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The only way to solve the drug issue is to grant these purveyors of poison M.A.I.D. IF ITS GOOD ENOUGH FOR OUR Vets, its good enough for those trolling the depths of the less fortunate in our society.

I sometimes have to wonder about “traffic calming” , and lord help you if you somehow miss the slowdown needed to provide less than a bracing, possibly vehicle damaging hit. I’m thinking of Douglas Avenue, Churchill Blvd. I wonder when an accident is going to occur myself. Then there are the often pointless “Stop” signs on subdivision roads even when there are no other vehicles in sight. “Slow” doesn’t seem to count these days. Make things either for the cop write-ups, without adding safety for pedestrians?

Why don’t you go to the source of the problem instead of “band-aid” solutions. Why? Lack of policing. With approximately 35 off the job, there is not enough officers on the street. Speeders know there is little chance of being caught. Speed bumps are causing their own problems. Signage is being hid behind branches (Champlain Drive) and with no notice, the bumps are causing damage to vehicles. Policing has become non-effective due to their time required with homeless, mentally challenged people and drug addiction.

Glad t see, almost wonder why not sooner. Food banks have become part of the nutritional landscape since the late 80s, no end in sight?

Part of the problem is while the coverage is quoted as 100%, actual coverage of costs is not 100% This needs to be corrected, as many cannot afford the expense of what is not covered, my previous quote was not 100%, and I have to save for the difference of more than $200. I’m a Senior making $25,000/year

Southern NB is in a serious drought situation and the proposed Lorneville data Centro is not welcome. I have yet to hear how the owners are going to handle the forever toxic chemicals flushed regularly from the centre. I strongly oppose building a project that takes from our community,

Maybe we should look at Manitoba’s take on these massive AI centres….

I remember underachieving NB literacy scores (reading/math) since i was a kid, ie the 50s of the previous century. Time again NB Ed has gone through periodic revamps, eg the New Math , more critical / creative thinking, then back to basics which usually meant a whole lot more rote style training. When rote education dominated, someone wrote a book called So Little for the Mind, encouraging critical thinking. Wow, we’re still at it!

Are the expected literacy rates for Anglophone and Francophone students the same?

Will the province open the door to mine and develop our natural gas reserves?

Why not just save the money and take over and restart the existing former PotashCorp. Concentrator and mine facility. It barely got rolling when Nutrien mothballed it.

The Government needs direct control over this money sucking machine, people in charge of this need to be dismissed

They should have to show where money is spent.

too much bureaucracy and artistic focus, a business person needs to be put in charge and approve everything by the sounds of it

I believe that one of the responses was to increase the PD days that teachers receive in order for them to be better prepared to increase accomplishment levels? I would suggest that this approach is kicking the can down the road and running away from the problem? Students need more in classroom time with teachers who by the way have at least 5 years post grade twelve and have a degree on how to teach these subjects, if there are any teachers who after receiving formal university level training and certification as teachers then maybe we need to raise the bar a lot higher. The findings of the report are clear we as ax payers and students as recipients are not getting what we paid for! Students < who are our future adults , are not able to fully embrace trades training if they are still struggling with literacy and numeracy issues. our graduation numbers may be up but the that is not how we measure success, competency is the successful outcome we expect not lust less drop outs ! For those who are dinosaurs we know we can confidently say our curriculum of 60 to 70 years ago would produce higher competency levels than are being reported now ?