Find Your Best Career: Surviving in a Challenging Job Market

04 Apr 2025

The job market can be challenging, but a job search can also be a time of growth and prosperity. When you are doing a job search it is easy to get caught up in the struggles of not finding a...

Grocery Ninja: If You Don’t Know What You’ve Got, You Don’t Know What You Need

03 Apr 2025

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There are many ways to save money on the food we buy for ourselves and our families. Keeping an inventory of your food can help because, when you know what you have, you can avoid buying duplicates. It also allows...

COLUMN: Preserving dignity with a provincial dementia strategy

27 Mar 2025

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The New Brunswick government has heeded concerns about the significant impact of dementia, by announcing plans to invest $2 million in a provincial dementia strategy. “These funds will be used to enhance the quality of life for people living with...

OP-ED: It is great to have The Courier back

26 Mar 2025

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It is great to have The Courier back. The Saint Croix Courier was a central part of my life in my childhood years and early adulthood. Since then, it was something that I happily took for granted in the 40-plus...

COLUMN: Pennfield Ridge Air Station 1941-1945: Forgotten Heroes

26 Mar 2025

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The snow has been falling for several hours now on Pennfield Ridge blanketing the large expansive blueberry barrens that once bore witness to an active World War II Air Station. The snow, for the second time this year, is also...

Grocery Ninja: How to spot grocery deals and when to leave items on the shelf

25 Mar 2025

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Last week, I went grocery shopping with specific deals I wanted to stock up on. New Brunswick-grown potatoes were $2.50 per 10 pound bag, fresh strawberries from Mexico were also $2.50 per 1 poundcontainer, whole chickens were on sale for...

Find Your Best Career: Working to Achieve Wellness in Your Career

18 Mar 2025

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Achieving wellness in your career is essential. We all deserve to live happy lives and enjoy pursuing our careers, jobs, and home lives. Your career and ideal workplace should match your values. While in some circumstances it might not be...

COLUMN: Listen Again: Allison Moorer – The Duel (Sugar Hill 2004)

15 Mar 2025

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Steve Earle is standing in the shadows by the side of the club stage enraptured as he watches the young artist win over a crowd of rowdy young men here to see the headliner. Every once in a while, he...

Grocery Ninja: After trial and error, we have achieved sourdough success

14 Mar 2025

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I had asked you to wish Mildred and me luck as we ventured into the world of sourdough. Mildred, as you already know, is the name I gave my sourdough starter. I read everything I could about how to create...

COLUMN: Avoiding CRA scams during tax season

08 Mar 2025

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On a recent evening, I received a text from an unknown number. “Remember to deposit your money transfer from the Canada Revenue Agency,” it read. A link accompanied the message. In years past, scam messages were relatively easy to spot....

Grocery Ninja: Wish us luck, with this sourdough bread adventure, we’re going to knead it

02 Mar 2025

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Many of us are discovering a love of bread-making. This return to baking bread took off five years ago when we started spending more time at home. That’s also when ingredients such as yeast became scarce. That created a movement...

Listen Again- John Hiatt- Bring the Family- A & M 1987

01 Mar 2025

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A craftsman, a songwriter’s songwriter, an everyman for the ages. John Hiatt is all that and more. One of my greatest concert memories is Hiatt at the Club Flamingo in Halifax test driving these songs. He wound up playing pretty...

Find Your Best Career: Using LinkedIn Effectively for Career Growth

23 Feb 2025

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LinkedIn is an incredible platform to use in your job search. It combines all you need from networking and researching companies for your job search to job postings. It is also a great tool for small business owners who are...

Grocery Ninja | Save time and money by making your own convenience foods

23 Feb 2025

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How many times have you looked in the fridge or freezer hoping a ready-made meal would magically appear? Food delivery services and prepackaged meal kits promising quick, easy, delicious meals are popular but come at cost. Sure, they save time...

COLUMN | Pennfield Ridge Air Station 1941-1945: Twenty Days

22 Feb 2025

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The M/S Batory sailed into Halifax Harbour April 17, 1942 with AC1 Stirling Cranston Campbell (GB1366913), a 22-year-old native of Prestwick, Scotland, aboard. He wasted no time settling into his new temporary wartime home of Canada – within 20 days...

COLUMN | Time for some warmer weather

19 Feb 2025

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By Barbara Rayner ST. GEORGE – Okay Old Man Winter – that’s enough! We don’t mind the light fluffy snow when the kids can toboggan and we can snowshoe or ski but this freezing rain/ice pellets is a bit much....

For the Love of Maud | Chapter 2: A Valentine for Valentine’s Day

14 Feb 2025

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Most of the puppies were already spoken for, but Angela, the kennel owner, had one boy and one girl left. “You wanted a girl? She’s in the orange collar,” she said. “We don’t name them—just coloured collars. Their first and...

Grocery Ninja: Here’s a Recipe for Saving Money

11 Feb 2025

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My family eats a lot of yogurt. It’s great for gut health, but at $7 per 650-gram container, the cost adds up quickly. I refuse to pay full price for groceries, so until recently, I searched for half-off yogurt deals....

COLUMN | Protecting seniors against online romance scams

07 Feb 2025

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On his tombstone, American poet Raymond Carver asks: “And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.” These words,...

Listen Again | Joan Osborne: Relish (Polygram 1995)

02 Feb 2025

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Joan Osborne has become known in recent years as an interpreter of other classic songwriters. Her recordings of Dylan standards, Stax/Motown soul and cheesy 80s and 90’s fare have earned many accolades, but she started in the business as a...

