The eighth annual Silver Wave Film Festival is taking place in Fredericton, New Brunswick this week from Thursday November 13th until Sunday November 16th. Screenings will take place at Tilley Hall on the UNB campus, the Charlotte Street Arts Centre and the Centre communautaire Sainte Anne.
Not the Toronto International Film Festival
Although it is a smaller [...]
Two Fredericton IT firms have recently merged to create a powerful Atlantic Canadian provider of information technology and management services. Accreon which has 65 employees is acquiring ISOMNI and its 25 employees for an undisclosed sum. With this acquisition, Accreon becomes of the largest independent IT services companies in Atlantic Canada.
Accreon, itself created out of [...]
Find some great videos and pictures of the great Fredericton flood of 2008.
The Saint John river in New Brunswick is bursting its banks in the 2008 flood. Find out more information on the Fredericton floods and resources for monitoring the floods.
The Killarney Cup pond hockey tournament starts on Friday the 22nd at 6 pm at Killarney Lake in Fredericton and will continue throughout the weekend. There are already 65 teams registered with 4 of those being in the Ladies Division and 8 teams in the Over 35 category. This is up from the [...]
The 20th annual East Coast Music Awards and Conference are being held in Fredericton, New Brunswick from the 7th to the 10th of February. This is the first time that Fredericton hosts the awards festival and only the third time in its twenty year history that the show will be in New Brunswick (Moncton [...]
The Intelligent Community Forum has released it’s top seven picks for the most intelligent city in the world. Fredericton, New Brunswick is singled out for its municipal fiber carrier (e-Novations) and Fred-eZone its freely available municipal wireless network.
One must take into account that the Intelligent Community Forum is a “think tank that focuses on the [...]
Last week Statistics Canada released its Labour Force Survey for the month of November. As I have done in previous months, I will look at some of the numbers and try to spot some trends especially when it comes to the province of New Brunswick and the Fredericton region in particular.
The headline numbers in this [...]
Last week the New Brunswick Department of Transportation made available its highway cameras online. There are over 30 cameras which allow users to see road and weather conditions around the province before travelling (or just out of curiosity).
One glaring omission is the lack of cameras along the Highway 2 which being the Trans-Canada highway is [...]
Last Friday, Statistics Canada released their latest Labour Force Information update. The headline results appear quite rosy.
Nationally, 63000 jobs were created and the unemployment rate fell to a 33 year low of 5.8%. One highlighted detail is that most of the employment gains were in the health care and social assistance fields - [...]
