Away From The Mire – Episode 79 – Nuke Toronto

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Back live this week with some great new tunes for ya. Canada’s finest troubadour B.A. Johnston gets things kicked off with my feelings after another devastating Leafs playoff loss, I’ve got new music from former Presidents of the United States of America frontman Chris Ballew, a reconstructed Pearl Jam track from “The Last Of Us” and plenty more great music!

 

 

BA Johnston – Nuke Toronto
Thunder Queens – Teenage Years
The Presidents of the United States of America – Feather Pluckin
Chris Ballew – Melt Into Me
Pearl Jam – Present Tense (Redux)
No Frills – The Scraps
Kylie Fox, Travis J Flynn – No Mow May
Pavement – Harness Your Hopes
Papal Visit – Angry Young Computer
This Is Lorelei – Perfect Hand
Keepy Uppy – So Be It Union
Le Tigre – Deceptacon
The Chemical Brothers – Let Forever Be
Grand Theft Bus – Roses

 

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Mornings Are Hard || 2025-05-27

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Artist – Track || Album
1.) Wintersleep – Forest Fire || In The Land Of
2.) Thanya Iyer – Low Tides || TIDE/TIED
3.) Stereolab – Melodie Is A Wound || Instant Holograms On Metal Film
4.) Basia Bulat – Daylight || Basia’s Palace
5.) Saya Gray – …THUS IS WHY (I DON’T SPRING 4 LOVE) || SAYA
6.) Alexander Gallant – Me And My Oldest Friend || single
7.) Folk Bitch Trio – Cathode Ray || single
8.) The Sympathies – Time Intangible || My World
9.) Unwed Sailor – Monster Collecting || Cruel Entertainment
10.) Mother Mother – Love To Death || single
11.) Said The Whale – Record Shop || Cascadia
12.) Ribbon Skirt – Wrong Planet || Bite Down
13.) Frankie and the Witch Fingers – Dead Silence || single

Testing For Echo – Episode 77 – Let’s Go Back a Bit, Again – Orig. Air Date May 24, 2025

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Hello there everyone. I hope that you are well with you and thank you for listening to our show.

This is episode 77 of Testing For Echo on CHSR FM 97.9 in Fredericton and around the world and I am your host Tim Scammell.

Before we begin I just want to mention that this is another episode dipping into a more classic Progressive sound.

It’s another pretty full show so let’s get rolling.

Tim

The World of Music, One Song at a Time, Proudly Canadian – Take Good Care

Episode Song List

  1. 10CC – Rubber Bullets
  2. Jon and Vangelis – State of Indepence
  3. Saga – Bet On This
  4. Keith Emerson and Oscar Peterson – Honky Tonk Train Blues
  5. Marillion – Kayleigh
  6. Jackal – For You
  7. Adrien Belew – Lone Rhinoceros
  8. Chris Squire – Lucky Seven
  9. Lifesigns – Altitude
  10. Gary Numan – The Edge of Things
  11. RUSH – Vital Signs
  12. Styx – Lady 1995 Edit
  13. Nash The Slash – In a Glass Eye
  14. Xenicus – Ghost Town
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Mornings Are Hard || 2025-05-23

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Artist – Track || Album
1.) Great Lake Swimmers – One More Dance Around The Sun || single
2.) Cinephonic – La cite engloutie || Refuge
3.) Cinephonic – Refuge || Refuge
4.) Stereolab – Aerial Troubles || Instant Holograms On Metal Film
5.) Sedona – Baby Run || single
6.) bob junior, Hot Flash Heat Wave – Red || single
7.) Men I Trust – Comes Back Down || Equus Caballus
8.) El Tata y Los Taqueros, Maté – Best Life || single
9.) Lou Tides – Autostatic! || single
10.) Swimming Bell – 95 at Night || Somnia
11.) The Burning Hell – Celebrities in Cemeteries || Ghost Palace
12.) We Should’ve Been Plumbers – Life Of Crime (Side B) || single
13.) Bonnie Trash – Your Love Is My Revenge || Mourning You
14.) Kestrels, Weird Nightmare – Lilys || Better Wonder

