Thumbs up to the organizers, the speakers, the weather, and all the kids.

Thumbs down to the Liberals and Kelly Lamrock's tailor.

Early this week I sat down for a coffee at the Second Cup with well known New Brunswick blogger, political activist and pain in the neck Charles LeBlanc. I arrived early and waited with my camera concealed below the table. As Charles approached I snapped the photo above. The Blogger has been blogged!!!

I met Charles a few years ago through my autism advocacy. Charles was already known as an ADHD activist who brought to public attention the issue of over prescription of Ritalin for New Brunswick school students. He also pitched in on behalf of autism, attending rallies, putting up posters and helping with our Christmas parade float on one cold, wet, windy day in Fredericton. His blogging is often over the top in style and substance and has been known to infuriate some. But Charles also raises issues that the main stream media are reluctant to feature. As CBC reporter Robert Jones pointed out in a segment which aired the night before commencement of Charles's trial on obstruction of justice charges arising out of the Atlantica conference protest, Charles blog site features pictures of the homeless and disadvantaged and brings their issues to public attention. Friends of mine in government tell me that many politicians and civil servants read Charles' blog site regularly. In Charles the poor and disadvantaged in New Brunswick have a voice by which they can speak to power and have their issues heard.

Well done Charles. Keep up the good work.

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A wonderful march and rally in F'ton today. Congratulations to all who worked so hard to pull things together in such a short time. It was exciting to be together with our students and colleagues from UdeMCE, in particular. What a vibrant campus that must be to have such an energetic group representing them.

Estimates range from the proverbial "hundreds" to 1,500, which is closer to the truth. Television coverage was pretty good this evening, too.

Lots of photos are surfacing and more, no doubt, will follow. Here are some to start you off: Charles LeBlanc has a very cool series taken at the march, and there are already lots on Facebook, here and here.

Update: Paul Saulnier has some cool photos in his post, and there are a pile of photos linked from the UNBSJ Education Society blog. Brenna Clark Gray raises a little hell in her video, on Facebook.