Eclipse day in N.B.: Closer to home, 'full circle'
CBC eclipse teams on the ground across the province
As New Brunswickers prepare to witness the solar eclipse, CBC News will have on the ground coverage from different parts of the province along the eclipse's path of totality.
A solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes in front of the sun. And when the moon completely covers the sun, it is considered a total solar eclipse.
Fredericton, Woodstock, Miramichi and Carleton North are among the areas of New Brunswick on the path of totality.
Some other regions, including Moncton, will witness a deep partial eclipse with nearly total coverage of the sun.
Closer to home, 'full circle'
In 2017, Mary King of Miramichi travelled more than 4,000 kilometres to view the total solar eclipse in Idaho. This time around, she's just going to take a few steps into the backyard for the same experience.
And there will be more family around too.
"It's bringing the story full circle," she said.
King said seeing a total eclipse gave her a feeling of genuine awe. She said people lucky enough to spend a few minutes in the moon's shadow should take a moment to fully experience it.
"I'm going to set a timer on my phone and just make sure I take a minute for myself. Just to look around and breathe it, and feel it on your skin and feel it in your bones," she said.
Mary
King of Miramichi is wearing the T-shirt she bought in Idaho to
commemorate seeing the total eclipse in 2017. This time around, she's
going to be experiencing the same event from the comfort of her parents'
farm. (Khalil Akhtar/CBC)
King is a member of the Royal Astronomical Society. She said many people have asked her what the 2017 eclipse was like, and she struggles to put it into words.
"It's kind of a green light. Sometimes you feel like you're in the Matrix and other times you feel like this is a totally unique experience that they haven't made a movie on yet," she said.
She said she's thankful for all the people who worked to prepare Miramichi to host visitors who want that experience.
"I'm really proud of my city."
Lucky weather
Against the odds, Monday's weather is expected to be mostly clear and eclipse-viewing friendly.
CBC meteorologist Ryan Snodden said the Maritimes will be one of the best places in North America to view the solar eclipse, with warm temperatures and mostly clear skies.
Overall, temperatures are expected to be mild, ranging from 10 C to 14 C in most of New Brunswick, cooler closer to the shore.
Some cloud will move southward into the province this afternoon, but Snodden said its impact will likely be minimal.
"It's certainly not going to be overcast, it's certainly not going to be mostly cloudy."
The winds will be northwest, 20 km/h gusting to 40 km/h, making temperatures feel a little bit cooler.
Capturing the event from up in the air
Brothers David and Lawson Hunter, and a team of volunteers, have an ingenious way of capturing the once-in-a-lifetime total eclipse. In Florenceville, at around 3 p.m., they plan to launch a balloon with a telescope to view the eclipse from above the clouds.
The balloon will carry a camera that will live stream, from up to 30 kilometres into the stratosphere, video and images of the sun, moon and horizon. People can find the EclipseUpClose livetream on YouTube and there are seven in-person viewing centres: Florenceville-Bristol, Woodstock, Hartland, Perth-Andover, Plaster Rock, and Grand Falls.
Harnessing eclipse momentum
For Stephane Picard, the eclipse as an opportunity to kickstart New Brunswick's astro-tourism industry.
The Quispamsis man organized the first conference for astronomy tourism, called Astronomy East, on the weekend. The conference and trade show in Miramichi had astrophotographers, stargazers and dark-sky advocates.
Picard said the people coming to watch the eclipse from elsewhere are not used to seeing the stars that most New Brunswickers see every night.
He said about 80 per cent of Americans, and 60 per cent of Canadians, are unable to see the milky way where they live.
A
photo of the milky way taken at Mount Carleton Provincial Park in
central New Brunswick. The park was designated a dark-sky preserve in
2009. (Submitted by Brad Perry)
"In populated areas, they're missing out on the grandest show in the universe."
For this reason, he said, the New Brunswick sky is not something to be taken for granted.
Picard recently quit his day job and is focusing on working with communities to develop dark-sky sites, light pollution mitigation, and including amateur astronomy and stargazing in their tourism strategies.
"New Brunswick has tons of beautiful areas to go, lots to do during the day," he said. "What do you do with these visitors? Well, now at night there's something that we have," he said.
"The weather doesn't always co-operate, but when it does, we have some of the best dark-sky sites in all of Canada."
Just when it happens
According to the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, the partial eclipse will begin at around 3:22 p.m. for western regions of the province and between 3:25 p.m. and 3:26 p.m. for eastern regions.
Total darkness will occur a little over an hour later. For the western regions along the path of totality, the starting time is 4:32 p.m., with the locations at the end of the path of totality in New Brunswick entering full darkness at around 4:34 to 4:36 p.m.
It could last anywhere from a little more than a minute to around four minutes.
The entire eclipse will have ended by around 4:36 p.m. in New Brunswick.