Homemade Jams || 2025-05-22

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Artist – Track || Album
1.) We Should’ve Been Plumbers – Life Of Crime (Side A) || single
2.) Radiator – You Need To Know || 23 Park Street London UK
3.) Motherhood – Sunk || Thunder Perfect Mind
4.) Mike Trask – 40 Fathoms Back || BEET
5.) Silver Wolf Band – Coffee Pots || single
6.) The Hello Crows – Warbler || single
7.) Happy Al – Scared To Know You || SOMETHING OLD
8.) Beauts – Fall In Flight || single
9.) David R. Elliott – Involved || True Love Forever
10.) Nate and the Busy Boys – Birdy Birdy || Busy Doing Nothing
11.) Jacob Rose – Hold Your Head Up || single
12.) Joel Manchester – Suddenly Violently || single
13.) Abigail Joan – Now I Know || single
14.) The Burning Hell, Lee Rosevere – Luna FM (Lee Rosevere Remix) || single

Harmony Corruption Episode 95-May 20th, 2025

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Hi folks! This week’s episode is a variety show with lots of great tunes from different subgenres. Next week will have the first part of the 1990 retrospective with Stephanie as a guest host!

Here’s the playlist for this week’s episode:

Nails-Unsilent Death

King Diamond-The Family Ghost

King Diamond-The 7th Day of July 1777

Deathrow-The Deathwish

Black Curse-Trodden Flesh

Gorguts-Orphans Of Sickness

Gorguts-A Path Beyond Premonition

Dissection-Maha-Kali

Serpent Corpse-Extradimensional Divinity

Serpent Corpse-Amongst Demons

Serpent Corpse-Into the Wasteland

Serpent Corpse-The Gaping Mouth of Madness

Deathevokation-The Monument

Bathory-Shores In Flames

Convulse-Incantation of Restoration

Alaskan-Inferno

Alaskan-Submerged

Pentagram-Wartime

Pentagram-Starlady

Pentagram-Frustration

Vader-Testimony

Sepultura-Stronger Than Hate

Thanks for listening!

 

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Mornings Are Hard || 2025-05-22

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Artist – Track || Album
1.) Lord Huron – Nothing I Need || single
2.) Kate Maki – At Every Sunset || Impossible Knot
3.) The Hypochondriacs – Waitin’ || Waitin’
4.) Mike Trask – Landing Day || single
5.) Campbell & Johnston’s Black Market Band – Righteous || Paisley Hearts
6.) Chris Kirby – Pot Of Gold || What Goes Around
7.) Ryan Marino, Jonathan Marrino – The Grass Is Always Greener On The Other Side || single
8.) King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Deadstick || single
9.) Deradoorian – Digital Gravestone || Ready For Heaven
10.) Mamalarky – Feels So Wrong || Hex Key
11.) Dan Mangan – Diminishing Returns || single
12.) Foxwarren – Yvonne || single
13.) Nate and the Busy Boys –  Busy Boy Needs You || Busy Doing Nothing
14.) Bon Iver – AWARDS SEASON || SABLE; fABLE
15.) Joel Manchester – Suddenly Violently || single

The Lunchbox Interview: Michelle Tupy, Shelter Movers

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Moving can be difficult, especially for those experiencing domestic abuse. There are people who can help.

My guest today is Michelle Tupy, the Chapter Director of Shelter Movers New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. They are extending their operations into the Fredericton area, and Michelle joins me to talk about the work that the organization does, the need for the assistance, and how they go about helping someone.

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Away From The Mire Episode 78 – Live! Tonight! Sold Out!

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Welcome back to another episode of away from the mire. This week we did an hour of live cuts that I hope you’ll enjoy, Everything from The Ramones to Phish!

The Ramones – Any Way You Want It (live)
Josh Bravener and The Hypochondriacs – Just Like Before (live)
Rick White and The Sadies – Here In My Body (live)
The Who – Getting In Tune (live)
Talking Heads – This Must Be The Place (live)
Jimmy Swift Band – Drive By (live)
MJ Lenderman – Tastes Just Like It Costs (live)
Phish – The Squirming Coil (live)
Pearl Jam – Baba O’Riley (live)
Pearl Jam – Yellow Ledbetter (live)

 

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Harmony Corruption Reviews: Amorphis-Elegy

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Amorphis - Elegy

A Bridge Into the Future, A Mirror to the Past – 95%*

Amorphis’ third album released in 1996. As these fabulous Finns continued to let their sound blossom, they broadened their horizons. Elegy is an album I view as semi-similar to Tiamat’s 1994 adventurous “Wildhoney.” Part of me connecting these two albums is that I got both of these albums on CD around the same time. Both represented significant leaps forward in each band’s sound, while marking clear cutoffs in each band’s discography.

