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Why is Saint John City Hall so quiet this week?

Your City Hall is awfully quiet this week

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

Well, if you've been listening this week, you know what the big story out of Saint John City Hall has been, right? Or, maybe I should say, what the *lack* of a story has been. It's been quieter than the Reversing Falls at slack tide, I'll tell you what.

### The Great Silence

Usually, we get a steady stream of updates, a new bit of data, something for us to chew on. Not this week.

* No new civic data came through the usual channels.

* The open data portal's been… well, it's been a bit of a ghost town.

* Councillor conversations have been sparse, even for a holiday-adjacent week.

It's left us all wondering what's brewing behind those doors down on Charlotte Street, or if everyone's just taken a long weekend early. It’s certainly got people on the waterfront talking, right? Sometimes, no news is… well, it's just no news, and that’s a story in itself when it comes to City Hall.

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

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