How to follow the eclipse with CBC New Brunswick
CBC New will be in several locations bringing you the latest on the eclipse, need-to-know information and interviews with people out to experience the phenomenon.
The three Information Morning shows joined forces for a provincewide remote broadcast jointly hosted from Miramichi, Fredericton and Florenceville-Bristol, in Carleton North. The recorded broadcast is available online and on the CBC Listen app.
Reporters will be on the ground in those three locations, and in Moncton, where festivities will be taking place to celebrate the eclipse.
Continue checking the CBC New Brunswick website throughout the day for up-to-date video, livestreams and stories.
In this case... Physics.
( God couldn't afford to pay his increased NB Hydro Bill ?)
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It began in 1974
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Michael Kydd asked Trudeau in 2013, 'Can you really beat Harper?' and got note in reply
CBC Mainstreet · CBC News · Posted: Oct 21, 2015 3:43 PM ADT
Hugh MacDonald
Wonder if Higgs will take credit for the eclipse passing over the province.
Dave Sellers
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It's federal...JT will.
David Amos
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Of course
Glenn O'Halloran
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James Allison
Sunny ways!!!
David Amos
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Amen
Don Ralphington
Quick note, one shouldnt even glance at the eclipse during the totality. It can permanently damage your eyes.
Fred Sanford
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A quick glance at the sun on a clear day doesn't hurt your eyes - why would it do so during a partial eclipse?
Richard Bend
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Sorry - incorrect. During the totality (most places just a few minutes long), it is perfectly safe to view the eclipse.
David Amos
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Tut Tut Tut
Robert Brannen
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Your pupils are nearly fully dilatated during the total eclipse, the solar energy that is reaching your eyes at that time was emitted by the sun about 8 minutes earlier when the sun was not fully obscured.
Richard Bend
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Hoo boy... If you're watching the eclipse through ISO-12312 certified glasses, all you will see is the sun. As soon as the sun is completely covered by the moon, you will see... nothing. At this point, it is safe to remove your glasses. Just be sure to put them back on before the sun re-appears!
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William Murdoch
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Philip Burfoot
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???
Al Clark
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socks and hair; the basis of the last ten Reform campaigns.
David Amos
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Ditto
Diva Decatte
What they didn't tell you was to take a jacket along...it gets surprising cold quickly when the sun disappears...
David Amos
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The far side of the moon won't be so chilly today
Frank Wadden
Moon getting this close to the sun? Dangerous times. I hope they don't fuse. I know i'll be praying for God to step in.
Jack Bell
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pft... god. What has that guy done for anyone lately?
I plan on paying homage to Odin.
Jesue promised to rid the world of sin, Odin said he would get rid of frost giants and I don't see any frost giants... do you?
Bobby Richards
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Faytene and Pastor Kris Austin will be praying too
Philip Burfoot
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Not really familiar with how the solar system works?
Frank Wadden
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More familiar with how Gods work. More important info when you consider eternity.
Al Clark
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C'mon now, only one G at a time. It's a rule.
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You can't tell me you honestly think 1 God splits every celestial body in the entire universe. Use some Common Sense
David Amos
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Dream on
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Allan Marven
Don't need cbc to tell me where the sun is.
Frank Wadden
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Yup! Always North. Thanks cbc
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Yup! Always North!
Mike Barkman
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Yes. Yes you do. Science be hard for you.
David Amos
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Some do
Tracey Smith
The school district dropped the ball on releasing the early dismissal times. They should have given the kids a day off, since they didn't use many snow days.
David Amos
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Good point
Jimmy Cochrane
Be afraid. In this place.
Philip Burfoot
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Don’t worry!
David Amos
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Be happy
David Will
I got my vaccines so I am good to stare at the sun.
Jimmy Cochrane
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You made my day bro. Thanks for that.
John Brown
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Looks like you are good to go!
Glenn O'Halloran
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Good on you, Mr Trump.
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Enjoy
danny rugg
Very high tides today. Not much mention about it.
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C'est Vrai
Justin Trudeau's 'Just watch me' note to Halifax man sold on eBay
Michael Kydd asked Trudeau in 2013, 'Can you really beat Harper?' and got note in reply
Someone now has a bit of Trudeau history — for a cool $12,301.
A note by prime minister-designate Justin Trudeau was put up for sale on the online auction site eBay earlier this week.
In 2013, Trudeau, then running for the Liberal Party leadership, answered a note passed to him from a Conservative Party supporter while on a plane from Halifax to Ottawa.
The note read, "Justin, can you really beat Harper?"
Michael Kydd is originally from Hamilton, but moved to Nova Scotia about 12 years ago. (CBC)
"I was kind of testing Justin to see what kind of person he was and I think that's what Canadians voted for," said Michael Kydd, who once worked for the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia.
