Lesson Learned for Ward 3 Gen Xer Town Councillor Josh Goguen? I doubt it...

The utter stupidity of running a private Facebook group WHILE HOLDING PUBLIC OFFICE.. ?

I can't even with these sort of people.. 

Josh is shown below in his "Tantramar" brand red shirt Josh Goguen.. read more here at "New Wark Times" article by Bruce Wark: Tantramar council dismisses complaint over ‘hostile’ Facebook posts |

Elections NB - Unofficial list of candidates & plebiscites

“I do feel bad for the person who filed the complaint that they were suffering,” Mayor Black said

“That is absolutely not acceptable and I would call on the community to be nice to each other,” he added.

“Social media gives people the opportunity to say whatever they want, anytime they want, and it’s hugely problematic,” the mayor said.

“I would say to the community, to Tantramar residents, to just be nicer, be better to people and know that the words that you say have a huge impact on people’s lives.”

Josh Goguen is competing with Andrew Black for one of four Ward 3 Town Councillor positions in this election.

Will Josh Goguen be re-elected to continue to serve and collect his $2,000 per month?

Time will tell.. Josh Goguen is on LinkedIn:

Well I can add town councilor to my skills. Looking forward to being part of the first council for the newly created Town of Tantramar. The government amalgamated the towns of Sackville and… | Josh Goguen

List of candidates found here for Tantramar:

Elections NB - Unofficial list of candidates & plebiscites

Bruce Wark's Latest Article on Tantramar Elections - "Bruno" Weighs In

 Read at the website warktimes.com... here:

Tantramar candidates call for town to restore contact info. on new website |

for contact info for candidates in today's election, check here:

Elections NB - Unofficial list of candidates & plebiscites

Some commentary found at the Bruce Wark article here:

"Bruno says:

May 6, 2026 at 7:09 am

Bruce, do you ever look in the mirror yourself and wonder “am I part of the problem here?” Council faces more harassment and abuse than ever before- your little blog contributes to that. I don’t blame them one bit for making it harder for people to contact them. Shame on you! You’re part of the problem!"

"Laura Landon says:

May 6, 2026 at 11:13 am

Bruno, I’d say this is a classic case of blaming or “shooting” the messenger. Bruce provides solid, journalistically sound, relevant news coverage on his website. He does not control what people say about the news on various social media sites (and I agree with you that people say a lot of garbage in various FB comments).

It’s true that if we didn’t have Bruce’s reporting, we wouldn’t have news that sometimes looks bad on Town Council or administration (e.g., the fire dept. problems). But not reporting on local issues doesn’t make the issues go away.

Good journalism shines a light on issues that those in public office would often prefer remain out of the public eye. If you can point to any misinformation or inaccuracies in Bruce’s reporting, please do. But let’s not blame journalists and local news reporting for (often anonymous) FB trolls who spread misinformation or people who behave rudely."

"Bruno says:

May 7, 2026 at 7:36 pm

Bruce doesn’t have an editor. He’s not a reporter. He desperately needs an editor to remind him to at least try to accurately represent the facts from time to time."

"Laura Landon says:

May 8, 2026 at 7:53 am

Again, I would ask you for some examples from Bruce’s articles to back up your assertion.

By credentials alone, Bruce is a respected journalist (professor emeritus of journalism from University of King’s College; retired CBC reporter and editor where he produced The House, World at Six, World Report, and Sunday Magazine, and served as national reporter for the Maritimes & Queen’s Park reporter in Ontario; columnist at the Halifax Daily News & the Coast; journalist at 3 private radio stations before CBC. If that’s not a reporter, I don’t know what is.)

All journalists’ best editors are the public: If reporters misrepresent things and get facts wrong, they lose public trust and are no longer a credible source of news. Bruce is always quick to respond and correct when he gets anything wrong, like any respectable news outlet.

Finally, as Bruce’s spouse and a former journalist at the Ottawa Citizen & editing instructor myself (now a research librarian), I play an unofficial role as his editor! I don’t oversee everything he writes, but I do provide a second set of eyes and advice when I think a story should have a different focus or could use some tweaking. Again, if you see mistakes, please let Bruce know."

Independent journalist Bruce Wark on NB Power's plans a for gas-fire power plant in Tantramar - N.B. Media Co-Op

Sep 4, 2025 NEW BRUNSWICK

In this wide-ranging interview, the NB Media Co-op speaks to independent journalist Bruce Wark about NB Power's controversial plans for a gas-fired plant that would be located about 20 kilometres north of Sackville. He's been writing about issues related to the contentious facility on his website, the New Wark Times. Check it out at warktimes.com.

