On today’s show:

• Today is Superman Day, so keep your eyes out for people in capes.. It’s also Peanut Butter Cookie Day and International Falafel Day, so we will eat well today!
• Saturday is Sewing Machine Day, and right now, it is the instrument of our times.. Or maybe you need to get outside? It’s also Worldwide Knit In Public Day, so salute all those people bringing the threads together.
• Sunday is World Blood Donor Day, so consider how you might be able to share some of your life, to save another’s. It’s also International Bath Day, Cupcake Day, and Bourbon Day, so sounds like it’s time for a spa (maybe at home).
• Service New Brunswick would like to remind you that you were only given a limited-time extension to renew your licence, registration, certificates and other permits. It’s time get your documents up to date, and fortunately you can do a lot of it online at snb.ca.
• Remember that the new displays of artworks in UNB’s working collection will be presented by the UNB Art Centre at 5pm on Friday. In Revelations, they hope to show works of many well-known and lesser-known New Brunswick artists, including works that are rarely seen. Visit their Facebook page for more details.
• This Saturday, the City will be doing a special curbside cleanup to collect the debris of the severe thunderstorm of last week. Have your materials bundled or bagged and at the curbside by 7am on Saturday. This is for smaller debris and yard waste only.
• Theatre New Brunswick has announced that it is doing Summer Theatre Camps. It has worked out safer ways to do it with respect to COVID-19, and will give kids (and parents!) a much-needed relief from being at home all the time.
• The Boyce Farmer’s Market will open on Saturday this week. While they have reduced capacity and vendors, it’s important for all of us to find ways to support them with patience and patronage. The market opens at 8am on Saturday and runs until 1pm.
• This Saturday at 1pm, there will be a Healing Walk in Memory & Justice for Chantel Moore, starting at City Hall downtown. Friends, family and allies are asked to join, but are also asked to respect the protocols established for the event.
  • “All are welcome, but we ask that you take careful consideration of the details described in the Healing Walk Protocol, and follow the protocols earnestly. We acknowledge Dr. Imeda Perley (Opolahsomuwehs) for the composition of this Healing Walk Protocol.Chantel Moore’s Healing Walk Protocols
    Brothers and Sisters, Elders and Youth, let us join our heavy hearts, our furious minds, our gentle spirits to follow the ancient tracks of our people to stand up for justice, to sing our songs of healing, to invoke all our spirit helpers to guide us towards our peaceful perseverance during this tragedy and pandemic.
    
    We will walk in both silence and chants to honour our emotions and heal both our historical and contemporary agony of injustice.
    
    We will carry our gifts of language to bless our purpose and refrain from using profanity that does not belong to our language.

    Our women will carry our gift of compassion in a bowl of water to be brought to a designated sacred place.

    We will wear our ceremonial skirts and shirts to honour our nations colours and pride

    Our voices will echo love not hate.

    Our Smudging will help us to comply with our Wampum Laws of peace and to minimize displaying acts of anger that may disrespect our cause

    Our Healing Walk should never be called a “protest”, this is not our traditional word, we instead use “Ikatomone”(eek-gut-moh-neh) which translates to “let’s guard” our way of life, our languages, our ceremonies, our rights to declare justice.

    Our Sacred Drums will soothe our shared anguish as we converge our thoughts to healing Chantel’s family and her memory.

    Our Sacred Pipes will invoke our power to connect to our ancestors who are walking with us within our DNA

    Our Red Shawls will be a symbol for all MMIWG and their families.

    Our Moccasins will allow us to walk with stamina a gift from our four legged relatives and mostly to leave our sacred tracks to honour those who went before us and to leave behind for those yet to be born!

    Please keep in mind to follow our safety precautions of social distancing, hand sanitizing and wearing masks to remain safe from Covid-19.

