How Saint John's remote-control racing enthusiasts put their skills to the test
Veteran racer says buying a full car collection to race in multiple classes can cost up to $10,000.
#racing #hobbies #cost #SaintJohns
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/remote-control-car-race-club-saint-john-9.7060486?cmp=rss
Looking across the old boneyard of Saint Cutbert's at night, towards the adjacent Saint John's Church https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/54990835740/in/photostream/lightbox/
#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #EdinburghByNight #NightPhotography #photography #photographie #SaintCuthberts #SaintJohns #church #eglise #cemetery #LongExposure #Boneyard #Graveyard #architecture
everytime a business participates in one of these media stories, I never patronize that business again. https://youtu.be/t8jkj-wvSUM
#pdx #portland #oregon #pnw #orpol #saintjohns #Stjohns #stj #stormbreaker #uspol #classwar
Residents in Torbay (near St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador 
) didn't know their water was contaminated with PFAS until a chemistry professor showed up.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/pfas-torbay-spread-1.7630010?cmp=mastodon
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Des résidents de Torbay (près de Saint-Jean, Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador ) ne savaient pas que leur eau étaient contaminée avec des PFAS jusqu'à ce qu'un professeur de chimie s'est présenté.
// Article en anglais //
When a Newfoundland professor discovered unsafe forever chemicals in people's drinking water, he suspected it was coming from a federal site. Four months after officials were alerted, residents are still waiting for help.
The new sports facilities built for the Canada Games in St. John’s could help athletes to develop, and help the city and province to host other national sports events.
https://www.cbc.ca/sports/canada-games/canada-games-2025-legacy-st-johns-1.7607114?cmp=mastodon
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Les nouvelles installations sportives construites pour les Jeux du Canada à Saint-Jean pourrait aider les athlètes à se développer, et aider la ville et la province à être hôte d'autres évènements sportifs nationaux.
// Article in English //
Nearly 20,000 Newfoundlanders ordered to evacuate in the past two days, including 5,400 in St. John’s.
https://toronto.citynews.ca/2025/08/13/roughly-20000-people-under-wildfire-evacuation-alert-in-newfoundland-and-labrador/
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Près de 20000 terre-neuviens•nes ordonnés•es d’évacuer dans les deux derniers jours, dont 5400 à Saint-Jean.
// Article en anglais //
#StJohns #SaintJohns #SaintJean #StJean #Newfoundland #TerreNeuve #NLfires #FeuxNL
ST. JOHN’S — Water bombers have slowed the growth of a wildfire threatening Newfoundland and Labrador’s largest city, but the flames are still burning out of control, officials said Wednesday. Meanwhile, the provincial government has introduced a ban on all-terrain vehicles on forested roads as crews grapple with five out-of-control wildfires across the province — […]
Five St. Clare Hospital internal medicine doctors, in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador give mass resignation notice.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/st-clares-internal-medicine-resignation-nlhs-1.7571520
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Cinq médecins en médecine interne de l’hôpital St-Clare, à St-Jean, Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador ont démissionné en groupe.
// Article en anglais //
Whoa got my first #watchDuty alert since installing it earlier this year
Large sections of Rainbow Park — an area built to provide recreation space and a playground for people living in Saint John's south end, an area with high levels of poverty — will be removed to build a new school.
CBC New Brunswick
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