Bruce Wark's work found at this link:

AWI says NB Power is wrong: There are pileated woodpeckers on proposed gas plant site |

Bruce Wark Reported on Stolen Winston Churchill & Chateau Laurier Story [warktimes.com]

 Read Bruce Wark's "Roaring Lion" story here:

Differing local views on the ‘Roaring Lion’ thief’s two-year prison sentence |

Photography above:  Tantramar's long time town councillor Bruce Phinney was recently photographed visiting at Ottawa's Chateau Laurier with the Churchill photograph.

more here:  Thief of iconic Winston Churchill portrait sentenced to two years in jail

“This Was Not Just a Theft. It Was a Cultural Violation.”

Justice Wadden noted that Karsh’s photograph transcended its material value.

source:

Ottawa Man Sentenced in Theft of Iconic Winston Churchill Portrait from Château Laurier - NetNewsLedger

Tantramar council won’t be adding public question periods anytime soon [ Warktimes.com article ]

 

At this article link by Bruce Wark:

Tantramar council won’t be adding public question periods anytime soon | (warktimes.com)

Warktimes.com does an important job in the region and has an active comments section.

At some point Bruce may write about the Tantramar Skate Park Project... when he isn't so busy... I reckon... we'll see huh?

Occasionally, commentary is not published or it is edited... why?  Does censorship interfere with progress and is it something we should be concerned with in 2023?

Local News With Bruce Wark at Wark Times...

 At this link:

June 27 set for public hearing on 6-storey Lafford apartment building | (warktimes.com)

Bruce Wark's Latest Piece Focussed on Bonnie Swift for Mayor's Twitter

 Bruce Wark @ Warktimes.com is the gift that keeps on giving around here...

Wark has an agenda.. he is part of the local clique... his work is to boldly publish what he has been told to publish by the establishment .. if he removes comments and edits them is he really trustworthy?

More here:

UPDATED: Tantramar Mayoralty candidate Bonnie Swift deletes hundreds of right-wing tweets | (warktimes.com)

See Bonne Swift's Mayor of Tantramar Facebook page here:  Bonnie Swift for Mayor | Sackville NB (facebook.com)

Will the shitstorm incited by Bruce Wark's article interfere with her run for Mayor? Time will tell.

Bonnie Swift for Mayor

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On another note the attacks have been kind of backfiring. I got this today form a young man. "I'm getting you votes. I'll get you at least 40 or 50 people that have never voted before to vote for you. I am sick of the attack mobs."

Tantramarshire has a soundcloud ... did you know?

 A few audio tracks so far including this one that discusses corruption, blacklisting, abuse, and governments, judges, lawyers, targetting... 

Greg Hallett with Dr. Preston James a revealing 2016 interview http://kingjohnthethird.uk website 

-- listen at this link:

Veterans Today Dr Preston James with Greg Hallett June 2016 by Tantramarshire (soundcloud.com)

Speaking of government corruption ... Bruce Wark reports locally on the latest shenanigans... 

It seems there are some who feel the need to abolish the bloated SERSC troughers.... read here:

New Town of Tantramar will pay for more regional services | (warktimes.com)

"But one thing is clear: The Southeast Regional Service Commission (SERSC), which currently provides land use planning and garbage disposal services to cities, towns and villages in Westmorland and Albert counties, is gearing up for a major expansion.

During her presentation to Sackville town council this week, Stephanie Thorne, the Commission’s chief financial officer, said SERSC has drafted a $26.2 million budget for next year — a 17% increase to help provide five additional services that the Town of Tantramar and other municipalities will pay for.

The services include regional transportation; regional social and community development; regional sport, recreation and cultural infrastructure; regional economic development and regional tourism.

Stephanie Thorne addressing Sackville Town Council on Tuesday

Thorne said SERSC plans to hire a director for each of the five new services at annual salaries of $110,000. Regional social and community development will also need two co-ordinators at $90,000 salaries while economic development will be hiring a specialist at an unspecified salary.

According to the draft budget, existing services — land use planning and solid waste disposal — are projected to cost $24.1 million next year, a 10.7% increase. Tantramar’s share will be just over $555 thousand.

The five new services are initially expected to cost about $1.5 million with Tantramar paying just over $58 thousand."

Latest with local journalist Bruce Wark @ Warktimes.com

 

read at this link:

Expert calls recommendations to raise Fundy dykes ‘disheartening’ | (warktimes.com)

Car Plate Spotted in Tantramarshire... Wark Times on Protests Organized by Carol Cooke

 

Carol Cooke moved to town from Ontario a few years ago, she organized group to gather, read here:

Sackville residents protest against forced amalgamation: ‘This is not democratic, this is authoritarian’ | (warktimes.com)

Updated: Les Hicks commentary about Sackville Uncensored at Wark Times - Bruce Wark's website & Rima Azar and more....

