 77,423
Posted By BristolUK

Re: Local newspaper stories

Not only NB but specifically Moncton :nod:
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Apr 24th 2020, 6:56 pm
Replies: 606
Views: 77,423
Posted By BristolUK

Re: Local newspaper stories

It does happen though. Rare, maybe. Apparently the last one here was in 2010 in similar circumstances a youth was sentenced as an adult.
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Apr 24th 2020, 5:15 pm
Replies: 606
Views: 77,423
Posted By BristolUK

Re: Local newspaper stories

In the local paper today is a report about a youth offender with such a string of offences including guns, violence and breaches of multiple court orders that The Crown wants him sentenced as an...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Feb 25th 2020, 1:16 am
Replies: 606
Views: 77,423
Posted By BristolUK

Re: Local newspaper stories

Is it controversial to wonder that if the effects of these actions were caused by a group of workers on strike that there might have been some 'back to work legislation' enacted by now?
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Feb 19th 2020, 4:45 pm
Replies: 606
Views: 77,423
Posted By BristolUK

Re: Local newspaper stories

It hadn't occurred to me that tax wasn't added.
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jan 22nd 2020, 5:43 pm
Replies: 606
Views: 77,423
Posted By BristolUK

Re: Local newspaper stories

@ Js
I'm surprised you didn't post your local BIG STORY about the 12 year old in handcuffs.
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jan 19th 2020, 10:32 pm
Replies: 606
Views: 77,423
Posted By BristolUK

Re: Local newspaper stories

A few days ago I read a heartwarming item in the local paper about staff at the city library allowing homeless people to pass time in the library, keeping warm, sleeping etc.

A couple of days...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Dec 3rd 2019, 2:06 pm
Replies: 606
Views: 77,423
Posted By BristolUK

Re: Local newspaper stories

Unique firehall/single mothers residence opens in Vancouver.

Elevators only go up. For coming down it's a pole to the ground floor. ;)
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Oct 30th 2019, 3:58 pm
Replies: 606
Views: 77,423
Posted By BristolUK

Re: Local newspaper stories

Ha. A trip fr Trip.
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Oct 18th 2019, 10:22 pm
Replies: 606
Views: 77,423
Posted By BristolUK

Re: Local newspaper stories

That sounds like something straight out of this funny book which I read many years ago. Funny if you have a warped sense of humour and I do....
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Aug 14th 2019, 10:51 am
Replies: 606
Views: 77,423
Posted By BristolUK

Re: Local newspaper stories

On the other hand cats do have nine lives. :getcoat:


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Forum: The Maple Leaf
Aug 13th 2019, 4:39 pm
Replies: 606
Views: 77,423
Posted By BristolUK

Re: Local newspaper stories

It was a small court, in the middle of nowhere with only a general store for company.

Even for much bigger Moncton it's quite noticeable reading the local paper, how often the same three names for...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Aug 13th 2019, 1:25 pm
Replies: 606
Views: 77,423
Posted By BristolUK

Re: Local newspaper stories

Two court reports in the paper today. Same prosecutor, same duty counsel and presumably same judge. Two reports of animal neglect and SPCA seizing animals.

The cat case - 184 cats seized, 110...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Aug 7th 2019, 10:38 am
Replies: 606
Views: 77,423
Posted By BristolUK

Re: Local newspaper stories

It was so much easier on the run in the old days when you just had to head for the tree line when you heard an approaching helicopter and then emerge when you knew it had passed. :lol:
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