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BANGOR, Maine — Canadian shoppers arrived early Thursday to get in line at Walmart and were surprised that the doors didn’t open until midnight. Maine has a law that bars big box stores from opening on Thanksgiving. “We thought it opened at 10 p.m.,” as advertised nationally, said Wanda Myers, a Saint John, New Brunswick, resident who arrived at the Brewer Walmart Supercenter at 6 a.m. Thursday and stood first in one of the store’s two lines. A convoy of Canadian shoppers drove 3½ hours to get to the Bangor area for Black Friday deals. “I was absolutely shocked” that...

So hard to say 'I'm sorry' Published Saturday February 20th, 2010 It was good while it lasted, but it was over far too soon. That is one way to describe the apology Saint John-Lancaster Liberal MLA Abel LeBlanc offered in the legislature on Thursday. The week before in the house, he lost his temper and embarrassed himself and the rest of the province with three middle-finger gestures and a challenge to go outside and fight members of the opposition. Strangely, it was the opposition that was left out of his apology - the very group he attacked. He apologized to...

New Brunswick Liberal MLA Abel LeBlanc was suspended from the provincial legislature Friday a day after he was expelled for the day for losing his temper and using an obscene hand gesture at the Opposition. The incident happened after Speaker Roy Boudreau ordered LeBlanc to apologize for heckling Tory MLA Margaret-Ann Blaney and gesturing at her. LeBlanc refused. When the Opposition cried out in protest, LeBlanc said: "Well, I am going to tell you (Carleton Tory MLA) Dale (Graham) I will walk outside with any one of youse (sic) here. Don't ever laugh at me. Yes, I gave you that...

RCMP officer mourned Published Friday January 15th, 2010 N.B. ties | Gallagher's body found in Haiti OTTAWA - An RCMP officer has been found dead in the rubble of his Haitian home - the latest Canadian victim of Tuesday's massive earthquake in the Caribbean country. Sgt. Mark Gallagher's body was discovered in the capital city of Port-au-Prince, RCMP Commissioner William Elliott announced Thursday. He lived near Woodstock, N.B., with his wife Lisa. "Mark's remains were identified visually by a contingent colleague working in collaboration with the search team at his residence," Elliott said. "We are now doing everything possible to...

THE RULES OF RURAL N.B. ARE AS FOLLOWS Listen up City Slickers & out of province Tourists 1. Pull your droopy pants up. You look like an idiot. 2. Turn your cap right, your head isn't crooked. 3. Let's get this straight; it's called a 'dirt road.' I drive a pickup truck because I want to. No matter how slow you drive, you're going to get dust on your Lexus. Drive it or get out of the way. 4. They are cattle. They're live steaks. That's why they smell funny to you. But they smell like money to us. Get...

New Brunswick is rolling out its government-brand suds across the province on Thursday in a strategy to keep people from heading across the border in pursuit of discount beer. The new brand is designed to staunch the bleeding of beer sales in border communities, but it is infuriating local brewers and at least one Quebec business owner. The beers, Selection Lager and Light, are being brewed exclusively for the New Brunswick Liquor Corp., a Crown corporation, by Saint John-based Moosehead Breweries. Dana Clendenning, the liquor corporation's president and chief executive officer, told a legislative committee in January that NB Liquor...

HURRICANE KYLE DISCUSSION NUMBER 10 NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL112008 1100 PM EDT SAT SEP 27 2008 KYLE CONTINUES TO EXHIBIT A VERY ASYMMETRIC CLOUD PATTERN FOR A HURRICANE. THE CENTER OF THE CYCLONE IS LOCATED NEAR THE SOUTHWESTERN EDGE OF THE DEEP CONVECTION...DUE TO SOUTHWESTERLY SHEAR. THE LATEST DVORAK DATA T-NUMBERS FROM BOTH AGENCIES DECREASED A LITTLE...HOWEVER...THE CONVECTION HAS EXPANDED AND THE CLOUD TOPS HAVE COOLED DURING THE PAST COUPLE HOURS...AND KYLE REMAINS A 65-KT HURRICANE. ANOTHER RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT WILL BE SAMPLING THE STORM AROUND 0600 UTC. SATELLITE DERIVED WINDS INDICATE VERY STRONG...BUT DIVERGENT FLOW OVER...

Dealing with border-jumping duffers Enhanced security putting the future of unique Aroostook Valley Country Club at risk By Mark Rickard and Madeleine LeClerc Published Friday April 11th, 2008 Appeared on page A2 Will the only golf course that sits on both sides of the Canada-United States border fall victim to enhanced border security? The future of the Aroostook Valley Country Club – which has served both Americans and Canadians for 81 years – is in doubt if United States Customs border patrol officers enforce entry regulations at the club. For more than eight decades, Aroostook Valley has been a unique...

Reservist picks Afghanistan after NB Power denies leave Article Tools Print DANIEL MARK WHEATON TELEGRAPH-JOURNAL Published Thursday January 18th, 2007 Appeared on page A1 A military reservist who nominated NB Power for an award for supporting the Canadian Forces has resigned after the Crown corporation refused him a leave of absence to deploy to Afghanistan. Maj. Sean Courty took the career hit in order to lead a team of soldiers from across Atlantic Canada who are leaving within three weeks for Kandahar on a six-month mission. "I had to make a difficult decision," Courty said. He left the job the...