“Elegy” sees the clean vocals experimented with on “Tales From the Thousand Lakes” become the predominant vocal approach. The growls aren’t completely gone here (and they stuck around on the next album for a single song), and the interplay between the growls and cleans leads to some neat new songwriting avenues. As well, the guitars fill the gritty, more heavily distorted sound of this album, while the keyboards add a bit of a clean sound that leads to some fun interplay between the two.

For people coming from the previous album, Elegy is definitely a change in sound, but it is still recognizably the Amorphis from “Tales.” Other than the clean vocals, the move away from death metal song structures is more apparent. Heaviness isn’t the point of these songs (although there are still some very heavy moments). The expansion of clean vocals here doesn’t feel like a cashgrab or attempt to sell more records, but more as a natural progression. The followup album “Tuonela” seemed to be too comfortable in one setting for the majority of the album. In some ways, I think that the confusion and blurred lines of “Elegy” led to its brilliance. I don’t know if that was intentional or a Bob Ross-level happy accident, but I wish this album had gotten a proper sequel. I don’t hate mid or modern era Amorphis, I feel indifferent about it.

I’m always a full album listener. Some albums are significantly elevated when listening to them from start to finish, and you can tell the band put in a lot of effort to make an album flow from front to back. Other albums feel like a loose bag of songs (for better or worse). There can be great albums in either of these categories, but the first option is far and away my preference. “Elegy” accomplishes this wonderfully, just like its predecessor.

This album is apparently based on a book of the “Kanteletar,” which is a collection of old Finnish poems and stories. Lyrics in music are rarely the focus of my listening, and I generally see the voice as more of an instrument than a message-carrying device. This album still manages to feel like it tells a story through its music, and in the snippets of lyrics that I do catch, the lyrics seem to be part of the connective tissue holding this album together. I love the cohesion on display here. The ending of the album being “My Kantele” in an acoustic rendition is a very nice capstone on this already great album. In a way, it acts as this album’s “Planet Caravan” or “Solitude,” where it gives the listener a chance to breathe and reflect on the album after the last 50 or so minutes of music passed by. This album has great pacing, and naturally ebbs and flows. “The Orphan” has an incredible, Rainbow-esque introduction that I can’t praise enough, and this album stretches and recedes like waves against a beach.

It’s difficult to point out individual highlights on “Elegy,” as again, this is an album that flows in full. Listening to a single song is like reading a single chapter of a novel. It may be great writing, but context makes the world go ’round. With that, there are some noteworthy songs that are particular standouts. “My Kantele,” “On Rich and Poor,” and the title track may be some of my favourite Amorphis songs. “Cares” gets surprisingly electronic halfway through, which is a fun curveball.

“Elegy” has this mildly psychedelic feel to it that is hard to define. Like an aura at the periphery of your vision, it doesn’t stand out as immediately psychedelic, but the more you focus on it, the more the aura shimmers and swirls. I think this can be attributed to the lush production found on “Elegy,” which is sonically impactful, but also willing to let all the instruments breathe and wash over the listener in a cascade (listen to the first minute of “My Kantele” and you’ll understand). I struggle to define what I’m getting at here, but the production job done here is a highlight, and I wish more metal albums sounded like it (looking at you “Surgical Steel,” “Kingdom of Conspiracy,” and “Labyrinth.”)

I often say this is the death metal album for people who aren’t into death metal. A die-hard King Crimson or Rush fan would be able to find something to enjoy here, as would fans of Scandinavian folk, even if they need to squint a little. I’ve written a lot on albums that were key for me to get into death metal, and will likely continue to do so, but that’s the perspective of someone already into thrash metal and other types of metal at the time. For the person coming from a different musical background than I did (prog rock for example), this album is gorgeous, relatively non-abrasive, but still has all the key elements of a great death metal album, just in a more palatable form. Also, prog-rock fans seem to get funnelled towards Opeth, and as much as I like some Opeth, there seems to be a chilling effect on people’s taste in metal if Opeth is their starting point. Amorphis’ “Elegy” is a brilliantly poetic album, and the name reflects how I view it. It is a reflection of the band’s past, their present, and has glimpses of the band’s future stretching out before them. While I didn’t follow their future footsteps as closely as I did up to and including Elegy, I’m happy that we got this album in the process. Give it a listen on cold, Black Winter Day, and you’ll get why I gave it such a high rating.

