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CTV News
16 hours ago
- CTV News
Alert Ready message issued outside Fredericton for people reportedly carrying firearms
An Alert Ready message advising residents to shelter in place has been issued outside Fredericton Tuesday morning. The New Brunswick RCMP said in a post on social media just after 8 a.m. that it was searching for a person believed to be 'carrying weapons with dangerous intent' in the area of Route 104 in Zealand. An Alert Ready message was issued about 20 minutes later in the Zealand and Burtts Corner regions. Alert Ready message An Alert Ready message issued in New Brunswick the morning of July 29, 2025. Police now say they are searching for 'individuals' reported to be carrying weapons. Correction - Police are searching for individuals who are believed to be carrying weapons with dangerous intent in the area of Route 104 in #Zealand. — RCMP New Brunswick (@RCMPNB) July 29, 2025 Residents are asked to shelter in place and avoid the area. More to come… For more New Brunswick news, visit our dedicated provincial page.
CTV News
2 days ago
- Politics
- CTV News
New Brunswick spending $9.2M on transition homes, gender-based violence services
A file photo of the New Brunswick flag flying outside the provincial legislature in Fredericton. (Source: Nick Moore/CTV News Atlantic)
CTV News
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- CTV News
Artists in Fredericton residency program put public work on display
Tucked under the shade in Fredericton's Botanic Garden, Gary Crosby hammers and chisels, giving a large log new meaning. Slice by slice, the wood chips fall and a face forms. He's carving a mythological Green Man. For the seventh summer, public art is on display and the city's Artist in Residency program is offering a window into the world of how someone's creativity becomes their creation. 'The Green man is a combination mixture of a human figure and forest leaves and growth. It's usually a sign of spring,' Crosby said. At Killarney Lake Park on Fredericton's Northside, Sarah Maloney eyes her surroundings to inspire her creations. Last week she embroidered flowers. This week, she's making wax moulds of Lady's Slippers and finches that will be cast in bronze. Her work responds to the natural world. Art is how she understands it. Fredericton Crosby and Maloney are Fredericton's latest summer Artists in Residence. 'It's how I make the world make sense through looking at things and making things in response to the things I see and learn and observe and collect and immerse myself in the natural environment,' Maloney said. Crosby and Maloney are Fredericton's latest summer Artists in Residence. It's a rotating program that lasts two weeks and includes eight artists between the end of June and August. Each gets a weekly stipend from the city. 'They're in residence for two weeks. And they just get to create based on their environment. And it's an opportunity for people using the park to meet an artist, see what they're up to,' said Angela Watson, Fredericton's Cultural Development Officer. Crosby joined the Canadian Armed Forces in 1981 and has toured in Germany, Bosnia, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Afghanistan and Honduras. Carving offers an escape. 'The rest of the world falls away, and I just focus on what I'm doing,' he said. Thirty monarch butterflies he carved now rest atop the rafters of Fredericton's Bill Thorpe Walking Bridge, a popular spot for locals and tourists alike. He's also made sculptures of Mother Nature and a Green Man for Fundy National Park. During his residency, he will also construct a sculpture that will feature in a short story. 'There's a short story which I'm building into a book about, a young UNB student who finds a Green Man in the forest that just sort of came to life,' Crosby said. Maloney is a contemporary sculptor and textile artist. A survey of more than 25 years of her work will be on display at Fredericton's Beaverbrook Art Gallery until Oct. 19. The works are part of an exhibition called Sarah Maloney's Pleasure Ground: A Feminist Take on the Natural World. One of the highlights includes a display called Water Level, which exhibits several bronze water lilies and lily pads on steel stems. When walking through, you can imagine walking through a pond or lake at water level. But on this day, her focus is on a workshop for the public. It's part of the residency. 'Mostly it's to pique their curiosity about things and get them to see something in a new light,' she said. Last week she taught embroidery. This week it's clay modelling. Steve Banks brought his two granddaughters back to this week's workshop after enjoying the first week so much. 'Spending a couple hours quality time, it's nice,' he said. Both artists bring people along for their journey. 'Any of this stuff I've got here, they get to see it being created and being done and what my thought process is as I go through it,' said Crosby, adding that seeing art hanging on a wall or in a gallery or shop is one thing to actually talk to the artist as they create it is another perspective. 'It just creates more questions. And the inquiring minds want to know.'
