Twice a day the Petitcodiac changes its mind and the whole river runs backwards — a wall of chocolate-brown water rolling upstream while a crowd at Bore Park sips coffee and watches it happen. That's the kind of town this is, and that's about when we'll be ready.
The Monctonite is your seat for Greater Moncton, Dieppe, and Riverview — the three communities that pretend they're separate right up until it's hockey night at the Avenir Centre. The patio that just opened on Main Street, the Saturday haul from the Marché de Dieppe, which brewery on the strip is actually worth the cab home, and whether that food truck on the Riverfront Trail is back for the season.
We'll send you up Magnetic Hill for the summer concerts and the famous roll-uphill trick, into the Capitol Theatre for the Frye Festival, and toward the late plate at Tide & Boar when half of downtown has already called it a night. Casino weekends and HubCap Comedy, the trails at Centennial Park, a Wildcats game, a drive out toward the Northumberland Strait — if it's worth leaving the house for, it's on our list.
Hub City has done this before: burned down, washed out, written off, and back on its feet every single time. Resurgo — we rise again. The Monctonite is almost here, in English and en français, with the whole tri-community in tow. Grab a spot on the bank; the wave's nearly in.