 

**Note: Originally posted on the Metal Archives by CelestialEmissary

Harmony Corruption Episode 94-May 13th, 2025

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Hi Folks! Welcome back to Harmony Corruption on CHSR. This week’s episode features some tunes from some great albums, including Amorphis’ Elegy. I’ll be posting a review of that album up on the CHSR website later this week! Other than that, there’s a good mix of grindcore, death metal, thrash, and lots more.

Here’s the playlist for the week:

Amorphis-The Orphan

Amorphis-Cares

Gorement-Sea of Silence

Triptykon-Altar of Deceit

Tribulation-Melancholia

Tribulation-Daughter of the Djinn

Yngwie J. Malmsteen’s Rising Force-I Am A Viking

Yngwie J. Malmsteen’s Rising Force-Disciples of Hell

Converge-Heaven In Her Arms

Mass Grave-Disrupting the Balance

Queensryche-The Mission

Queensryche-Eyes of A Stranger

Mitochondrion-Flail, Faexregem!

Mitochondrion-Argentum Mortifixion

Mitochondrion-Intraluxiform

Mitochondrion-[]

Cryptopsy-Mutant Christ

Cryptopsy-Swine Of the Cross

Erosion-Deep In Hell

Power Trip-Cruxifixation

Vallenfyre-Amongst the Filth

Immolation-Put My Hand In the Fire

Thanks for listening!

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Away From The Mire Episode 77 – Dancing In The Club

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After a few weeks off, I was back live and in studio this week with some updates on my vacation and trip to Portland to see MJ Lenderman and Halifax to see Bush!

 

On this week’s episode we heard from…..

BA Johnston – Donair Sauce
Built To Spill – Gonna Lose
Absolute Losers – Sky So Violent
This Is Lorelei – Dancing In The Club (MJ lenderman version)
Voodoo Sometimes – Corporate Muse
Jimi Hendrix – Third Stone From The Sun
The Rolling Stones – Sweet Black Angel
Penny & the Pits – Pool Party
Windom Earle – Guitorgan
Wet Leg – Catch These Fists
Neutral Milk Hotel – In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
The Vestibules – Exclusive Interview With Mr. Dressup
The Ramones – We Want the Airwaves
Lou Reed – Dirty Blvd
Kim Deal – Coast

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RIP Frédéric Bonenfant

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It is with incredible sadness that we have learned of the sudden passing of one of our own. Fred Bonenfant was enthusiastic, funny and a gentle giant. A member of CHSR for many years, the quietest and ever dependable member of our wrestling and MMA show, Against The Mat and its predecessor Falls Count Anywhere, Fred was always positive, kind and helped the station in many ways.

He is missed tremendously.

You can find his full obituary and details of his memorial here.

People Need Music: May 8, 2025

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John Allaire brings his East Coast Caravan tour to New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia this month with multiple dates across all three provinces. Check out www.johnallaire.com for all the details.

Playlist

The Barr Brothers – Defibrillation ::

Valerie June – Joy, Joy! ::

John Allaire – Sugar ::

John Allaire – Swing the Hammer Down ::

John Allaire and The Fi-Delities ::

Sneezy Waters – I Heard the Bluebirds Sing ::

Kellie Loder – The Month of May ::

Kylie Fox – Hit ::

Absolute Losers – By Fright

 

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Harmony Corruption Episode 93-May 6th, 2025

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Hi Folks! This week’s episode brings the heaviness back and cranks it up to 11! This week has some black metal, death metal, and a bit of classic material just to mix things up. Here’s the playlist for the week:

Loudness-Revelation

Cirith Ungol-Paradise Lost

Paradise Lost-Eternal

Paradise Lost-Rapture

Entombed-Chaos Breed

Autokrator-Inquisitio-Denunciatio-Exceptio

Obsequiae-The Palms of Sorrowed Kings

Darkthrone-Inn I De Dype Skogens Favn

Dissection-Night’s Blood

Danzig-Long Way Back From Hell

Celtic Frost-Procreation of the Wicked

Antediluvian-All Along the Sigils Deep

Antediluvian-Guardians of the Liminal

Antediluvian-Sadomaniacal Katabasis

Antediluvian-Liar’s Path

Chainsword-Dead Hand Call

Katatonia-Cold Ways

Holy Grinder-Tomb of Disgust

Holy Grinder-Get Killed

Holy Grinder-World of Rats

Holy Grinder-Yellow Lung

Ulcerate-Undying As An Apparition

Motorhead-I Got Mine

Celestial Emissary-Noise Track

Venom-Witching Hour

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UNB’s Renaissance College changes its name to School of Leadership Studies after 25 years