    ———

    Regardless of race or background, we ask that you follow the protocol. The  protocols keep us safe, and maintain our intention. We encourage you to remember Chantel in these ways:

    •  Wear gold and yellow. Chantel’s catchphrase was, “stay golden!”. We honour her by wearing gold and yellow
    • Wearing rainbows. Shortly after Chantel’s life was tragically lost at the hands of the police officer, a rainbow emerged in the sky.
    • Wear your Indigenous regalia
    • Bring your drums, shakers, art, and signs
    • Show compassion, care, and courtesy in your expressions”
• Today, we revisit two artists who use art to help understanding of marginalized or misunderstood groups. Natalia Sappier is an indigenous multi-disciplinary artist who joined me in 2019 to talk about her theatre-and-music project while in residency at the UNB Art Centre. Alex Rioux is involved in multiple aspects of theatre in the city, and joined me in 2018 to talk about the production of Fruit Machine.

News:

• Two staff members from the Campbellton Regional Hospital are New Brunswick’s latest cases of COVID-19. 
• The City of Fredericton has planned a photo trail for high school graduations after COVID-19 impacted prom, graduation ceremonies and safe grad events.
• Fredericton police arrested 28-year-old William Vrolyk on Tuesday after connections to several outstanding crimes.
• 34-year-old Peter Thomas Poirier now faces additional charges about a robbery and not stopping for police in Moncton and Dieppe.
• The New Brunswick Social Work Association is calling for mental health professionals to be involved in police wellness checks.
• The federal government is taking action to support and stabilize the economy by promising New Brunswick $45 million from the Gas Tax Fund. 
• And Canadian Blood Services hopes people across the country will consider donating blood or plasma despite COVID-19.

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On the show:

• It was Farm Workers Day, so we revisited an interview from 2013 with Lucia Stephen of ACORN about their program to grow more farmers. Don’t plant them too deep!
• We also heard from Shawn William Clarke, who was touring the Maritimes back in 2018.

News:

• The province announced four new cases of COVID-19 in Zone Five yesterday. The individual from Zone One is a temporary foreign worker who tested positive after isolating for ten days. 
• St. Thomas University announced yesterday it will deliver its courses online for the fall semester.
• Caraquet RCMP is investigating suspicious fires along a bike path in Saint Simon.
• John Richard from University of New Brunswick said recent decisions to cancel competitions have left people with many questions.
• The 2021 Canada Summer Games is over a year away, but the province hopes 15 new volunteers will serve as staff for Team NB.
• On Monday, Hampton MLA Gary Crossman called on the legislature to bring fibreoptic internet to isolated rural areas of his riding.
• And a new study from Restaurants Canada shows six out of ten are still losing money

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In this show:

• Today was Ball Point Pen Day. I tried to say something nice about it, because I realize it’s an amazing invention, but really… what can you say? Go write something!
• We are in the middle of Canada Blood Week. You can help save a life. Contact blood.ca to book your appointment.
• The last schedule Digital Tertulia is tonight! Listen to  Daniel Tubb talk about Gabriel Garcia Márquez. This will be live at 7pm.
• I read about the upcoming release of Depends on the Pay, the new album of New Brunswick folk songs assembled and performed by Mike Bravener, so I wanted to share my interview with Mike from last fall, when he embarked on this project.
• We also revisit another Real Life Survivor: Louis Stravato.
• And a bit of music in the mix: Smile by Eyeswide.

News updates:

• The province announced one new case of COVID-19 yesterday. The individual from zone one is someone in their 20s who did not self-isolate after travelling.
• Education Minister Dominic Cardy is looking for the province to pass Bill 11, which requires all public school students to be vaccinated.
• Courthouses around New Brunswick are slowly returning to near normal dockets every day.
• Codiac RCMP have arrested 34-year-old Peter Thomas Poirier after an armed robbery in Dieppe early Monday morning. 
• The ACAA announced its first-semester sports schedule is cancelled due to COVID-19.
• After last weekend’s severe thunderstorm, the City of Fredericton will clean up of small debris this Saturday.
• Science East has found its newest CEO in its chief operating officer, Guy Robbins. 
• And Rogers Communications said yesterday partnering with women’s shelter throughout the Maritimes is crucial during COVID-19.

