(NB-Emancipation-Day)
New Brunswick Premier Blaine Huggs says his government is working to improve life for Black people in the province.
He made the comments while commemorating Emancipation day yesterday.
The province has observed Emancipation Day since 2022, as an occasion to acknowledge and celebrate the strength, perseverance and heritage of Black communities.
On August 1st, 1834, the British parliament abolished slavery, freeing about 800-thousand enslaved people from the British colonies, including Canada.
(The Canadian Press)
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(NB-Shooting)
A 30-year-old New Brunswick man faces assault charges after shots were fired toward a house in the small community of East Brighton.
Police say he also allegedly assaulted the homeowner in the July 21st incident before fleeing in a car.
R-C-M-P say they later searched a home in Peel and seized a number of firearms.
During a court appearance last week the man was charged with attempted murder, assault and other offences.
(The Canadian Press)
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(NS-Disabilities-Reforms)
An advocacy group for people with disabilities is once again calling on Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston to ensure a legally mandated plan to improve housing and services meets the milestones of a five year reform plan.
An independent monitor says the province has delayed moving people out of institutions into the community, as mandated in a five-year human rights remedy put in place last year.
Last year, Houston made an historic apology for the mistreatment of people with disabilities, saying “their basic human rights have not been honoured nor respected.”
Vicky Levack, a spokeswoman for the Disability Rights Coalition, says the premier has to return to the values and urgency he so clearly expressed in his historic apology.
(The Canadian Press)
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(NL-Palestine-Email)
Newfoundland and Labrador’s Progressive Conservatives are calling for the removal of Memorial University’s board of regents chair after he forwarded an alumnus’s pro-Palestinian campaign email to her father last month.
Official Opposition member Paul Dinn says Glenn Barnes showed a “severe” lack of professionalism and judgment and he must be held accountable.
Becky Winsor used a link shared by a pro-Palestinian group on campus to send Barnes a pre-written message supporting calls for the school to divest from weapons manufacturers and entities backing Israel in the ongoing war in Gaza.
Dinn says Barnes violated Winsor’s privacy and the board’s code of conduct.
(The Canadian Press)
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(NL-Byelection)
Newfoundland and Labrador is gearing up for another provincial byelection, and once again there is a lack of Liberal red in one candidate’s campaign.
Jamie Korab is running for the provincial Liberals in the Waterford Valley district in St. John’s, but his signs say he’s running for Team Furey.
The same signage focused on Premier Andrew Furey rather than the Liberal Party he leads was used by Fred Hutton to win another byelection earlier this year.
Korab will face off against the N-D-P’s Nicole Boland and the Progressive Conservative Jessie Wilkins when voters head to the polls on August 22nd.
(The Canadian Press)
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(Acadian-Heritage-Month)
Nova Scotia is celebrating more than four centuries of Acadian culture and language over the month of August.
The province’s first Acadian Heritage Month began yesterday with a ceremonial raising of the Acadian flag at the legislature.
Premier Tim Houston and Arthur LeBlanc, the province’s first lieutenant-governor of Acadian descent, were on hand for the ceremony.
The month will see concerts and other gatherings in Acadian communities across the province.
(The Canadian Press)
