Your City Hall has been quiet, and that's a problem.

Good morning from the Fundy shore — the tide's turning, and so is New Brunswick. Let's get into it.

I'll tell you what, it's been a funny old week down at Saint John City Hall. Or rather, it hasn't been funny at all, right? We've been looking for some of that good civic data, the kind that helps us understand what’s going on with our city, and it just hasn’t been there. The Saint John open data portal has been a bit of a ghost town.

It makes you wonder, doesn't it? What’s happening behind those red brick walls when there’s no new information coming out? It feels a bit like trying to navigate the Reversing Falls at high tide without a map. We’ve had some wild weather this week, avec des pluies torrentielles and winds that could blow a cap right off your head, and it feels like City Hall has been weathering its own kind of storm, just a silent one. You expect the public service to, well, *serve* the public with information.

* No new civic data from Saint John’s open portal this week.

* Silence from City Hall on several key fronts.

* The absence of data raises questions about transparency.

This silence, right, it’s not just a minor inconvenience. It means we, the folks who live and work here, aren’t getting the full picture of our city’s operations. And that, in a place like Saint John, where we rely on good information to keep things running smoothly, from the port to our local businesses, is a real problem.

Good morning from the Fundy shore — the tide's turning, and so is New Brunswick. Let's get into it.

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