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News updates 2021-12-03

Headlines:

  • New Brunswick reported 93 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday.
  • A Miramichi Timberwolves player tests positive for COVID-19.
  • New Brunswick nurses hit ballot boxes today to decide on strike action.
  • A city advocacy group asks the province to clarify its municipal reforms.
  • Police arrested a 19-year old Quebecois man in Perth Andover last weekend.
  • Drivers pay a little more at the pump this week after yesterday’s drop.
  • People attending St. Thomas University get the chance to relax next week.
  • An Ojibway and Dakota community reaches a deal with Ottawa after a land dispute.
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Homemade Jams <<2021-11-26>>

Track List:
1.) Pillow Fite – Alkali
2.) Short For Arthur – Hanging Paintings
3.) Senior Citizen – The Foreign
4.) No, It’s Fine – Movies About Dinosaurs
5.) Century Egg – Moving On
6.) Sleepy Kicks – Ego Death
7.) Christine Campbell – Exit Out
8.) Erin Costelo – All In Your Head
9.) Wicked Vices – Athlone St.
10.) Free To Grow – Miracle Man
11.) Dad Patrol – Sinful Ways
12.) Air Traffic Control – The Climber
13.) Earthbound Trio – Plant A Seed
14.) Raphael Butler – Valerie
15.) Mike Bern – Christmas On The Rez

The Lunchbox Interview 2021-11-30: TUNB’s Metamorphoses

Today, I had a chance to sit down (virtually) with the grand poobah of theatre Len Falkenstein along with Zerach Kearney and Michelle Osier, two of the actors in the upcoming Theatre UNB production of Metamorphoses. We discuss this modern adaptation of the collection of classic mythical tales, doing theatre in the round, and how they have built a pool!

Metamorphoses opens on Thursday, December 2 at 7:30pm, on stage at Memorial Hall at UNB, and runs Friday and Saturday nights.

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News Updates 2021-11-30

Headlines:

  • New Brunswick reported 46 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday.
  • Police looking into a possible weapons complaint on the north side.
  • A group of New Brunswick Anglophone schools will start new French programs.
  • Belledune’s coal-fired power station won’t operate past 2030.
  • The province aims to create new workplace-wellness strategies for healthcare.
  • Nominations are open for St. Thomas University’s Fall 2021 International Student Leadership Award.
  • Parts of the province were issued special weather statements after a winter storm.
  • And an Indigenous Chief from Alberta wants the Catholic Church to apologize for its role in residential schools.
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News Updates 2021-11-29

Headlines:

  • New Brunswick reporting 45 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday.
  • The province commits to divesting $36 million to the Climate Change Fund.
  • A 56-year-old Fredericton woman is dead after a two-vehicle crash near Bathurst.
  • A five-year pilot project next fall aims to prevent substance abuse in youth.
  • The City of Fredericton taking ownership of the Lemont Building.
  • New Brunswick’s 211 now connecting family, intimate partner and sexual violence victims with appropriate resources.
  • Black Friday arrived with less fanfare than usual last week.
  • And Canada puts a stop to travellers coming from South Africa until January.
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RFYL Episode – RandomizerEP189

Run For Your Life! – the psychobilly rock show of zombie sharks
It feels like a staple at this point, but HELLO and welcome to a brand new episode of Run For Your Life. On today’s episode, we feature a fun method of me setting up my playlist through a few different randomizers. It’s fun. It’s exciting. It’s still as awesome as ever – is it little more than just a very robust playlist with shuffle on? Yes, just barely!

Anyway, we have some new stuff, some “old classics” (?), and otherwise just some amazing things to spin for you to give you some shelter from the onslaught of the radio waves. Don’t worry, we don’t even parody carols here.

Enjoy the tunes. Or don’t.

Playlist:
Fossils – Deaf Radio
Black & Red – Reignwolf
Butcher – The Standstills
Wild Fires – The JB Conspiracy
Punk Two – Like A Motorcycle
Seven Seas – Kilmore
Stranger – Black Mastiff
In The Storm – Thera
Circles – Powder for Pigeons
No Masters, No Gods – Infrared
Make Me Sick – Worst Part
Return To Me / Legacy – Unleash The Archers
Atom Shell – That Handsome Devil

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News Updates 2021-11-25

Headlines:

  • New Brunswick reported 87 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday.
  • A health care program that lets patients have their say.
  • New Brunswick’s official opposition wants to go over the province’s finances early.
  • Officials may know the cause of a Moncton Legionnaires Disease outbreak.
  • One person is dead after an accident at a Saint John recycling plant.
  • Drivers pay a little less at the pump.
  • Two researchers from UNB receive cash from Ottawa.
  • And the designs for Team Canada’s curling team will feature Anishinaabe art.
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Homemade Jams <<2021-11-22>>

