Barbara Simpson
@JournoBarb
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Provincial reporter, @TJProvincial | bsimpson(at)postmedia(dot)com
Saint John, N.B.
Joined March 2010
Today I interviewed someone with the best homemade sign in his office: "Hustle in silence. Let your success make noise." #WordsToLiveBy
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The #BlueJays are like Canadian mosquitoes at dusk – they just won’t go away. How a low-strikeout, high contact approach helped them to the #WorldSeries
https://t.co/KB9ZTLCJ5M
theglobeandmail.com
Hitting coach David Popkins has his creative fingerprints all over the Jays’ revival of contact hitting
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NEW: As Saint John council revisits its red-zone plan tonight and considers alternative options, I had a look at police-reported call for service and crime data. Much of the recent uproar over homelessness has centered around public safety concerns.
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NEW from me... New Brunswicker stopped, handcuffed at U.S. border for travelling with ‘too much clothes’ "I was really upset and I was just crying the whole time" https://t.co/zESmpfDxtK
#NB
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Good read here from my colleague John Chilibeck.
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Mental health nurse loses licence after admitting to sexually abusing patient https://t.co/96xJoTgd3A
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EXCLUSIVE: Puppies secretly tested and killed at Ontario hospital for human heart research https://t.co/nzakvRmoN3
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Great reporting here from @andrewwaugh13.
New from me … Study offered a solution to N.B.'s hospital woes. Is it being used?
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NEW: Anglophone schools were 'at risk' of losing teachers to the francophone system unless calendar changes were made, according to Premier Susan Holt.
Anglophone schools ‘at risk’ of losing teachers without calendar changes: premier https://t.co/kRFkYUu4BZ
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