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On the show:

• Tuesday was Donald Duck Day, but more importantly Call Your Doctor Day and Care For Your Grandparents Day. So, let’s all check our health and well-being, shall we?
• While the normal format for Flourish Festival won’t be happening this year, they are reimagining their platform and working around new restrictions. “We’ve re-opened submissions for FLOURISH Festival 2020. We are reimagining our platform and working around new restrictions. We are especially interested in hearing about community projects, public art proposals, installation proposals, workshops/educational programming, murals, and other projects that do not require physical gathering.” Apply to join the festival on their website, flourish-fest.com . Submissions are open until Friday, June 27th.
• Design Works Wednesdays will continue. This week, the new host (Jody McCleary) took over the new format and recorded a video on Picasso Pet Paintings.
• The Digital Tertulias continue this week with Daniel Tubb on Gabriel Garcia Márquez. This will be live on Wednesday night at 7pm. This is the last scheduled tertulia so far.
• To honour the memory and call for justice in the case of Chantal Moore, there will be a Healing Walk in numerous places across the province this weekend. In Fredericton, the event will start at 1pm starting at City Hall. Be sure to observe the necessary pandemic safety requirements as well as the protocols they have established to show your support properly and with respect.
• I revisited an interview I did with Tea Fazio about the Girls STEM Up! conference from the fall of 2019. It is vital that we generate more interest in STEM fields, and make sure that women face no barriers and get necessary support to enter those studies if they wish.
• We also revisited another Real Life Survivor‘s story: Lisa Richard.
• Featured song today is I’m Goin’ Fishin’ by Stephen Lewis & The Big Band of One.

News update:

• The province announced nine new cases of COVID-19 yesterday.
• The Atlantic University Sport Association announced yesterday it will suspend regular and post-season conference events until January.
• Three people have been charged by Blackville RCMP after seizing drugs at a traffic stop in Renous.
• RCMP in Hampton is looking for the public’s help into a break-in at the Family Meat Mart on Kierstead Avenue.
• The City of Fredericton announced the Wilmot Park splash pad, along with nine city-owned wading pools will stay closed this summer.
• The City of Fredericton will work with the Department of Tourism, Heritage and Culture on an archeological assessment at Officers’ Square.
• Immediate family of citizens or permanent residents can enter the country as of midnight last night.
• And the Department of National Defense has released a report on the Cyclone helicopter crash which killed six passengers on April 29.

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On the show:

• Monday was Best Friends Day and World Oceans Day. Did you call a friend and stare lovingly at a photo of an ocean? Or at least eat seafood?
• Monday also turned into My Black Ram day: I played Bondo’s pick of Another Lover, the interview I did with Peter and Jon from the band, and then a full version of Lost That Feeling. You can pick their album up online, or visit The Cap, or find them on Facebook and maybe still get home delivery.
• I also revisited the most recent Real Life Survivor story, in which Julie and I spoke to Karen Richardson.
• Good news! Fredericton’s Canada Day Committee is determined to have our summer celebration after all! They are planning a live stream of music all day, as well as a competition to decorate your home for the holiday.
• Design Works Wednesdays will continue. This week, the new host (Jody McCleary) took over the new format and recorded a video on Picasso Pet Paintings.
• The Digital Tertulias continue this week with Daniel Tubb on Gabriel Garcia Márquez. This will be live on Wednesday night at 7pm. This is the last scheduled tertulia so far.
• To honour the memory and call for justice in the case of Chantal Moore, there will be a Healing Walk in numerous places across the province this weekend. In Fredericton, the event will start at 1pm starting at City Hall. Be sure to observe the necessary pandemic safety requirements as well as the protocols they have established to show your support properly and with respect.

News update:

• The province announced one new case of COVID-19 over the weekend.
• The family of Chantel Moore is looking for answers to her sudden death last week.
• National RCMP commissioner Brenda Lucki says there is no room for racism in Canada’s RCMP.
• St. Thomas University has cut ties with the local company responsible for making its grad rings.
• Police in Bathurst has charged a 34-year-old man with attempted murder.
• Codiac RCMP is asking for help in locating a missing 15-year-old boy from Moncton.
• Fredericton emergency crews were busy over the weekend in the wake of a massive storm Friday evening. 
• The Dooly’s on Queen Street has been closed after reports of a customer who failed to self-isolate after travelling to Quebec.

