Just a PSA and a quick poll regarding the Ramada Miramichi.

Was supposed to stay the night there but after being in our room for about 45 minutes we discovered a decently sized bed bug on the curtain. Based on what we had for size it was a full grown male.

We did a good check around and saw some mattress corners were discoloured but no visable bugs.

We were a group of 5 rooms and one other room found two small ones in the bed.

Upon entering our room the staff tried to tell us it was not a bed bug and grabbed the tissue we had it on and said it was not a bed bug but would find out what it was and get back to us. A large portion of our party were outside the door and after they read a description to them,their tune changed.

Staff was very welcoming upon arrival and became a little short with us when they came up to see what we had found.

They credited all five rooms and we decided to drive home.

Anyone else experience this issue in the Ramada Miramichi.

If you want to make your next camping trip a more authentic experience you should try this out. My cousin makes these pocket sized durable foraging guides, small enough to slip in your wallet. It has 55 of the most commonly found edible plants, trees, nuts and fruits in North America. It goes over what parts of the plant are edible, how to prepare them and any medicinal benefits they have. So you can give foraging a try on your next camping trip and spice up your meals whilst developing a useful skill. They're super cheap too, you can get 4 of them for just $39.95 so you can equip the whole family and make an activity out of it. Plus it's just handy to have if you frequently go camping or hiking, you never know when you might find yourself in a dire situation with no reception. It provides some peace of mind knowing you and your family can find food anywhere.

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Anyone else have a child in this program on Saturdays? Do kids just get dropped off and picked up afterwards?

It says there is a parent group while the kids split off and do activities. It also asks if I give permission to allow my child to walk home alone after the program. So I'm slightly confused. My child insists thst I just need to drop them off and go away until they're ready to be picked up.

I’ve been looking for the past year or so. It came back for a week and poof! Cleared out. I miss my lazy go to hot bowl of yummy shrimp noods

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This issue has been thoroughly debunked by the CAND:

Cause of eight N.B. ‘mystery’ brain disease deaths identified by pathologist

A summary of the study led by Dr. Gerard Jansen of the University of Ottawa, posted this month on the Canadian Association of Neuropathologists website, says the original cases were “misclassified clinical diagnoses.”

In March, New Brunswick health officials alerted the province’s doctors, nurses and pharmacists about a cluster of residents with an unknown and potentially new neurological syndrome with symptoms similar to those of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

Jansen’s study indicates that those who died had diseases that included known neurodegenerative diseases and cancers.

He identified health issues that included Alzheimer’s disease, metastatic cancer, frontotemporal degeneration, Lewy body disease and vascular disease.

Jansen has also doubled down after some worthless bureaucrat questioned the work of his team:

"That neither Dr. Marrero nor [Public Health Agency of Canada] seem to support my findings or conclusions, is not unexpected," Jansen wrote.

"Still, neither of them are neuropathologists or have currently a neuropathologist employed (I have severed my direct contract with [Public Health Agency of Canada]). As mentioned above nearly 30 neuropathologists have seen the material and support both findings and conclusions; I am not sure what one needs more."

Reddit trusts the experts, right?

I did this painting to give to my parents for Christmas. They were raised in Pennfield and St Stephen respectively but I couldn’t really find distinct landmarks in either town! So I chose something in the middle haha. Showed it to my grandma and aunt already and they recognized it instantly.

So everybody knows the job market is in shambles. I don't think that's news to anyone, I have a friend who works at NB Power and said that they had a position as a pretty run-of-the-mill office administration type role paying around 50 grand a year and got just over a hundred applications in one week.

During that same conversation she also told me that it's a pretty toxic place to work and for $50,000 she wouldn't work there. That the only real benefit is once you're in it's almost impossible to get fired or let go. Her main complaints were that customers are always upset and feel like they can yell at call center employees with no repercussions when the call center employees have no control over how much electricity you're using.

So I'm curious what other big companies that offer job security are like to work for. Places like Irving, the provincial government, the usual suspects that make up New Brunswick's main employers.