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Old Posted Nov 21, 2017, 5:56 PM
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Originally Posted by MonctonRad View Post
In greater Moncton for sure, and up into Kent County too. I'm of course less certain what happens in the far north of the province, but one of the segments on the more folksy "Live at Five" part of the CTV News broadcast is when they announce significant milestones like wedding anniversaries (yes they do that here), and you would be surprised how often they will announce a 50th wedding anniversary for Alcide and Clothilde from Tabusintac (or such)......
Same. Even CBC does It, but NTV is most infamously bad at it:

http://ntv.ca/features/birthdays/

The best part is the extremely obvious divide among the elderly as to who is from a larger town and who is from an outport.
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