http://saintjohnshawn.com Views from Saint John, New Brunswick Wed, 16 May 2012 19:15:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=350 http://saintjohnshawn.com/2012/04/30/campaign-on-the-clock-2012/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=campaign-on-the-clock-2012 http://saintjohnshawn.com/2012/04/30/campaign-on-the-clock-2012/#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:10:24 +0000 Shawn http://saintjohnshawn.com/?p=3486 FUSION Saint John is once again organizing a “Campaign on the Clock” to give Saint John residents a chance to meet many of the 2012 Municipal Election Candidates in person. I was at the event during the previous Municipal Election (in 2008), and I found it to be a great opportunity to quickly meet and ask

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Read More…]]> http://saintjohnshawn.com/2010/09/28/women-focusing-on-a-ha-moments/feed/ 0 http://saintjohnshawn.com/2010/09/15/thanks-to-technology-theres-no-reason-why-we-cant-cast-educated-votes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=thanks-to-technology-theres-no-reason-why-we-cant-cast-educated-votes http://saintjohnshawn.com/2010/09/15/thanks-to-technology-theres-no-reason-why-we-cant-cast-educated-votes/#comments Wed, 15 Sep 2010 12:04:27 +0000 Shawn http://saintjohnshawn.com/?p=2178 This column previously appeared in the Telegraph-Journal on September 14th, 2010. The article was written by FUSION Saint John’s Claire Ryan: Campaign season is in full swing in New Brunswick. There are interesting points of discussion and debate surrounding this election, not the least of which being voter turnout. In the past two provincial elections, approximately 70

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Read More…]]> http://saintjohnshawn.com/2010/09/07/young-people-can-learn-from-business-leaders/feed/ 0 http://saintjohnshawn.com/2010/09/04/harvesting-the-arts-moved-to-sunday/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=harvesting-the-arts-moved-to-sunday http://saintjohnshawn.com/2010/09/04/harvesting-the-arts-moved-to-sunday/#comments Sat, 04 Sep 2010 19:10:55 +0000 Shawn http://saintjohnshawn.com/?p=2091 We were all expecting the worst; but, Hurricane Earl seems to have passed us by here in Saint John, NB. As a precaution on Friday, Harvesting the Arts was delayed one day just in case the weather was bad. Today’s TJ had a great article on the Festival, check it out below: SAINT JOHN –

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