Jonathan Schaffer (metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language) and Susanna Schellenberg (philosophy of mind, epistemology), both at the Australian National University, have accepted tenured offers as, respectively, professor and associate professor at Rutgers University at New Brunswick, to start in 2011...
About 150 people turned out Saturday for a candlelight vigil in Fredericton to honour the memory of Hilary Bonnell, a teenager who was buried this week after being missing for more than two months.
This youtube video is a lecture by Lord Moncton on climate change just prior to the Copenhagen Summit. There is a powerpoint presentation which goes with the youtube video (it comes up naturally on the Youtube video). The event was sponsored by the Minnesota Free Market Institute. It's on the sceptical side of the climate debate. H/T Life Site News
Canadian warship HMCS Fredericton has taken up anti-piracy duties off east Africa and will spend the next six months patrolling in the Gulf of Aden and off the Horn of Africa.
I thought to call this “Endless Blogger,” as a take-off on one of my favorite movies Endless Summer; in a perfect world, we’d just cross the Piscataqua into Maine, following that long coastline downeast, then cross the St. Croix into New Brunswick, and see sights and meet folks . . . until some day the [...]
If so, soon you may have your answer! 24 willow saplings from derived from clones of trees in Fredericton, New Brunswick and Truro, Nova Scotia are now in space!! The saplings were launched into space last Monday via NASA's space transport shuttle - Atlantis. They are on their way to the international space station. Rodney Savidge , a professor in the faculty of forestry and environmental management...
“When asked whether she thought the economic crisis was being used as a smokescreen to attack workers, [NBCNHU President] Black said, “Any economist that you talk with that has the working class people in mind will tell you that it is a capitalist agenda to move forward with a wage freeze, and to blame it [...]
New Brunswick has let many of its young people, particularly those in First Nations communities, suffer in "shocking" conditions, says the province's child and youth advocate.
Kidney dialysis patients in northwest New Brunswick have received an early Christmas present from the provincial government - funding to operate local dialysis machines six days a week, which will end travelling for treatment.