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In this show:

• Today is Hug Your Cat Day and Corgi Day. It’s also Old Maid Day. I don’t think those are necessarily related, but some folks might be able to triple down today.. Lucky!
• Tomorrow is World Environment Day. Don’t just hug a tree: plant one! Or clean up around one. Or figure out how you can prevent us from polluting our only planet..
• It was on this date in 1726 that the 1725 Treaty of Peace and Friendship was ratified by the Mi’kmaq, Maliseet, Passamaquoddy and Penobscot Nations – re-affirming Wabanahki hunting, fishing and planting grounds.
• The Roots and Soul Artist Takeover this Thursday night is Old Man Grant.  They’ll be taking over the page all day from beautiful BC.
• This weekend’s Living Rooms Concert Series continues on June 7 at 5:30pm with Sarah Kierstead, Old Man Grant, Krista Shannon, and Joshua Bravener of The Hypochondriacs.
• Today, I celebrate music heartily, with a revisit with my 2016 interview with Jesse Brown and my 2015 interview of Merrideth the Stage Manager of the Voodoo House Stage at Harvest Jazz & Blues.
• This week’s Positive Songs For Pandemics from Lainie B is Valerie June. Also music featured from Kiwi Jr and Jesse Brown.

News:

• New Brunswick had its first COVID-19 related death early this morning in Campbellton.
• One man is dead after a house fire on Grand Manan.
• The federal government is securing 37 million syringes to stay prepared for when researchers find a coronavirus vaccine.
• The Fredericton Redwings will welcome four new players to its team.
• More charges are being laid in last week’s death of Minneapolis man George Floyd.
• The deadline for your 2019 income tax return is this Monday, June 8. 
• A local member of parliament is advocating towards better internet speeds for rural New Brunswickers.
• The Boyce Farmers Market is releasing more details about its gradual reopening.
• And today marks the sixth anniversary of the Moncton tragedy, where three RCMP members lost their lives during a 28-hour search.

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On the show:

• Its Repeat Day. Be sure to be on the watch for bad routines you need to break out of, or good habits you need to reinforce.
• I spoke with Carol Harquil in the summer of 2019 at the Fredericton Region Museum about her ongoing residency, where she practices traditional and modern Native Dressmaking.
• Mary Louise Macarthy and Jennifer Dow helped kick of my exploration of local history last fall with a discussion of Black History in NB.
• This summer will be missing one of the newest gathering spots: the Garrison Night Market has announced its decision to suspend operations for 2020. “… the night market’s popularity as a community gathering spot necessitates this temporary closure. … those people who have come to the market over the past 2 years and know how tremendously successful and crowded it has been will understand that the risk is simply too great. On a good night we’ve seen upwards of 6-8,000 people.”
• On a happier note, the Boyce Farmers Market is set to re-open this weekend, albeit with limited capacity and respectful, safety-related requirements. “The only entrance will be 665 George Street, where a washroom will be dedicated to handwashing and staff will direct shoppers to follow one-way directional signage. All vendors will wear community facemasks, and customers are strongly encouraged to do so as well. Additional staff will be on hand to ensure washrooms, doors and other high-touch surfaces are sanitized regularly. Eighty shoppers will be allowed in the market buildings at one time. Social distancing measures require vendors be spaced throughout the market, and businesses therefore may not be in their usual stall. “
  
• A number of outdoor recreation areas are set to re-open under the second phase of recovery. Getting outside and getting exercise will do many of us a lot of good!

News update:

• New Brunswick Public Health reported one new case of COVID-19 yesterday.
• Over 500 people took to the streets of downtown Fredericton yesterday afternoon to show support for a Black Lives Matter rally.
• The Codiac RCMP says a 47-year-old man from Moncton is facing assault and hate charges after an incident Monday.
• A judge from Miramichi has charged 21-year-old Ethen Harnish with first-degree murder after the death of Brandon Martin.
• The City of Fredericton says its final design for the new all-wheel sports plaza is receiving rave reviews.
• A 47-year-old man was arrested near Bathurst after operating a vehicle under the influence.
• The remains of a 64-year-old man were found in Chaleur Bay near Petit-Rocher-Nord on Saturday.
• The doctor who brought COVID-19 to Campbellton went public yesterday in his first interview since the region’s outbreak.

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