Kydd was grading papers on that late-night flight when he saw Trudeau sitting three rows ahead. Kydd jotted down his question and handed it to the flight attendant.
"She looked at me strangely, as anyone would expect. She walked up, handed it to him," Kydd told CBC Mainstreet.
"About 20 minutes later the note came back and it said, 'Mike, Just watch me,'" Kydd said.
Trudeau was referencing his father Pierre Trudeau's famous words during the October Crisis.
eBay money would 'help with the kids'
Following Monday's historic election, which coloured the entire Atlantic region Liberal red, Kydd posted the note on eBay with a starting bid price of $2,500. As of Wednesday at noon, no bids had been placed.
But by the time bidding closed on Thursday afternoon, there were 62 bids and the note had sold for $12,301.
Prime minister-designate Justin Trudeau later told Kydd the note got him in trouble with the party. (Adrian Wyld/Canadian Press)
Although Kydd didn't expect the paper to sell, he thought it was worth a try.
"I've had a bit of a rough year so I think I could certainly use some of that to help with the kids and everything else," Kydd said. "Part of me still wants to keep that note."
Kydd left his teaching position at Halifax's Mount Saint Vincent University last year when a relationship with an adult student became public.
"I expect my career to be ruined," he told CBC News at the time. Kydd now runs a crisis management firm.
'He certainly lived up to those words'
Kydd and Trudeau later met again while walking through the Fairmont Château Laurier in Ottawa, he says. Trudeau approached him and asked why he looked familiar. Kydd reminded him of 'Just watch me' on the plane.
"I think [Trudeau] jumped about four feet high and he put his finger on my chest and he said, 'You have no idea how much trouble you got me into with the Liberal Party of Canada over that,'" Kydd said.
"I said, 'You have no idea how much trouble I got into with the Conservative Party and with the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia over that one.'"
Trudeau tweeted to confirm the authenticity of the note at the time.
"I had a good chuckle at it, a good laugh out of that, and he certainly lived up to those words," Kydd said.
Fundy Royal campaign targets middle class with focus on jobs
Fundy Royal voters have elected Conservatives all but 1 time in 28 elections over 101 years
CBC News · Posted: Oct 17, 2015 6:00 AM ADT
Fundy Royal campaign targets middle class with focus on jobs
Fundy Royal voters have elected Conservatives all but 1 time in 28 elections over 101 years
Candidates running in Fundy Royal are appealing to the middle class in the typically Tory-dominant riding, with a focus on jobs and the economy.
The Conservatives have strong roots in the southern New Brunswick riding — this area has given its support to the Conservatives in every election for the past century, save for 1993, when Liberal Paul Zed won office.
In 2011, Conservative incumbent Rob Moore captured nearly 60 per cent of the vote.
Moore said he hopes the party's record, with its focus on the economy and direct benefits to people, will earn him another term in office.
- AUDIO: Green candidate: Stephanie Coburn
- AUDIO: Liberal candidate Alaina Lockhart
- AUDIO: NDP candidate Jennifer McKenzie
- AUDIO: Conservative candidate Rob Moore
The Tory incumbent pointed to programs, such as the Universal Childcare Benefit, as well as family income splitting and pension income splitting, that has left more money in the pockets of Canadians.
But, he said, he has also delivered on bringing federal cash to his ridinng.
Moore says the biggest question he's heard at the door is how the next government will move the regions's economy forward.
He says the answer lies in TransCanada Corp.'s proposed Energy East pipeline.
"The [Irving Oil] refinery is employing many people in our region, there's a lot of spinoff benefits, and if we can bring that resource from Alberta to New Brunswick to be refined and sold from our port, that is a great economic opportunity," said Moore.
Liberals focus on seniors, middle class
Liberal
Leader Justin Trudeau campaigned in Sussex earlier in the campaign. The
Liberals are hoping to knock off the Tories for only the second time in
a century. (Courtesy Alaina Lockhart/Facebook)Liberal candidate Alaina Lockhart said she is trying to appeal her campaign to the middle class.
"That's the majority of Fundy Royal," said Lockhart, who has owned Lockhart's Weddings and Special Occasions Inc. since 2004.
"People working everyday to make ends meet and the fact that we have a national campaign focused on strengthening the middle class to put more money in their pockets to then stimulate the economy, I'm encouraged by that," she said.
Lockhart says her party's focus on seniors through initiatives like affordable housing, strengthening the Canada Pension Plan and guaranteed income supplement would benefit the region.
"They worked hard their whole lives and we need to make sure they have secure retirements," she said.
Hopeful for change
NDP candidate Jennifer McKenzie says she's sensing an eagerness for change in the large riding.
McKenzie, an electrical engineer living in St. Martins, threw her name in after becoming "discouraged and disillusioned by the current government."
