Terrifying Driver on Berry Mills Road Takes to Highway
According to freelance reporter Wade Perry, this video footage from a dashcam late yesterday afternoon captured an erratic driver barrelling down the wrong side of the Number 2 highway between Moncton and Salisbury.
The driver was reported to authorities by numerous people including paramedics who witnessed the driver speeding up the wrong side of the Berry Mills road causing oncoming traffic to veer out of the way.
The driver eventually crashed into another car near Petitcodiac and was arrested. No word on the state of injuries to either party.
Dash cam footage shared with Wade Perry.
Moncton City Council Summary for May 16th: The Rezoning Edition
A number of rezoning requests went through and passed council last night. There were two objections to two different projects that were vocalized by citizens. However they only were heard after the motion was put forward and accepted. And the vote for Deputy Mayor, which for a moment, looked like it was not going to happen after the process was already started.
This and more in just nine-and-a-half minutes.
Hairy Tease Productions is at it again with a great Norm Foster play Half Way There directed by the timeless Michael Granville. In this segment we get to speak with two of the main actors, Bethany Robertson and Matt Kinney.
Moncton City Council Summary: The Law and Order Edition
Over two hours of the four hour meeting revolved around public safety and the rising rate of crime in the city.
Within a few weeks a west end area resident had over 1,000 signatures to her Make Moncton Safe Again petition which she brought to council along with numerous stories of concern. The former financial professional articulated to council how serious the situation was and responded to councillors questions with ideas of action. Ironically during the tail end of this discussion buzzlocal was notified that an armed standoff with police got underway in the Old West End, as if emphasizing the point she was making that the city was not as safe as it once was.
The meeting also included another petition asking for authorities to uphold the excessive noise bylaw, a number of paving contracts awarded along with a presentation on the numerous events coming to the city this summer. All this and more in under 18 mins.
Enough is Enough
Moncton, whose crime rate according to Statistics Canada has risen to almost 50% more than the national average, has many wondering why nothing seems to be underway to stop it. One local area resident has become so frustrated by city hall’s lack of response to the rise in crime in her west end neighbourhood, that she started a petition in order to be heard.
Kim Christie-Gallant’s initial neighbourhood driveway petition has moved online to change.org and she will be presenting her grievances to council this coming Monday evening. Our conversation with Christie-Gallant.
260 mins down to just 13. Everything you need to know from last night’s Moncton city council meeting on April 19th.
It was a heavily packed agenda covering north end smells, close to $100 million dollars worth of sewer and drain repairs needed, to a pitch for a guaranteed livable income to help the 20% of Monctonians living below the poverty line, to more apartments and road repairs, the overview of the policing study as per the RFP to be issued on same, a secret letter, to the council’s extra salary increase review, and more!
Are the crime rates as bad as people think or is it just a perception? How many police officers do we really have? A monument dedicated to Martin Luther King Jr. And a renovation of the operational facility to the tune of $16.6 million. All this and much more in the Moncton city council summary in just 12 mins.
Last night’s Moncton city council came in at just over 240 minutes but it’s here for you in just eleven.
The evening covered a number of items but the big ticket item was the vote to move forward with the $57M police station. The amount was more than the original estimate but less than recent ones. It was not a unanimous decision with the vote almost equally split, four to five. Hear what questions were asked, by who, and what answers were given on this important public safety project.
An interesting turn of the tables.
Imagine you move to a country that does not follow the Christian calendar and you tell your boss you want to take a long weekend that none of your co-workers are taking to celebrate a religious holiday of yours. Your boss may say ‘I heard this holiday is celebrated in part by a large white rabbit that hides chocolate eggs for your children to find?’ Without them knowing all the details of what the holiday really means to you and your family you may feel a little reluctant to press the issue, particularly because you’re new, so say never mind. But the Holliday was important to you and your family so they miss out. Imagine now people moving to New Brunswick in the same sort of situation. This in part is one example of systemic racism, that is doing or saying things that have been normalized in our society but does not reflect the needs of the minority or marginalized. And it is often normalized it can become difficult to see.
Dr. Manju Varma, the Commissioner of Systemic Racism for the Province of NB (and the first in the country) joins us to talk about what her one-year mandate is, what she had found so far, and what happens next.
What would you do if you woke up in your home only to find out that your city was now occupied and there was no way out? For Irina Shaposhnikova this was the reality for her and her young daughter. Sealed off from the outside world with dwindling food supplies and a finite amount of water, they wait to see how or when the international community can help them. But Irina and her fellow citizens remain defiant while many of their family and friends, some right here in the Greater Moncton area, can only watch, wait and try to raise funds to help.
Irina gives a first hand look at what life is like to be living inside an occupied city.
‘We don’t know what day it is anymore. Now we only count the days from the time the invasion started.
Like today is day fifteen and not ‘Thursday’.
Iryna Shylkina from the port city of Odessa in Ukraine. Iryna speaks with us about what life is like now, and how she and her fellow citizens didn’t take the international warnings seriously enough because they just didn’t believe it could happen.
‘My Dad was trying to tell us he would be OK but I could hear the bombs in the background.’ Lana, a recent Canadian citizen from one of the areas hardest hit takes some comfort from the gathering outside Moncton city hall but fears for her father’s life.
