Section from the article reading "We have people who are coming from other faiths, Eastern religions, also those who are later in life, even at age 60 or 70 (and) we had about three or four at the cathedral where there was a husband and a wife who were being confirmed."

Would be curious to know how many folks are coming in from other denoms here. The article alludes to converts from other faiths, but all the reporting I've seen on youth in other denoms and jurisdictions indicates that there's just less absenteeism among those already raised in the Church.

Has it always been this bad? My inclination is to pin this on social media, but I admittedly didn't frequent my local timmies in the before-times so I'm not able to verify whether the quality of local discourse was any better or worse.

Love how well Sherman's wharf still shows up in overhead. I also recall seeing some of it poke above the water when the water was real low, but that was long before I knew what it was.

I'm not sure I agree. The marsh at the Nature Park provides me no utility to me beyond being something to gaze upon, but it's worth having. Same goes for the Fundy Bay - it's not parkland, but being able to look out to the Bay from much of the city breaks up any feeling of alienation from nature.

You'd think that Meta not hosting a public-facing mechahitler would make it less harmful than Twitter, but the mixture of its apparent harmlessness and lack of journalism is having a more damaging impact on folks who don't self-identify as terminally online than Twitter madness ever could.

I am not actively using facebook and so I have really only been exposed to this "outrage" via other folks reporting it a second hand basis from facebook. The lesson seems clear to me. Get off facebook, become less deranged. Get your parents and friends off facebook.

Proposal to improve the SJ to Fredericton highway: We replace those flashing lights that alert drivers to the threat of moose with a flag system. Throughout the day we fly the regular NB flag but at night we swap it out with a rampant moose variant.

The salmon and beaver would be totally compliant with the OG coat of arms, so in a four quadrant version this would work excellently

Dare we go even further and adopt a rampant moose ?

Flag of Fredericton

Concept for a new flag of Fredericton

Flag of Saint John

Concept for new flag of Saint John

Being a fan of the NB flag, I think the "banner of arms" approach to flag design is usually promising (or at the very least, constraining in a way that's conducive to avoiding weird elements like the gradients on Miramichi's flag or overly corporatized logos on a white field).

In defense of the state flags YouTube video by Premodernist

Sharing this defence of the default US state flag. It's well worth a watch, and genuinely changed my mind about these flags. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-Ig...

Another segment for the first draft of the inevitable Right Fight sequel! Excellent.

This group makes me so sad. Ive restrained myself from trying to engage with it on facebook, but as somebody who does find wonder in local history it is depressing to see this group basically speedrun the rabbithole from curiousity to conspiracy.

Excellent, thanks! Neat to see that the Pagan house features in two chapters of the border story, being built in Maine and housing one of the surveyors that confirmed the identity of the St. Croix. Ill add it to the roadtrip list.

Interesting story, Jacques! Any insights into which St. Andrew's houses are the transplants?

The TransCanada's route alienates us from the river - it's wild that the drive along the new highway can be the dullest in the province, but if you follow the old highway along the river it becomes one of the most scenic and relaxing routes.

That would make sense! Most of the labels Ive come across are definitely wharves that have been in use since before pre-confederation in some capacity.

Curious. Any ides what kind of info would be associated with a file number? Surveys, deeds, etc.?

Screenshot from GeoNB map viewer showing both an 8 digit PID and a 9 digit mystery code.

Thats what I thought too, but PIDs are shorter. Did we used to use 9 digit PIDs perhaps?

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Screenshot of GeoNB crown grants map with three 9 digit codes highlighted, all written in pencil.

Any NB folks familiar with the Crown Grants map know what these penciled-in numbers refer to? These three look like they are for the covered bridge and former ferry wharves at Bayswater and Kennebecasis Island, but I have no idea what kind of documents are associated with the numbers.

Interpretive sign from the Saint John Harbour Passage profiling the various ferries that crossed between uptown Saint John and the lower west side between 1851 and 1954, the last of which - named the Loyalist - crossed the harbour every twenty minutes, six days a week, from 7 am to 7 pm, and passengers paid 5 cents each way.

Crossings every 20 minutes, 6 days a week from 7 to 7 does sound pretty awesome. www.hmdb.org/Photos5/510/...

Not sure when the rule was written, but it may be worth revising. 3 seems a more reasonable threshold to me given the performance of the Greens and PA recently. That said, if we are going to have a rule, we should actually enforce it instead of just operating on vibes.

I love this book! Revisiting it this week I was reminded that the circumstances and rationale behind Confederation are an apt parallel to our current geopolitical situation... and unlike other historical parallels one could point to, it actually provides an optimistic outlook.

I'm reminded of a euchre tournament in 2019 when my parents began referring to "the Obama" instead of the trump suit lol

Always appreciate your insights on this kind of thing, Lyle!

I'd never heard of this before. Thanks for sharing, Daniel!

My concern is less with how much they're being charged and more so with the mechanism used to achieve it. The same could be said of the Saint John or Moncton airports, but they don't have the same latitude to control the specific tax rate affecting the airport.

Boundaries of the City of Fredericton around the airport.

Back on birdapp I had a post about how silly the subdivision of Lincoln LSD looked when the boundaries were revealed & at the time I chalked it up to being a result of BigOromocto needing the extra residents. Looking at it now though, was this done just to leave the airport in its own rate area?

As the old saying goes, history is written by the vicrors.

It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie - Wikipedia

There's this, but I do not recall it being good. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_...