what's trending Mon 14 Feb 2022: Superbowl, Valentine's Storm

#Valentine's

Monday weather... "Snow. Blowing snow over exposed areas late this morning and this afternoon. Amount 10 to 15 cm. Wind northeast 20 km/h gusting to 40 becoming north 30 gusting to 50 this morning. High minus 10. Wind chill near minus 23." Storm Page HERE.

* There are late buses, not closures, in Anglo East and Franc South (https://twitter.com/i/lists/1141630904206417920)

(all schools in Chignecto Central Regional Centre for Education (NS) are closed today February 14, 2022 due to weather conditions... also NSCC Cumberland campus is closed today Feb 14th. That includes Amherst and Springhill locations. Scheduled classes and campus operations will be completed remotely.)

Olympics Stuff...

👉 Moncton's Courtney Sarault skated in the short track team event on Sunday... Team Canada came in fourth in that race... on the men's side Stephen Dubois won bronze for Canada yesterday.

Speed Skating link... (https://olympics.com/beijing-2022/olympic-games/en/results/short-track-speed-skating/results-women-s-3000m-relay-fnl-.htm)

👉 In the new MonoBob event (one-person bobsled)... Canada's Christine de Bruin took bronze yesterday... former Canadian/ new American Kaillie Humphries won gold.

👉 Women's Hockey: Team Canada won their playoff game against the Swiss early this morning.

Olympics Link: (https://olympics.com/en/beijing-2022/)

Super Bowl...
LA Rams beat the Cincinnati Bengals 23 - 20.

Covid numbers from yesterday... 4 deaths reported, people age 70 or older... now we have 116 Covid related hospitalizations (that's down a bit)...

Case count: 266 PCR-test cases and 428 rapid test cases... total active cases is 3573.

Dropping to Covid phase 1 on Friday ...

phase 1 announcement

Q League Hockey... the League released the rest of the schedule for the Maritimes Division (https://cdn.theqmjhl.ca/uploads/2022/02/10100224/Calendrier-Maritimes-v2.pdf)
Wildcats looking forward to fans in the stands...

Cats back to full capacity later this week.

U18 Hockey...

"Friday night in Saint John, the Flyers cam home winners 4-3 in overtime.

Saturday night at the Superior Propane Centre, it was Moncton Flyers 7 and Northern Moose 3.

Sunday at the Superior Propane Centre in a hard fought game, the Flyers defeated the RNS Riverhawks 4-3 in a very entertaining game.

Next stop on the calendar is next weekend in Fredericton at the Willie O’Ree Centre. All six teams in the NB/PEI U18 Hockey League will be taking part in a league showcase.

The schedule for the Flyers as follows:

Sat. Feb. 19

Game time: 11:30am

Moncton Flyers vs Northern Moose

Sun. Feb. 20

Game time: 5:30pm

Moncton Flyers vs Fredericton Caps

Also, Moncton Flyers season has been extended... (nbpeimu18hl.ca/teams/flyers/)

Fredericton protest...

Authorities in Fredericton had checkpoints in place for any big trucks coming into the city over the weekend... protesters began arriving on Friday... police were checking paperwork to make sure big trucks were there for work and not to form a blockade... (via)