From Gallery 78: Smart ways to support local businesses, which is ALWAYS important. 1 - Telling friends & family 2 - Following on social media 3 - Engaging with their posts 4 - Giving them a shoutout 5 - Signing up for their newsletter 6 - Leaving a positive review on Google!

Writer Lauren Korn on Feminist Fredericton, Part 1: What do women notice? nbmediacoop.org/2020/05/26/fem…

Who will be our mayor? Fredericton groups host public question session with mayoral candidates nbmediacoop.org/2021/04/13/who…

I will be participating in this Dialogue on Saturday in my bid for Ward 1's seat on City Council. Thanks for the tweet @RuthbreenC

Hit the Northside Trail: I and my volunteers will be at a table on the trail at McAdam Avenue tomorrow from 10am-1pm and we would love to meet you. Mini-pots containing future giants will be given to those who stop by to chat. Come pick up trail garbage. COVID protocols observed

I retweet this because a civil society group I support asked Fredericton City Council on several occasions to present on declaring a Climate Emergency. They refused to hear or refer us to Committee. STU Students got same treatment. How is that democracy?

Red Trilliums are just about ready to flower on the Preserve.

Seems appropriate to mark this day. Too many are killed working for others' benefit. The COVID pandemic has seen too many deaths of essential workers. Thank you to those who remain on the job despite the dangers.

On #RedDressDay, we remember and honour the many Indigenous women and girls we have lost to violence. More must be done to stand up against this injustice – and to enact the recommendations of the National Inquiry. #MMIWG

So pleased to be able to feature some of the very talented artists in Ward 1 in Fredericton. Karen Leblanc is a weaver and Brigitte Clavette is a metalsmith. There are so many others tucked away...know any of them?

Out knocking on doors today. Great reception (had a mask on & stood well away from the door). Record #of comments on Officers' Square--most bad, only one saying "get it done." This on Manresa Dr., frmr home to Ward 1 & Officers Square 'revitalization' supporter Councillor Keenan.

Tax avoidance, whether in the Isle of Man, Bermuda or elsewhere, is "fraud" - a massive rip-off of those of us who actually ante up and pay our fair share of taxes. cbc.ca/news/politics/…

When someone moans about $3.5 trillion spending over 10 years, perhaps remind them that the estimates for the cost of unchecked climate change top out at $551 trillion, which is more money than there is on earth at the moment.

Canada's one of the world's biggest financiers of fossil fuels. This isn't climate leadership. Will you end funding of int'l fossil fuel projects by 2022 Steven Guilbeault Jonathan Wilkinson 🇨🇦? #COP26 you.leadnow.ca/petitions/end-… via Leadnow

At 7pm on Dec. 8 I will be participating in a municipal councillor discussion on climate change fb.me/e/1tHo0G1UO Included in this shindig are me, Sabine Dietz from Sackville, a Councillor from Quispamsis and Brent Harris of Saint John (convenor).

Legislature's committee on climate change is beginning five days of meetings this morning at 10 a.m. to hear from experts on a new five-year plan for the province. Some background here: cbc.ca/news/canada/ne…

Story: cbc.ca/news/canada/ne…

Join me and chip in to help Stand.earth protect primary forests from being turned into wood pellets: act.stand.earth/page/27316/don… Biomass is extremely problematic and needs to be exposed as such.

Kingston ON gets a P.A.C.E. program for home energy retrofits. fcm.ca/en/news-media/… NB Municipalities (with few exceptions) cannot access this money to help their citizens. Need legislative change from PNB to facilitate this.