New Brunswick Social Development Minister Cindy Miles has approved the temporary prioritization of patients at Bathurst’s Chaleur Regional Hospital who are waiting for admission to nursing homes.
Miles says the move is “a step” toward easing the strain on the hospital due to a lack of beds.
This change, which can fast-track nursing home admissions, can be enacted for up to 30 days when a hospital is deemed to be in a critical state.
The province enacted the same measure last week at four hospitals: the Saint John Regional Hospital, the Dr. Everett Chalmers Regional Hospital in Fredericton, the Upper River Valley Hospital in Hartland and the Miramichi Regional Hospital. (The Canadian Press)
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Residents living near Rockwood Park in the southern New Brunswick city of Saint John are being advised about a military exercise scheduled for this Friday.
The Department of National Defence says army reservists from New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador will be in the park practising map and compass skills between 9 a-m and 3 p-m.
The training is part of a basic military qualification course led by 37 Service Battalion.
The military says residents and park users may see uniformed personnel in the park, but they won’t be using any weapons or ammunition.
(The Canadian Press)
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Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro and one of the utility’s supervisors are facing charges following a workplace death at a generating station almost two years ago.
The industrial accident was reported August 10th, 2023, from the Holyrood Terminal Station, where a 60-year-old employee died while on the job after coming into contact with electricity in the switchyard area.
The 10 charges under the province’s Occupational Health and Safety Act follow an investigation by the provincial Department of Government Modernization and Service Delivery.
Among other things, the utility has been charged with failing to provide a safe workplace and equipment, and failing to provide training, supervision and facilities necessary to ensure worker safety. (The Canadian Press)
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Nova Scotia’s Progressive Conservative premier was absent from Halifax’s Pride parade over the weekend, marking the second year in a row he missed the largest L-G-B-T-Q-plus celebration in Atlantic Canada.
Fiona Kerr, executive director of Halifax Pride, says the Progressive Conservatives did not participate in the parade because they were late to register and float spots had filled up.
A spokesperson for Premier Tim Houston’s office says the P-C Party was on the wait-list for Saturday’s parade.
When asked if Houston had tried to join another group’s float to take part in the event, they did not directly answer. (The Canadian Press)
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Organizers of the Pride festival in St. John’s, Newfoundland believe they saw the largest turnout ever for the event over the weekend.
St. John’s Pride communications lead Ellen Davis says more than 38-hundred people turned out for the Pride celebration in downtown St. John’s on Sunday.
She says more than 24-hundred marchers took part in the parade before at least 14-hundred spectators.
This year’s festival theme was “No Going Back,” with the chair of St. John’s Pride telling C-B-C News it was chosen because of rising political attacks against transgender people.
(CBC NL)
