[Moncton] East (Harrisville, Lewisville, Tankville, Irishtown) Developments

[MonctonRad]

According to Mayor Dawn Arnold's FB page, the province has just announced $2M in funding towards an artificial turf football field at MHS.

[tmacdougall]

"The provincial government is investing $750,000 in the construction of a new turf field next to Moncton High School....Design and engineering work on the $2-million project will begin this year, with the field to be completed in 2019." - Government of New Brunswick

Originally Posted by MonctonRad

According to Mayor Dawn Arnold's FB page, the province has just announced $2M in funding towards an artificial turf football field at MHS.

[MonctonRad]

Originally Posted by tmacdougall

"The provincial government is investing $750,000 in the construction of a new turf field next to Moncton High School....Design and engineering work on the $2-million project will begin this year, with the field to be completed in 2019." - Government of New Brunswick

Indeed. I was going to correct that. $750k from the province with the balance from the city and fundraising.

[MonctonRad]

Rendering of proposed new artificial turf football field at MHS

[BlackYear]

Originally Posted by MonctonRad

Rendering of proposed new artificial turf football field at MHS

No parking!

[L'homard]

LOL I guess you've never seen the parking lot at MHS. They could have put the football field in it.

[josh_cat_eyes]

They could use the down town events centre parking lot?

[micks5477]

Shannex abandons plan for massive seniors complex in Moncton

This seems sad as it would be a top notch facility and learning/training for the gals/guys from the college.

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4698838?__t...mpression=true

[MonctonRad]

Just to be clear, it is the proposed Shannex facility off Mapleton Road which is being abandoned, not their Faubourg du Mascaret project on the UdeM campus. That project is nearing completion........

[habskilla]

Shannex was given the contract to build Faubourg du Mascaret project on the UdeM campus with the understanding that they will build a like number of English units which turned out to be Mapleton Road.

Very tired of all these political "lies". Say what you need to say now to get the project in. Then a year or two down the road renege.

[MonctonRad]

It could be an interesting topic in the upcoming election (the difference in quality and accessibility of Anglophone and Francophone nursing home beds in southeastern NB).

[Scarface]

Anyone read the T&T article on this. It seems Galant is so far removed from the issue he thinks this is the "Best model", and has claimed that the liberals have looked at all options before comming up with there decisions. It seems all the care facilities are loosing out to Shannex. At least the ones the T&T has pointed out. It seems sketchy to me.

[habskilla]

My issue with the Shannex deal is the waiting queue priority. Right now, not an issue. They are plenty of beds. But when a waiting queue starts priority of beds are as follows:
1. Retired UdeM faculty
2. Francophone
3. Anyone else

So that means if you 3 people.
An anglophone who's been in a Moncton long care bed for 6 months.
A retired professor currently living at home, but wants to move into the nursing home.
A francophone who has been in GD hospital for a week.

Guess who doesn't get a bed? Yes, the anglophone.

**********THIS IS NOT a french vs english RANT************
This is only about fairness.

Our province does not have the money to fund the Shannex deals. At the end of the day, we all lose out.

[MonctonRad]

Originally Posted by habskilla

So that means if you 3 people.
An anglophone who's been in a Moncton long care bed for 6 months.
A retired professor currently living at home, but wants to move into the nursing home.
A francophone who has been in GD hospital for a week.

Guess who doesn't get a bed? Yes, the anglophone.

**********THIS IS NOT a french vs english RANT************
This is only about fairness.

You make a very good point and you are undoubtedly correct in your analysis.

- the retired UdeM faculty member can basically enter the Faubourg du Mascaret ad lib (pretty much any time he/she wants as long as there is a bed available).

- francophones have the next priority, which means that their waiting list will be relatively short, and this will do a lot to decompress the "bed blocker" problem at the GDH.

- anglophones will only get access to the Faubourg if there are no francophones in the queue (i.e. never). As such the bed blocker problem at the Moncton Hospital will continue to cripple our ability to provide proper and timely care to our patient population. TMH has about 400 beds, and routinely over 100 of those beds are out of commission because of bed blockers. Because of this the hospital frequently runs in crisis mode, with an overcrowded ER, ambulances on delayed offload and patients bedded down in hospital corridors. Surgeries are frequently cancelled and care is more rushed than it should be when it is provided. This is in order to discharge patients as soon as possible to clear up the backlog (occasionally before the patient should be discharged).

