N.B. news: Cultural festival cancelled [Video]

A New Brunswick cultural festival has been cancelled two days before it was scheduled to start.

On Thursday the Saint John Newcomers Centre announced the International Culturefest in the Valley – which was scheduled to be held in Quispamsis, N.B., on Saturday – was cancelled.

“The guiding principle of all cultural festivals across the country is that participants should not promote or disseminate any overt political or religious information at the festivals to reflect the spirit of inclusivity and diversity,” a Facebook post from the group reads. “Our Code of Conduct and programming for this festival clearly reflects this principle. For all our previous cultural festivals, we have relied on the good faith of participants to respect this principle, and to date, every festival has been successful, and inclusive.

“We are committed to creating spaces where everyone feels welcome and represented. In the interest of maintaining the tradition of inclusive, non-political, and non-religious cultural festivals, we have …