[ Originally published:  2/27/2021 ]

https://www.facebook.com/warktimes/

Accredited journalist Bruce Wark, formerly with the CBC

and a past teacher of journalism at Halifax's prestigious 

King's University College,

Bruce Wark 

works hard to report on local news and issues.

I had asked Bruce Wark to report on King John III Joseph Gregory Hallett's

Common Law Court Great Britain & International

claim for Kingship http://kingjohnthethird.uk 

but so far Bruce Wark has failed to do so..... why?

I'm sure he is a nice man as I met him briefly on the street one day 

and was able to have a pleasant chat with him about my interests in town including

promoting a great new concrete skatepark here since 2013.. he hasn't covered that story yet.

His website sees a lot of comments and traffic it would appear at this time.

[screen grab from youtube]

Report from Bruce on the $2Million pond dig 

by the technocrats/climate hysterics in the 'management' 

at this link - click here

I'd left him a comment:

Sackville Uncensored says:

Your comment is awaiting moderation. 

May 1, 2019 at 10:59 am

All that I thought of when I heard about that new expense of $400K for soil contamination was ‘well there goes more money not being spent on a great concrete skatepark build’ again .. that’s what I told Bruce Phinney when we chatted about this issue recently as well.

Please help to boost exposure to the work of Bruce Wark, indie journalist

based in Sackville NB Canada.. thanks.

Of note, however Wark has been caught editing comments

 for some reason...

strange but true.... he has connections with the NB Media Coop folks 

who publish his articles at their site as well ..

I've been wondering if Bruce Wark is an embedded agent

in our town and related to intelligence asset Wesley Wark

but Bruce won't say... his lips are sealed...

@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

 [a personal favourite of mine]

I don't watch TV or pay much attention to CBC..... "Sackville Uncensored" exists entirely because of censorship in Sackville NB at the management levels both at Mount Allison University & Town of Sackville Facebook pages back in 2015 which apparently got me branded a 'low class, unimportant, trouble-maker' according to an undisclosed source [2019].  Asking questions is my forte.... but apparently here that's a no-no.

the blog only exists because of intolerance of DIVERSITY OF OPINIONS AND IDEAS.. its shocking how badly the intelligensia view diversity of ideas and expression of opinion -- its why I would warn anyone away from attending at mta.ca at this point in time ... and being branded as trouble-maker is what happens to so many of us who do not embrace the Liberal government's unprecedented MASS IMMIGRATION policy as such a great idea for the health and welfare of those people already living here who are struggling to find affordable housing, living wage jobs and some stability and financial security in their lives:

nor think 'climate change' is a big concern owing to the fact that the people promoting it the most loudly [Al Gore, Liz May, Greta Thunberg and David Suzuki, to name a few] are not even "climate scientists" but propagandists and fear-mongers.

As for the culture of suppressing free speech its a huge concern across all Canadian university campuses at this point.. not just Mount Allison University .. which is why I promote SAFS Society for Academic Freedom & Scholarship website http://safs.ca ...

Apparently, having an opinion other than the deemed acceptable opinion makes you a 'right winger' in the mind of Les Hicks . . . that's amusing because anyone reading this blog for any length of time knows its a blog geared to --

"anti - communitarian thinking" ...

....  which is not right wing and not left wing thinking but anti-globalist anti-Agenda 2030 anti-United Nations anti-Sustainable Development anti-Global Governance anti-groupthink.... ya got it?

Les Hicks was probably triggered by unfamiliar content so that's good... its good to make people think and question their opinions.  We need more minds to be stretched and narrative-questioning around this university town - perhaps turn off your steady stream of CBC-government funded propaganda for a while....it might help you cope.

Les Hicks wrote at Bruce Wark's website his impressions which were very swiftly formed after appraising the content of this blog over 

at http://warktimes.com comments' section.

If Les does leave comments at this blog as Anonymous I wouldn't be surprised at all....

"Les Hicks says:

April 28, 2019 at 6:03 pm

Just checked out “Sackville Uncensored’s” blog. Wonderful, just what the world needs – another right-winger spouting off against people whose skin isn’t as white as theirs and also spreading the typical propaganda and misinformation about the serious problem of human-triggered climate change. What a true humanitarian you are. If immigrants of non-European origin coming to our country bother you so much, perhaps you should consider moving to Trumpland, where someone with your insights and values would be welcomed with open arms by the “fine” folks supporting The Donald."