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On April 9, 2025 the University of New Brunswick announced that the UNB Renaissance College was changing its name to the School of Leadership Studies. Dean of Leadership Studies Carol Nemeroff explained that the founders of the Renaissance College wanted to follow the lead of universities with satellite colleges like Oxford. The founders also hoped that “Renaissance” would bring to mind the interdisciplinary focus of Italian Renaissance thinkers. However, the name generated confusion for a quarter of a century, with many assuming that leadership studies was a diploma or community college program rather than bachelor’s degree program from an accredited university. The term “Renaissance” also often confused prospective students who assumed courses focused on fifteenth century Italian art. Carol and the other administrators involved in the name change hope that the School of Leadership Studies will more accurately reflect the programs offered through UNB’s Leadership Studies programs.

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NBCCD Fashion Show sees additional alumni and special guests from “That Kind of Worked”

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CORRECTION: This article originally misspelt Tracy Austin’s name. We have corrected it.

On April 17, 2025, the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design (NBCCD) hosted its annual fashion show. Serving as an end of year celebration and final showcase for the students in NBCCD’s Fashion Design Studio, this year’s fashion show featured additional alumni and a guest appearance from the hosts of an upcoming Bell Fibe TV show called “That Kind of Worked.” Tracy Austin, the head of NBCCD’s Fashion Design Studio, explained that previous shows feature five alumni who showcase a full line of clothing. This year’s show featured nine alumni showcasing comparatively smaller lines. This change was to accommodate more alumni participation and encourage alumni who might not have time in the daily lives to produce a full line specifically for NBCCD. Another change this year was the addition of Samantha and Rebecca, twin sisters and hosts of an upcoming Bell Fibe TV show called “That Kind of Worked.” The show follows the sisters to various locations where they compete against each other, completing tasks they have no prior experience doing. At NBCCD the twins attempted to make a skirt in the Fashion Design Studio. According to Tracy, the hosts did not do well, and both walked the runway in inflatable shark costumes as a punishment.

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Advanced polls at UNB conflict with exams, low early voter turnout

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From April 13 to April 16, 2025, the University of New Brunswick Student Union and the UNB Student Union Building administrators hosted Elections Canada to provide early polls to students on campus. Unlike recent elections, this year’s early voting period fell in the middle of UNB’s exams. UNBSU President Drashtant Varma noted that the voter turnout at the advanced polls was much lower than the previous federal election in 2019 (which occurred in October, outside of the exam period).

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Fredericton Homeless Shelters encourage resident voting for federal election Monday

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With the Canadian Federal Election coming up on Monday, April 28th, all sectors of society are pushing for increased voter turnout.

Warren Maddox, the Executive Director of Fredericton Homeless Shelters Inc., explained the steps his shelters take to ensure that residents who might not have a traditional permanent address are still eligible to vote.

Warren and the other shelter staff believe it’s important to ensure that residents have all the support and options necessary to contribute to Canadian democracy.

Warren also explained how shelter resident’s priorities might differ from other voters, noting that many are focused on day-to-day living. A primary concern among shelter residents is stability.

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Who will cut what: Not-for-profit and advocacy groups in Fredericton agree on housing as major concern going into Monday’s election

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Several advocacy groups and not-for-profits that support low-income and homeless Frederictonians share common concerns going into the election. The most prominent concern shared by these groups was housing affordability and availability. Nichola Taylor, the Chair of ACORN NB, noted that leaving almost all housing in the city to private sector landlords causes higher rents and exploitative practices. Habitat for Humanity New Brunswick CEO Perry Kendall explained that the increasing cost of construction also restricts new affordable housing units. Finally, Warren Maddox, the Executive Director of Fredericton Homeless Shelters Inc. predicted significant cuts to federal programming and emphasized that voters should pay attention to who will cut funding from which programs.

