(NB-RCMP-Shooting-Investigation)
R-C-M-P in New Brunswick are asking the province’s police watchdog to investigate a shooting incident involving officers in Elsipogtog (ell-see-book-TOOK’) that left an Indigenous man dead.
Police say officers responded to a report late Sunday evening of a man in mental distress with a weapon in a home.
Mounties say the man refused to drop his weapon and would not co-operate with police, and an officer shot their gun at the man, who later died in hospital.
Police don’t detail what happened before the officer fired at the man.
(The Canadian Press)
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(NB-Mountie-Charged)
A Mountie in New Brunswick has been charged with aggravated assault following an investigation into an arrest in June.
The Serious Incident Response Team, which is responsible for investigating police-related violence, announced the charge against Corporal Andrew Whiteway.
The officer is accused of striking a woman in the face during an arrest near Woodstock on June 13th.
The police oversight agency says police were called to a family disturbance in Richmond Corner, where an individual sustained a serious injury, but no other details were released.
(CBC News)
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(NS-Rent-Cap-Criticism)
Housing advocates and opposition parties say a loophole in Nova Scotia’s rental housing rules is making the provincial government’s proposed rent cap essentially useless.
Tim Allenby — of the housing advocacy group ACORN — says the province’s efforts to cap rents will not help renters so long as fixed-term leases are allowed.
A fixed-term lease — unlike a periodic lease — has a set start and end date and is not extended beyond the fixed period of time without the signing of a new lease.
The provincial rent cap covers periodic lease renewals and situations where a landlord allows someone on a fixed-term lease to sign a new agreement for the same unit — but it does not apply to leases signed with new tenants.
Allenby says this encourages landlords not to re-sign with a tenant and to instead rent to someone new so they can increase the rent well beyond the cap.
(The Canadian Press)
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(PEI-Arson-Arrest)
A P-E-I man has been arrested after a third suspicious fire in the Chepstow area in five weeks.
R-C-M-P say the 26-year-old is charged with arson in connection with the string of fires.
They say the arrest Saturday came after police responded to an early morning 9-1-1 call about structure fire on Route 16.
The man was arrested at the scene. (The Canadian Press)
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(NL-Oldest-Animal-Fossil )
Researchers from Memorial University say ancient fossils found in Newfoundland belong to a newly discovered species of jellyfish.
A 565-million-year-old fossil dug up on the Bonavista Peninsula in 2015 is the earliest known record of an animal with muscle tissue, called Haootia quadriformis.
The researchers say in a paper published in the peer-reviewed journal Life they have since documented several new fossils preserving muscle tissue.
They say the four-armed creatures are a newly discovered jellyfish species called Mamsetia manunis, adding the fossils represent a leap forward in our understanding of early life. (The Canadian Press)
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(NS-Hospital-Donation)
The largest children’s hospital in Atlantic Canada has received a huge donation.
The 25-million-dollar donation to the I-W-K Health Centre in Halifax came from Myron and Berna Garron.
Myron Garron, who is originally from Westport, Nova Scotia, made a fortune in the automotive parts business in Ontario.
The donation will be used to improve the care provided to those with mental health challenges and addictions.
(The Canadian Press)
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(PEI-Child-and-Youth-Act)
P-E-I’s revised Child, Youth and Family Services Act is now in effect.
Among the numerous changes, it reduces the length of time a child can be in the temporary care of the Director of Child Protection.
In addition, youths aging out of care will be able to access supports until the age of 25, rather than the current level of 21.
The legislation passed last fall.
(The Canadian Press)
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(Atlantic Update by The Canadian Press)