My advice:

Stay classy Les.. you cannot imagine the number of people who actually don't share your opinions...  can ya? As they say opinions are like A--holes or belly buttons .. everyone has one.

Its a small quaint old eastcoast town with lots of great people - please refrain from being abusive.. and obnoxiously verbose and condescending towards others online and in real life.

Came across an article that was posted by Demian Hammock the comments section of Bruce Wark's website that I think is worth re-posting/sharing here:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/notion-virtue-dialogues-plato-moral-knowledge-demian-hammock/

As for Rima Azar's current shitstorm please see her blog here:

https://bambisafkar.ca/index.php/2020/06/15/even-when-fighting-the-noble-anti-racism-cause-it-is-sad-to-see-nb-youth-being-radicalized/

I wish her well... Lebanon was the Paris of the middle east .. I bet she misses her home nation and culture... Canada is becoming an increasingly fractured and intolerant society.  If only those immature and intellectually lazy students attacking her from afar actually sat down for a coffee to talk to her and learn some things... that's the way of a true academic... listening to different ideas and discussing them.. not having tantrums.. and hissy fits like little children.  Go in peace..

https://www.mta.ca/Community/Bios/Rima_Azar/Rima_Azar/

As for local and frequent commenter at Warktimes.com comments section " Les Hicks " ... he publically appeared in Town Hall and sounded off about cats around here... read this link:

Sackville town staff weighing pros & cons of licensing cats | (warktimes.com)

Not sure what to make of this character at this point... as much as grumpy old men are annoying I tend to be more focussed on and bothered by social engineers on the payroll and grifters/moochers -- those kind of people are also very active in this town... they greedily shake the Town's free money tree [ #gibsmedat ] grabbing for cash for themselves and I can't help but wonder how many taxpayers also resent this 'grifting' from the piggy bank here... wouldn't we all love to be 'taxed less'...?

Perhaps "Hardscrabble Press" should rebrand itself to "Soft Grifting Press"?

What is a good way to promote freedom of the press in Sackville? More voices, not less ...

 

An accredited journalist Bruce Wark reports on the goings on at their multi-million dollar 'palace' they call Town Hall... ....where highly paid office minions pretend to 'act for the citizens and the greater good'.. *cough*

Thanks Bruce Wark.. keeping their toesies to the fire by highlighting their weaknesses surrounding freedom of speech, press, expression... all good...

and, yeah, we see you too Jamie, achtung baby...

photo of the Jamie CAO from Bruce's website

Follow Bruce at his Facebook page:

New Wark Times - Home | Facebook

“If we get somebody who thinks they are the press and they could have a belief system that is fundamentally different to our strategic plan and our community beliefs, we don’t want to be treating them the same as we’re treating the CBC or CHMA or the Times & Transcript.”

Later, during the public question period, Burke suggested the bylaw definition of “press” would give council more control.

“If there was an individual, maybe it’s a blogger who’s using racist, sexist and other commentary as part of the regular reporting, how do we have the ability to push back a little bit?” he asked.

“Or if somebody wasn’t showing professionalism or respect with the way our meetings are conducted or how they’re respecting individual staff members or members of council.”

Full article at this link:

Sackville councillors debate who should be recognized as a journalist covering town council | (warktimes.com)

Blogger exists here solely due to censorship.  Big Tech has killed all social media including Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Vimeo, Spreaker, and LinkedIn ... so who is in charge here? Technocrats.

[blog views last month 18,890 -- on this 'low class unimportant troublemaker's blogger]

Jamie Burke CAO celebrates vaccination clinic and testing and pays for this sign out of the Town's budget.... perhaps the obsession with signage signals a deeper problem he has psychologically?

Meanwhile, it was nice to [finally] see their metal 'stop' signs and 'do not enter' signs removed from the Town's waterfowl park.  Good move big spenders.

#Smash technocracy... recognize it.. expose it... reject it.  That is all.  Their totalitarian tip-toe moves are disgusting and obscene in a civilized society that seeks peace and freedom.

New tab (technocracy.news)

www.technocracy.news/is-canada-re-embracing-historic-technocracy/

Bruce Wark's " Wark Times " a local journalist's efforts to inform in a university town

 

Read the latest at this link:

Premier’s Task Force calls for improving status & economic security of New Brunswick artists | (warktimes.com)

Bruce's work gets re-shared at NB Media Co-op

[useful work for the technocracy's minions in NB]

 "Journalism possesses in itself the potentiality of becoming one of the most frightful monstrosities and delusions that have ever cursed mankind. This horrible transformation will occur at the exact instant at which journalists realize that they can become an aristocracy." - G.K. Chesterton