Track List:
1.) Chillteens – Suite Life
2.) Jaclyn Reinhart – Rearview
3.) Joel Strauss – Cross the Desert
4.) Quinn Bonnell – Middle
5.) Leo Lafleur – Bonsai Tree
6.) Dylan Menzie – A Heart That Doesn’t Want Mine
7.) The Backstays – No Hot Cargo
8.) Honey Gut – Buried Alive
9.) Kill Chicago – What Doesn’t Kill You
10.) The Motorleague – Dischordia
11.) Mike Trask – The Painter
12.) DenMother – BIRDS (Feast of the Gluttons)
13.) Stephen Hero ft. MXCHAEL SHABAZZ – Trash
14.) Lennie Gallant ft. Patricia Richard – All I Want For Christmas

News Update 2021-11-22

Headlines:

  • New Brunswick recorded 90 cases of COVID-19 and 43 recoveries on Sunday.
  • Ten out of 11 CUPE locals ratified wage agreements from the province.
  • A woman who served cannabis cupcakes to soldiers is behind bars for 30 days.
  • Inmates and staff at Dorchester Penitentiary test positive for COVID-19.
  • Most of the Maritimes started the week with a little rain today.
  • The Canadian Hockey League has the schedule for next year’s Memorial Cup.
  • Local curlers beat the Guinness world record for the longest curling game.
  • And Health Canada gives the thumbs up for the Pfizer vaccine for kids.
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Homemade Jams <<2021-11-19>>

Track List:
1.) Redwood Fields – Jacqueline
2.) Shadow – Used To Love (The Rain)
3.) Motherhood – Winter/The News/River
4.) Walrus – Cool To Who
5.) Shadow Folk – Contemplation
6.) Jon McKiel – Mourning Dove
7.) Papal Visit – Inaudible
8.) Alexander Gallant – Know It All
9.) Jane Blanchard – Still, Again
10.) Doctor Mother Father – You Are What You Are
11.) Not You – Mabel
12.) Gun Jr. – WOLF
13.) David Myles – Let It Snow

RFYL Episode – BariaurEP188

Run For Your Life! – the psychobilly rock show of zombie sharks
Do I always sound this sleepy? Yes. Do I ever introduce myself and not just the show? No.

Anyway, welcome to your bastion against Christmas music. For the full hour and then some for podcast-downloaders, you will have an increasingly-heavier playlist to enjoy that will both help you disassociate with your identity like a true 90’s kid and also find some sort of passion I guess.

So enjoy! Grab a podcast, it’s free!

Playlist:
Side B Track 1 – Sea Mouse
River Road – Grand Electric
Uninspired – Dead Sara [Official]
Work It Out / Pressure – Cory Hotline
Sevier – The Joy Formidable
Phosphene – Tsunami Bomb
Back Burner – Like A Motorcycle
Primitive Data – Puta Volcano
Intuition Underground – Shumaun
Recovery – Clæmus
Viper Queen – Osyron
Carry the Flame – Unleash The Archers

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News update 2021-11-19

Headlines:

  • Circuit breakers in the Moncton and Miramichi areas end tonight.
  • New Brunswick slashes the number of local governments entities.
  • New Brunswick’s police commission found no wrongdoing in the death of a 26-year-old Indigenous woman.
  • Soldiers assisting Iqaluit’s water crisis will stay until December.
  • There are no injuries after a fire broke out on the HMCS Fredericton.
  • A New Brunswick trail is one of the world’s top travel destinations.
  • New Brunswick seeks help with issues around cell phone service.
  • Health Canada looks to approve Moderna’s COVID vaccine for kids.
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News update 2021-11-18

Headlines:

  • New Brunswick reported 82 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday.
  • A provincial welfare agency released its annual data on child rights.
  • Police say AMBER Alerts allowed them to find a woman and two kids this week.
  • A north-shore hockey team inked a new deal to stay in the region.
  • Drivers will pay a little more at the pump this week.
  • The University of New Brunswick opened a new facility for prosthetic research.
  • A new poll shows Canadians are having a tough time with holiday shopping.
  • And British Columbia declared a state of emergency after historic flooding.
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News update 2021-11-17

Headlines:

  • Health officials reported 34 new cases of COVID-19 and 43 recoveries Tuesday.
  • The province reveals more details about its new five-year health plan.
  • A sentencing hearing for a New Brunswick soldier hears the impact of her actions.
  • The province and the group representing doctors inked a new deal last week.
  • VIA Rail ramping up passenger service in time for the Holidays.
  • The Maritime Junior Hockey League will hold a Week of Reconciliation.
  • Canadian Blood Services ending a ban on gay and bisexual men donating blood.
  • And British Columbia suffers from devastating floods near the coast.
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News Update 2021-11-16