FREDERICTON, New Brunswick, Sept. 27, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A pro-life woman was arrested Tuesday for holding an image of an aborted child outside an abortion facility in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Suzie Ryan, mother of seven, was silently holding the image outside the Morgentaler centre as abortions were being performed inside. Mrs. Ryan was charged with violating s.163 of the Criminal Code. S.163 is about the display of obscene material. She was released after being held in a jail cell for several hours. She must face the charges in court in November. Prior to her arrest Mrs. Ryan was not warned...

The way Joe Fabics sees it, he has the right to choose who lives under his roof with him. His choice: God-fearing Christians. But state officials are investigating whether Fabics is violating housing discrimination laws by asking tenants in his New Brunswick house to sign leases with phrases such as, "This is a Christian household" and "If you hate God, do not move in." "I try to tell people to believe in God and the Ten Commandments, not the desecration of today's teachings," he said. "I'm just telling them that this is a Christian household and that if they don't...

All Coat-Hangers Aimed at New Brunswick By Gudrun Schultz FREDERICKTON, New Brunswick, June 16, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The province of New Brunswick is being targeted by a concerted effort from abortion activists throughout North America for its laws limiting access to government-funded abortions. “This has been an ongoing campaign, but the volume has stepped up recently,” N.B. Right to Life director Peter Ryan told LifeSiteNews.com. “The voices are very loud and very present in the media: ‘New Brunswick has oppressive and outdated policies on abortion’.” Abortion activists have called on supporters to mail coat hangers to all N.B. MLA’s, he...

Religious material ban lifted in N.B. schools Updated Sat. Apr. 22 2006 7:05 PM ET CTV.ca News Staff Schoolchildren in New Brunswick can once again receive religious material in class, but texts like the Bible can't be distributed freely as they had been for 60 years. The Gideons, a Christian group that hands out Bibles to hotel rooms and hospitals, had been distributing copies of the New Testament to Grade 5 students for 60 years before a school board policy changed stopped the practice in 2003. In lifting the province-wide ban Thursday, Education Minister Claude Williams said the Gideons will...

Former Governor and current State Senate President Dick Codey sponsors the legislation. He says, "We would be the first in the country to build a building dedicated solely to stem cell research." He adds, "We would be using existing tobacco bond monies so, we're not spending new money." $150 million dollars would be needed leading many critics to ask, "What else could that money be used for?" Codey says, "This is about saving lives in the future." He asks, "If the cure for diabetes or something else came out of this New Jersey facility, wouldn't that be a great legacy…it...

LITIGATION & DEFENSE OF ANIMALSNJSBA Animal Law Committee   Moderator: SHERRY L. RAMSEY, ESQ. Chair, NJSBA Animal Law Committee Law Offices of Sherry Ramsey (Freehold)   Speakers: GRAYSON BARBER, ESQ. Immediate past chair of the NJSBAIndividual Rights Section Board Member of the National and NJ ACLU Lecturer, Princeton University Law Offices of Grayson Barber (Princeton)   LEN EGERT, ESQ. Attorney for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, The Fund for Animals, and Farm Sanctuary Egert & Trakinski (New York)   LEE HALL, ESQ. Adjunct Faculty, Rutgers Law School - Newark Legal Director of Friends of Animals Court TV commentator...

Former Gov Codey was pretty busy signing many items into NJ law before Corzine stepped up this week. One of the Amendments Codey signed into law is the Model School Nutrition Program. http://www.state.nj.us/agriculture/PolicyQA.pdf I became curious because it seems to be an initiative of the USDA. I always thought it was the FDA that dealt with foods and labeling. Anyway, the School Nutrition Policy is an effort of another initiative called Healthy People 2010. The Model School Nutrition Program is the first implementations of the Healthy People 2010 Project. The USDA, State and Local levels are presenting this as a...

Given the incessant anti-Americanism from a majority opf Canadian people who are geographically unequally distributed, I'm thinking of proposals of dividing Canada into several regions so as to let the right-minded people able to control their own destiny, and more importantly for the US, to make it impossible for sworn enemies of the US to be able to control the giant landmass and hold Uncle Sam hostage ever again. I'm thinking of dividing Canada into several regions: 1) Coastal BC: they are American-style leftists. Either allow an independent nation or produce an ultimatum - move to Souther Ontario. 2) Interior...

RCMP and Natural Resources officers spent several hours tracking a young female moose seen wandering the streets of Moncton on Monday. The two-year-old animal was first spotted near a local high school and was seen in the parking lot of the Moncton Hospital as well. Police watched the animal to ensure it didn't venture closer to the city's downtown area. The moose crossed several roads but didn't cause any traffic problems. RCMP officers and provincial biologists were able to coax the moose back into the woods without having to use force. Provincial wildlife biologist Dwayne Sabine said moose sightings in...

<p>WASHINGTON -- Federal authorities arrested 582 alleged gang members, including 22 in South Jersey, over a two-week period, targeting an estimated 80 violent groups they say have spawned street crimes across the country, officials said yesterday.</p> <p>Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff called the gangs "a threat to our homeland security and ... a very urgent law enforcement priority."</p>

The pastor of a Roman Catholic church has been removed after a church inquiry into allegations he sexually abused a minor 18 years ago. In a letter read over the weekend to parishioners of St. Joseph's Church, Metuchen Bishop Paul Bootkoski said the Rev. John Casey has been removed from his post and all active church ministry. He is accused of molesting a minor when he served as a parochial vicar at St. Peter The Apostle Church in New Brunswick. The bishop noted that Casey denies the allegation. Bootkoski said the diocese conducted its own investigation after law enforcement authorities...