People want our youth back, we want to have reasons to stay here.
- NDP candidate Jennifer McKenzie
The region has lost a lot of its youth because of the Harper government's lack of focus on the economy, she said.
" be part of the economy and have jobs," she asid.
"The current government's focus on the prairie provinces in the oil and gas industry left New Brunswick and the Atlantic provinces neglected, and we actually had a three year recession here."
McKenzie says the NDP's focus on small business would better serve the area's economy.
"Our agricultural industry should be flourishing, we have to make sure we protect the family farm, there's fishing, forestry, I'm proud of our tourism initiatives, so much is a good fit to the NDP," she said.
Lost youth
The
proposed Energy East pipeline could add new jobs to the communities
inside Fundy Royal, according to Conservative MP Rob Moore. (Dan Riedlhuber/Reuters)Stephanie Coburn, the Green Party candidate for Fundy Royal, says the promise of 14,000 direct and indirect full-time jobs across Canada is "hugely exaggerated."
"The pipeline is a bad idea for people locally and we heard about the pipeline spills in northern Alberta and Michigan, and that ... oil they hope to bring in through the pipeline is impossible to cleanup," Coburn said.
"It's a bad idea nationally because it's all going to be exported … And it's going to contribute so much to the greenhouse gases we're trying to avoid to the globe, and exacerbate global warming terribly."
Coburn says she has heard encouragement for her party at the door, a big turnaround from when she first stepped into the political arena in 2010.
"Now I feel I'm finally not talking into the wind as I have been a long time about environmental issues," said Coburn.
"People are aware of the environmental problems we experience, and we're going to experience if we don't make some changes. That's a positive change from when I first ran."
Fundy Royal contains parts of the counties of Albert, Kings, Queens, Saint John and Westmorland and includes St. Martins, Salisbury, Sussex and Petitcodiac, as well as part of Quispamsis.
Justin Trudeau's 'Just watch me' note to Halifax man sold on eBay
Michael Kydd asked Trudeau in 2013, 'Can you really beat Harper?' and got note in reply
CBC Mainstreet · CBC News · Posted: Oct 21, 2015 3:43 PM ADT
Moore held the riding from 2004 until 2015 when he was defeated by Lockhart as part of the red wave that swept over Atlantic Canada that election.
Moore told Global News that he welcomed the chance to once again represent the people of the riding.
“I’m honoured to have been given a mandate of representing the people of Fundy Royal,” he said. “It’s not something I take lightly and I’m looking forward to it.”
Moore said he felt that the policies of Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government did not sit well with the residents of the rural New Brunswick riding.
“Issues like the carbon tax have not gone over well here,” he said. “Affordability is a big issue and our platform and our record addressed that concern.”
With the exception of Lockhart’s win, the riding has long been considered a reliable Conservative district for the past 100 years.
Only Liberal Paul Zed’s win in 1993 interrupted the Tories’ dominance in the riding.
New Brunswick premier Blaine Higgs was on-hand to congratulate Moore’s win and said he was overjoyed to see Fundy Royal return to a Conservative riding.
“If you go back in history, you see this riding was pretty traditional as a PC riding, so I think it’s coming back to its roots and Rob was certainly a representative that’s worthy of support, and only got stalled last time around because of that wave coming through,” said Higgs."
Do ya think the lawyer Rob Moore "The True Conservative" or any of the others would dare to debate me in writing with their true name within a website funded by the taxpayer and controlled by questionable public servants? How about outside the CROWN"s domain within the Yankee website called Twitter? That is where I play very serious Political Hard Ball. See for yourself or ask Rob Moore's hero Stevey Boy Harper if I am a liar or not.
https://twitter.com/DavidRayAmos/with_replieshttp://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/randy-quaid-release-jail-vermont-1.3274216
"I never worried about being found guilty or any of that for any of these charges because I know the truth, and I know the facts are going to come out at some point, and today was a good sign of that," Randy Quaid said
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/randy-quaid-court-appearance-1.3262238
"Quaid and his wife Evi, a Canadian citizen, have been living in Montreal since February 2013."
"Robert Gervais, an official with the Immigration and Refugee Board, confirmed in an email to CBC News that a detention review hearing for Quaid is scheduled for Thursday afternoon.
But the reason for the actor's arrest is unclear.
Quaid, 64, was detained Tuesday morning after attending a regular check-in with CBSA officials in downtown Montreal.
Quaid's lawyer, Mark Gruszczynski, declined to shed light on the affair or to reveal the reason for Quaid's arrest."
In return here is an old scoop about CTV that CBC and everybody else and his dog has been ignoring for 11 very long years after I ran in the election of the 38th Parliament against the aptly named lawyer Rob Moore.
http://thedavidamosrant.blogspot.ca/2013/08/re-bce-and-jean-pierre-blais-of-crtc.html
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