Apr 14, 2012 | The road to Juniper, New Brunswick, is long and curvy. It passes by hills and forests, small farms and towns scattered along a green river bank. One of them is a small, wooden house beside a white barn. Two dogs watch sleepily from the porch, the first flies of an…
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Apr 14, 2012 | Cynthia McEwen’s husband, Tim, was haying on the family’s seventh-generation dairy farm in Penobsquis, New Brunswick, in 2004. While on the tractor, Tim looked over the side and saw in the distance that the hay was in an awkward position. He got off the tractor and walked over to look…
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Apr 14, 2012 | Last week, every cab company in Fredericton upped their fare price. With record-high gas prices, companies said there was no way out. Most fares went up to $1, and for some distances the increase was less. For ABC Taxi, the minimum fare for short distances was $5.50. Now it…
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Apr 14, 2012 | The New Brunswick government passed the “Right to Information and Protection of Privacy Act” on September 1. To test how well they could handle the new laws, The New Brunswick Beacon submitted 100 Right to Information requests and tracked their responses. Below is a visual representation of the date we…
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Apr 14, 2012 | Government agencies have flouted the law, and failed to live up to New Brunswick’s new Right to Information legislation. When the government passed the new “Right to Information and Access to Privacy Act” in September, The Beacon decided to put it to the test. We submitted 100 Right to Information…
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Apr 14, 2012 | New Brunswick is at the top of a list you don’t want to be on. The province is home to two of the top three cities with the highest rates of reported sexual assaults in Canada. A study by McLean’s Magazine in 2010 found that Saint John was the city…
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Apr 14, 2012 | Want to know how you’re going to die? Just spit. Want to know what’s going to make your baby sick? Collect some blood. Inside every one of your cells is a mountain of information that can tell you everything about your body, even the things you may not want to…
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The plight of local farmers
Apr 14, 2012 | The road to Juniper, New Brunswick, is long and curvy. It passes by hills and forests, small farms and towns scattered along a green river bank. One of them is a small, wooden house beside a white barn. Two dogs watch sleepily from the porch, the first flies of an…
Penobsquis, NB: A divided community
Apr 14, 2012 | Cynthia McEwen’s husband, Tim, was haying on the family’s seventh-generation dairy farm in Penobsquis, New Brunswick, in 2004. While on the tractor, Tim looked over the side and saw in the distance that the hay was in an awkward position. He got off the tractor and walked over to look…
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