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First screenwriting workshop for kids at Fredericton Public Library a resounding success

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From March 20 to April 24, the Fredericton Public Library hosted its first “Cine-Kids Screenwriting Club” for children aged 10 to 13 years old. This six week program was the newest offering from the extremely popular “Cine-Kids Program” which started in April of 2024. Michelle Lovegrove-Thomson, the Children’s Librarian at the Fredericton Public Library, explained that the initial Cine-Kids program in 2024 was supported by a GLAM (Galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) Incubator grant out of the University of Toronto. The Cine-Kids program continued through the summer and fall of 2024 offering a foley (sound design) workshop and a Super 8 film workshop. After covering several topics in 2024, this newest workshop focuses on screenwriting specifically. Michelle noted that she chose screenwriting because of her own expertise, and because it meant she did not have to hire an outside expert—keeping the workshop free for families to enjoy. The workshop series was so successful that Michelle is now figuring out how to create a package to share the program with other libraries in New Brunswick and the rest of Canada.

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Groundbreaking research at UNB finds low-cost GNSS receivers produce data equal to high-cost receivers

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In January of 2025, the University of New Brunswick’s Radio and Space Physics Lab (RSPL) published ground breaking research that determined that low-cost global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receivers collected data comparable in quality to high-cost receivers. Dr. Anton Kashcheyev explained that GNSS receivers send and receive frequencies to satellites through the earth’s atmosphere that are most often used for global positioning systems (GPS). Scientists also use GNSS receivers to monitor changes in the ionosphere, which is a part of the atmosphere from 80 kilometers to 1000 kilometers above the earth’s surface. Changes in the ionosphere affect the accuracy of GPSs, so understanding and predicting the ionosphere makes GPSs and other devices that rely on GNSS more effective. Scientific grade GNSS receivers are expensive and inaccessible to scientists without large research budgets. Anton and scientists from the RSPL created a network of consumer grade, low-cost receivers by installing them on the roofs of public schools around New Brunswick. The RSPL then observed changes in the Ionosphere during the 2024 eclipse and compared that data to data collected by scientific grade equipment, finding that both had similar levels of accuracy. Anton hopes that this research will allow increased access to atmospheric science for scientists in countries and institutions with small research budgets.

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Pierre Poilievre’s first election rally in Fredricton met by “moist and feisty” protest

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On Monday, March 31, 2025, roughly thirty people held up signs and yelled chants outside of the Capital Exhibition Centre in Fredericton. The protest was in response to Pierre Poilievre’s Canada First Rally, the first of its kind on the East Coast. After about forty-five minutes of protesting at the venue’s side entrance, the Fredericton Police Force closed the doors. Protesters and rally attendees moved to the front entrance, where a handful of people were admitted, until police closed the front doors as well. Confusion ensued over the reason for closing the doors, with rally attendees accusing protesters of blocking cars, something not witnessed by this reporter.

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Fredericton highschoolers and La Fédération des jeunes francophones du Nouveau-Brunswick deliver open letter demanding lower voting age in the province

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On Thursday, March 27, 2025, La Fédération des jeunes francophones du Nouveau-Brunswick (FJFNB), an organization that advocates for youth francophone rights and culture in New Brunswick, delivered an open letter to the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick. The letter demanded that New Brunswick MLAs begin discussing the possibility of lowering the voting age in the province from 18 to 16. In a show of solidarity, several students from Fredericton’s Ecole Sainte Anne helped deliver the letter. Ecole Sainte Anne Student Council President, Romane Doucet said that students at her school held a meeting to discuss a lowered voting age, during which it was clear that the majority of students supported the potential change. The supporters of the open letter reason that sixteen and seventeen year old New Brunswickers already participate in most areas of public life (driving, paying taxes, joining the military, etc.) but cannot participate directly in politics. After starting the conversation with this open letter, FJFNB President Emma Raphaelle said the next step is to go into Fredericton’s Anglophone schools to continue giving high schoolers a voice in provincial politics.

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Local historian publishes definitive book on Canadian First World War cap badges

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Earlier this month, Fredericton based historian and former president of the York-Sunbury Historical Society, Harold “Hal” Skaarup began distributing his newest book, Canadian Expeditionary Force and Military Cap Badges: York Sunbury Historical Society Fredericton Region Museum Collection.

This new release is over one-thousand pages and catalogues every cap (hat) badge worn by the Canadian military during the First World War, the majority of which were photographed from the Fredericton Region Museum’s collection.

Skaarup hopes that this book will serve as a resource for museums, archives, and enthusiasts to better understand and connect with the past. He also invited interested community members to visit the Fredericton Region Museum to take a look at its reference copy and potentially see the real badges in the Museum’s collection.

Hal Skaarup talked to CHSR News about the significance of cap badges and why he thought it important to create this book.

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