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Author: Suzanne Lapointe
Publication Date: November 27, 2025 - 17:51
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New Brunswick parent concerned new religious accommodation policy will alienate students
November 27, 2025
The approval would be needed for access to a prayer room, fasting or missing school for religious reasons within the Francophone South School District.
The first person to get rich from the sweet products of maple trees was an American. George Clinton Cary was born in 1864 on a farm in Fort Fairfield, in eastern Maine, on the border of New Brunswick. As a boy of ten, Cary was already a budding farmer and had his own pair of steers. By age twenty-two, Cary was looking beyond the farming industry and became a travelling grocery salesman, moving goods by horse and buggy throughout Maine, Vermont, and New Hampshire.
The legend of Cary’s start in the maple business began in the spring of 1886. Cary’s wagon, pulled by a team of horses, got...
December 20, 2025 - 06:30 | Peter Kuitenbrouwer | Walrus
The RCMP says it is actively investigating Ryan Wedding’s alleged criminal activities, in the hopes of laying criminal charges in Canada against members of the organization. In the wake of charges in the U.S. against Canadians allegedly tied to the Wedding organization, two senior Mounties told The Globe and Mail that they are continuing to pursue their own probe.
December 20, 2025 - 06:30 | Colin Freeze | The Globe and Mail
Jack Frieberg’s parents were Holocaust survivors. Louis and Gerda Frieberg came to Toronto in the 1950s to start a new life in the New World. He worked as a carpenter, she as a seamstress, making 70 cents a dress in a Spadina Avenue sweatshop. As Toronto boomed in the postwar years, they saw an opportunity and started a construction company.
December 20, 2025 - 06:15 | Marcus Gee | The Globe and Mail

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