Maud sniffs longer in the winter. Not casually or politely. She lowers her nose to the snow with the intensity of a detective who has just stumbled onto the one detail that explains everything. Her body tightens. Her focus narrows. The rest of the world disappears as she inhales with purpose, tugging me toward snowbanks […]
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Anger has become the background noise of modern life. It hums constantly, sharpens easily, and corrodes quickly. Outrage travels faster than context. Certainty is rewarded more than curiosity. If the 1920s were remembered as the Roaring Twenties, the 2020s may well be recalled as the Raging Twenties—an era shaped by algorithms, saturated with distortion, and […]
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Since she was a puppy, Maud has accompanied us to work at the TV station. What began as a quiet office companion quickly turned into an accidental on-air presence, her head popping up behind the news desk like a rogue sock puppet during a live broadcast. And from there, she became a fixture of CHCO-TV […]
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In a town full of deer, it’s no wonder that Maud barely turns her head when passing one of the majestic creatures as they graze on home gardens lacking fences and gobble shrubs like they’re feasting on corn on the cob. And, to be fair, the deer in St. Andrews have acquired a quiet confidence […]
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Maud’s favourite beach has always been the one by the Blockhouse in St. Andrews. Since she was a puppy, she’s known its rhythm, its shifting moods, its daily transformations. At low tide, the beach stretches almost to Navy Island, as though the land itself is reaching out to touch its neighbour. It can take ten […]
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Hosts Vicki Hogarth and Nathalie Sturgeon take a closer look at the top stories of the week from CHCO-TV and The Courier.
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“The Return of Grace”, storying the life of Grace Helen Mowat of Saint Andrews by-the-Sea, plays at the Dunn Theatre at the Huntsman Marine Science Centre on Saturday, April 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM. Playwright and director Ron Kelly-Spurles sits down with host Vicki Hogarth to talk about why he was inspired to write a […]
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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 only name comes from their family.” Patrick and I had talked about getting a dog […]
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Sara Brinkhurst and Bessie Bartlett sit down with host Vicki Hogarth to talk about the Saint Andrews Tapestry Project, which aims to tell St. Croix’s history through embroidery. Original broadcast date: February 7, 2025 Southwest Magazine is an original CHCO Television production taped on location at the CHCO-TV studio in Saint Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada.
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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, Maud and I will share the same age—two beings on entirely different timelines, meeting briefly […]
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