Grocery Ninja: Not Following a Recipe Will Save You Money

01 Feb 2025

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When deciding what to make for dinner, many of us rely on recipes. While recipes are helpful, they can also be limiting—sometimes requiring ingredients we don’t have or overcomplicating the cooking process. But what if you could cook confidently without...

Grocery Ninja: How to eat for two weeks without going to the grocery store

25 Jan 2025

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We’ve almost made it through the first month of 2025. With economizing and getting control of grocery budgets in mind, I decided to cook with only what was available in my kitchen. I carefully inspected my fridge, freezer, and pantry....

For the Love of Maud: Chapter 1: The Beginning Starts Somewhere in the Middle

24 Jan 2025

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Maud turned six this winter, and I’ll turn 46 in the spring. By the old rule of seven dog years to one human year, that makes us peers for a fleeting moment. It’s strange to think that, come my birthday,...

Listen Again: Lindsey Buckingham: Go Insane (Warner Bros. 1984)

24 Jan 2025

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After conquering the commercial sales universe with Fleetwood Mac and the bazillion-selling album “Rumours”, Buckingham found that he wanted to extend his creativity and find a measure of artistic success. The oft-criticized follow-up record, the risk-taking “Tusk” and then the...

COLUMN | Pennfield Ridge Air Station (1941-1945): No. 34 Operational Training Unit

23 Jan 2025

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As mentioned in our previous Column, Course No.1 at No.34 Operational Training Unit (O.T.U.), a solid little British enclave staffed almost entirely by Royal Air Force (RAF) personnel, right down to the batmen, commenced on June 8, 1942 with 62...

Find Your Best Career: Networking for Better Career Advancement

21 Jan 2025

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Networking – it is a situation where you thrive, or which can make you nervous. Networking is an important aspect of advancing your career and may seem daunting to some, but it doesn’t have to be. Networking can be from...

COLUMN: Unified Program Opens Doors for Students at SSHS

16 Jan 2025

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Unified Sports is an international program aimed at students with special needs and exceptionalities. As a branch of the Special Olympics, it organizes tournaments for athletes of all skill levels and aims to deconstruct harmful stereotypes about those with intellectual...

Grocery Ninja: How to save thousands of dollars on food

15 Jan 2025

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Do you want to reduce how much money you’re spending on food drastically? I know I do and I bet you do too. Who wants to spend thousands of dollars every year on groceries? But do you know what’s truly...

Find Your Best Career: What you need in interviews is a strategy

10 Jan 2025

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For some people interviews are simple and they can ace interviews with ease. But, for most of us, interviews can be nerve-wracking, and you need a strategy to organize your answers based on the interview you are attending. When attending...

OPINION: Words Matter

08 Jan 2025

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By Nicole Fawcett Last month, I joined a club. It is an inclusive club, one that does not discriminate based on race, age, religion, wealth, health, or occupation. Membership spans every demographic, and despite its inclusivity, it is a club...

COLUMN: Pennfield Ridge Air Station (1941-1945)

08 Jan 2025

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On April 8, 1942 the M/S Batory, with approx. 55 officers and 700 airmen, sailed from Gourock, Scotland to establish No.34 Operational Training Unit (OTU) at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia (Canada), one of the four OTUs established in Canada during World...

Grocery Ninja: How Being Forgetful Led to Huge Savings at the Grocery Store

03 Jan 2025

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Rarely, I am not paying close attention at the grocery store. I watch for in-store specials, hunt for corresponding coupons, and scan the discount carts for half-off items too good to pass up. I always look at the checkout computer...

Listen Again: David Sylvain: Secrets of the Beehive (Virgin 1987)

02 Jan 2025

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In an alternate universe British band Japan would have had the pop star success of Duran Duran, and teenagers would have had Mick Karn and Richard Barbieri posters on their bedroom walls. Alas, it was not to be. Several hits...

Find Your Best Career: Set Your Goals for The New Year

30 Dec 2024

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The new year is on its way and it is time to prepare. Resolutions are good, but rarely are they kept. That is why it is important to set strategic goals to follow through with in the New Year so you...

Grocery Ninja: Growing your food pantry

27 Dec 2024

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By Laverne Stewart Generations before us knew how to eat well with little money. Anyone who lived through the Great Depression and World War II knew how to make a dollar stretch and prepare frugal yet deliciously satisfying meals. Everyone...

Listen Again: Levon Helm – Dirt Farmer (Vanguard Records 2007)

24 Dec 2024

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Levon Helm was that iconic vocalist, able to connect the listener with those sepia-toned stories by Robbie Robertson, in the classic lineup of The Band. As the only American, he oozed credibility and knowledge of the southern experience that Robertson...

Sunbury Shores ‘Deck the Walls:’ Collecting Instead of Gifting for Christmas

20 Dec 2024

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By David Bizzo, Community Contribution At the opening exhibition Deck the Walls – Reflection of Time, I spoke with several attendees who were adding to their collections of works by certain artists featured on the gallery walls. Local artists are...

Grocery Ninja: Winning the Battle Against High Food Prices

11 Dec 2024

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We all know how expensive groceries are. Your dollar doesn’t stretch as far as it once did, making it harder to feed yourself and your family well. According to Canadian economists, those price increases will climb by five percent in...

Find Your Best Career – Resumes That Work

11 Dec 2024

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With the job market changing post-COVID it is important to make your resume stand out among other candidates. Did you know that hiring managers and recruiters will spend on average 11 seconds looking at your resume? This is why it...

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