NB schools to ban cellphone use ‘except when kids really need to sext or check Instagram’
New Brunswick — Schools in the Picture Province are taking a page from Ontario’s book and finally banning cellphone use…
NB schools teaching cursive for fancy illiteracy
New Brunswick — The debate has been raging over whether to keep instructing children how to write in cursive, and…
Fredericton-area schools never to be closed again for snow, apparently
Fredericton — With yet another morning of shovelling driveways, cleaning snow off of vehicles and generally just hating nature, residents…
NB Education Dept. rolling out ‘emoji grades’
Fredericton — Only three years after introducing a new evaluation system for New Brunswick students, the “achievement scale” system is…
Schools open today to make up for snow day last week
Fredericton — Apparently two wrongs sometimes do make a right, at least in the eyes of David McTimoney, superintendent of…
Premier Stephen McNeil locks out everyone in Nova Scotia
Halifax — “Nobody fucking do anything,” Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil said to a press scrum at Government House on…