Headlines:

  • New Brunswick reported 40 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday.
  • The Chief of St. Mary’s First Nation says they have not given the green light to any future changes at Officer’s Square.
  • The New Brunswick government unveiled new health care updates yesterday.
  • A 35-year old woman is dead after an incident in Woodstock over the weekend.
  • New Brunswick EMO will test the Alert Ready system Wednesday morning.
  • A Spanish energy company officially has the deed to a Saint John port.
  • A Prospect Street bar aims to deliver holiday goodies for Fredericton seniors.
  • And a University of Winnipeg researcher is creating a website to help find missing Indigenous tuberculosis patients.
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Homemade Jams <<2021-11-15>>

Track List:
1.) Hilary Ladd – Doin Just Fine
2.) Pillow Fite – Playing The Fool
3.) The Meds – Dial Tones
4.) Sheik – Alone In the Dark
5.) Sluice – Bunker’s Island
6.) Dillon Ryan & The Dream Romantic – River Of Past Reflection
7.) The Gregories – Show Your Teeth When You Smile
8.) Diner Drugs – Gump Truck
9.) Sherry Ryan – Any Other Way
10.) Mandy Silk – Feelin Fine
11.) Richie Young – Daytime Rambler
12.) Run The River – Moonlight Blues
13.) Maggie Savoie – Voyageur
14.) Mike Trask & Menoncle Jason – Mama’s Christmas Pies

News Update 2021-11-15

Headlines:

  • Students are back in classrooms after a two-week strike forced 20,000 workers off the job.
  • Public Health reported 65 new cases of COVID-19 and a single death Sunday.
  • A man faces several charges after a shooting on Mountain Road in Moncton.
  • The inquest into the death of Chantel Moore has been pushed to late February.
  • New Brunswick will establish a new task force to develop a better health plan.
  • The Fredericton Red Wings bested the Grand Falls Rapids 4-2 on Sunday.
  • Astronomers say New Brunswickers could see more of the Northern Lights in the next few years.
  • And Canada could authorize Pfizer’s COVID vaccine for kids 5-11 in one to two weeks.
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Homemade Jams <<2021-11-12>>

Track List:
1.) Ben Caplan – Night Like Tonight (reimagined)
2.) Melina Coolen – Fairytales Again
3.) Jaclyn Reinhart – Sleep With Ghosts
4.) Brookside Mall – Canis Major
5.) Will Pacey – Away
6.) Marian – Same Town
7.) Chloé Breault – Quand on y pense (NB Calling Vol. 1)
8.) The Belle Comedians – Long Drive Home
9.) Kim Wempe – Never Promised You Nothing
10.) Campbell & Johnston’s Black Market Band – Fool For You
11.) The Town Heroes – 1999
12.) Kill Chicago – Wishbook
13.) Gabrielle Papillon – Last Deep Breath
14.) The Burning Hell – Bird Queen of Garbage Island
15.) Janowskii – Treat Everybody The Same
16.) Smoke – Bleed (NB Calling Vol. 1)

RFYL Episode – TieflingEP187

Run For Your Life! – the psychobilly rock show of zombie sharks
Somehow it’s already Friday. You’ve done it! Now you have a playlist to get you through the final leg of the day. Or the first leg. Or some sort of leg .. the centipede-leg of the day.

Look, I don’t come up with the analogies here. Sometimes I don’t do anything but write minor variances of things that I’ve been doing for the last ten years. How many more times can I say “buy music to support bands, listen to good music and play music loud”?

I guess I just did that. Do that.

Playlist:
Great Divide – Grand Electric
Model Society – Deaf Radio
Lights Out! – Dead Sara [Official]
A Lonely Chord – Tsunami Bomb
Social Waste – Cellar Twins
Never Say Goodbye – Nightingale – Music & Videos
Killer – Ruby the Hatchet
Deathwish – Striker
Under The Sun – Shumaun
Through Stars – Unleash The Archers

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Homemade Jams <<2021-11-08>>

Track List:
1.) Alan Jeffries – Coffee ‘Til Midnight
2.) The Montgomery Street Band – Horse Race
3.) Zac Crouse – Oh My Soul
4.) Terra Spencer – Brick and Mortar (ft. Stewart Legere)
5.) Colin Fowlie – Overcompensating
6.) Pallmer – Quiet Clapping
7.) Century Egg – Moving On
8.) Subtle – Honey Bee
9.) My Black Ram – Uh Huh
10.) David Myles – New 80
11.) Little You, Little Me – Racket In My Brain
12.) Andre Pettipas and the Giants – Homesick
13.) Young Satan In Love – The Ballad of Jim Beam
14.) DenMother – FURIES (Dance of the Nudes)
15.) Elephant Skeletons – Scorpio