CBC
4 days ago
- General
- CBC
Pilot project introduces fresh fruit to Fredericton park
Social Sharing Fresh produce is an expensive commodity in this day and age, but a pilot project in Fredericton hopes to expand access to fresh fruit and other ingredients. The city's parks and trees department, along with kids from the multicultural centre, spent a day in June planting 30 skinny fruit trees in Wilmot Park, each inside a mulch circle with sunflower stalks on either side to protect the trees. While the trees might seem bare right now, Victoria Cray, an urban forest technician for the City of Fredericton, said she estimates the trees will start bearing fruit in five to seven years. "Fruit trees do take a little bit to get bigger, but after that, they'll be producing fruit for the rest of their life," she said. Cray said the trees came from Quebec, but the city hopes to start its own fruit trees by seed in the future. The trees include plums, pears, apples, cherries and mulberries. Along with the trees, the food forest includes some plants that were sourced from the Fredericton region such as borage, which has edible leaves that can be used in salads or dressings; chamomile, which can be used in teas or for medicinal uses; as well as poppy, oregano, thyme, chives and others. Cray said the project was relatively cost effective, with the most expensive thing being the trees, since the perennials — more than 100 of them — were all grown locally. "I think this is why it will work in the future, because especially with growing our own trees … we'll be cutting costs a lot," she said. Cray hopes that if given the go-ahead, she can expand the planting to the north side of Fredericton along some of the trails next year. The City of Saint John took on a similar project last year called the "blossom buffet," planting 43 fruit trees in Queen Square West using a $10,000 grant from Tree Canada. In Moncton, the city said it planted six cherry trees at the front steps of the Moncton Coliseum over the last couple of years as well as 32 arguta kiwi vines at the Ian Fowler Oval. At the Fredericton fruit forest, Cray hopes for more signage to be added in the future that will explain what's growing and that people should take what they need and leave some for others. The trees are small at the moment, said Cray, but as they grow, they can be pruned as big or small as you want them. She said the department hopes to keep them relatively small so people of all ages can pick from them. Cray said there's another benefit to having small trees. "A smaller tree … has more time to establish and have a better system for the future," she said.
CBC
21-07-2025
- Health
- CBC
Fredericton mobile outreach van to run 24/7 thanks to federal funding
An outreach team run out of a Sprinter van is now working around the clock thanks to funding through a federal overdose prevention fund. "With the teamwork and the smarts that we have here in Fredericton, along with the support that we've received from the federal government, I am confident that this project is going to have a meaningful life changing impact," said Fredericton Mayor Kate Rogers. The funding will expand the hours of the mobile outreach team, which helps to connect those living rough to services, administers and distributes naloxone kits, and provides addictions support. The van was purchased by the City of Fredericton and is run by the John Howard Society of Fredericton. Six new staff members will be hired and trained in mental-health first aid, trauma informed care, overdose prevention and suicide intervention. John Barrow, executive director of the John Howard Society, said the team now works with about 200 people a day and 30 people a night. The daytime service has been in place for nearly a decade. "I think the biggest thing is to meet people where they're at," Barrow said. "A lot of times when they're requesting intervention or support services, the time to do it is in the moment." "We've got a team now that can respond to folks who are directly on the streets at the point when they want the intervention. That's the time to strike." The funding comes from the Emergency Treatment Fund and is one of four programs in Atlantic Canada receiving a total of $2.8 million. Miramichi, Amherst, Nova Scotia, and St. John's are the other three communities receiving funding for community programs, but neither the Fredericton event nor the news release included any details about what those programs are. The Fredericton portion of the funding is $578,100. Fredericton addictions outreach van to go 24/7 21 minutes ago Federal Health Minister Marjorie Michelle was in Fredericton for the announcement and confirmed the funding is only for one year, after which the program will be "reassessed." "We don't know, you know, in a year where we will be with this crisis, is it going to improve? Is it going to be a big one? So we will adapt," she said. "We need to understand talking about mental health challenges, those crises, it cannot be solved in one day. We collectively have to improve access for people to get not only emergency [services], but also treatment and what works for them." Rogers was quick to say the City of Fredericton will enure the program receives the funding it needs. "I'm certain it will demonstrate that it has had an impact," she said. "When you work with a trusted organization like John Howard, I think we all work together to see how we can continue to support that project. We have been supporting them, locally, provincially and I know the federal government will now see proof of concept in this work." Roger said she is "confident that we will see ongoing support for this project."