[Scarface]

Originally Posted by habskilla

My issue with the Shannex deal is the waiting queue priority. Right now, not an issue. They are plenty of beds. But when a waiting queue starts priority of beds are as follows:
1. Retired UdeM faculty
2. Francophone
3. Anyone else

So that means if you 3 people.
An anglophone who's been in a Moncton long care bed for 6 months.
A retired professor currently living at home, but wants to move into the nursing home.
A francophone who has been in GD hospital for a week.

Guess who doesn't get a bed? Yes, the anglophone.

**********THIS IS NOT a french vs english RANT************
This is only about fairness.

Our province does not have the money to fund the Shannex deals. At the end of the day, we all lose out.

Originally Posted by MonctonRad

You make a very good point and you are undoubtedly correct in your analysis.

- the retired UdeM faculty member can basically enter the Faubourg du Mascaret ad lib (pretty much any time he/she wants as long as there is a bed available).

- francophones have the next priority, which means that their waiting list will be relatively short, and this will do a lot to decompress the "bed blocker" problem at the GDH.

- anglophones will only get access to the Faubourg if there are no francophones in the queue (i.e. never). As such the bed blocker problem at the Moncton Hospital will continue to cripple our ability to provide proper and timely care to our patient population. TMH has about 400 beds, and routinely over 100 of those beds are out of commission because of bed blockers. Because of this the hospital frequently runs in crisis mode, with an overcrowded ER, ambulances on delayed offload and patients bedded down in hospital corridors. Surgeries are frequently cancelled and care is more rushed than it should be when it is provided. This is in order to discharge patients as soon as possible to clear up the backlog (occasionally before the patient should be discharged).

I completly agree. The reason I said it was suspicious that it's seems to always be Shannex who wins contracts is that If they would have allowed not for profit groups instead of the Shannex Group they could have had both Care facilities, and could have hopefully fixed the issues at both hospitals, or at least put some slack into the issue.

The Liberals are not worried about the elderly, and I do not believe they looked at every option.

[Sunnybrae]

To be honest, I'm fairly ignorant about this but I didn't even realize nursing homes were language based. So does a senior have to take a test before they are admitted on there language skills?

[MonctonRad]

Originally Posted by Sunnybrae

To be honest, I'm fairly ignorant about this but I didn't even realize nursing homes were language based. So does a senior have to take a test before they are admitted on there language skills?

Nursing homes in general are not language based, but the Shannex Faubourg de Mascaret is an exception.

It is a partnership with UdeM, located on the UdeM campus, using the premise (excuse) that students of the various francophone health programs at the university will conduct some of their clinical training in the facility. As such, the language of administration and operation at the Faubourg will be French, and all programming will be French only. Patient interactions will be French first.

Honestly a unilingual Anglophone in such an environment would have a very lonely existence.

The legality of the language policy at the Faubourg is borderline at best, but they were able to circumvent provincial rules by their partnership with the university. This was very clever on the part of the nationalists at the university, their partners in the Acadian Society and their friends in the provincial government.

It would have been OK if Shannex had constructed the English nursing home complex off of Mapleton, but as it stands now, the situation stinks to high heaven..........

[Sunnybrae]

Originally Posted by MonctonRad

Nursing homes in general are not language based, but the Shannex Faubourg de Mascaret is an exception.

It is a partnership with UdeM, located on the UdeM campus, using the premise (excuse) that students of the various francophone health programs at the university will conduct some of their clinical training in the facility. As such, the language of administration and operation at the Faubourg will be French, and all programming will be French only. Patient interactions will be French first.

Honestly a unilingual Anglophone in such an environment would have a very lonely existence.

The legality of the language policy at the Faubourg is borderline at best, but they were able to circumvent provincial rules by their partnership with the university. This was very clever on the part of the nationalists at the university, their partners in the Acadian Society and their friends in the provincial government.

It would have been OK if Shannex had constructed the English nursing home complex off of Mapleton, but as it stands now, the situation stinks to high heaven..........

Ah, ok I didn't realize this was a special case.

[benvui]

The lot on the corner of Elmwood and the TCH across from the Dairy Queen that was purchased not long ago has been cleared behind the house. The house is still standing so I don't think they will be building anything soon, but there is activity on the property. No word as to what will be going in yet though.

[Scarface]

Originally Posted by benvui

The lot on the corner of Elmwood and the TCH across from the Dairy Queen that was purchased not long ago has been cleared behind the house. The house is still standing so I don't think they will be building anything soon, but there is activity on the property. No word as to what will be going in yet though.

I could personally see them copy 278 Chemin McLaughlin Rd. or 444 Chemin McLaughlin Rd. less the Daycare.