A review is underway into New Brunswick’s Right to Information Act.
The Law and Democracy Centre has criticized the law as being one of the weakest in Canada.
Experts, including centre director Toby Mendel, are calling on the review to consider giving the information commissioner stronger powers to enforce her recommendations, and cut back on ways to censor documents.
The Liberal government has published a discussion paper on the legislation, and is inviting public submissions on the questions it poses by September 12th.
(The Canadian Press)
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The City of Fredericton says its infrastructure will be protected through an investment of 7.9-million dollars from Ottawa’s Disaster Mitigation and Adaptation Fund.
City officials say they will use the money to support 13 projects that are expected to make the city’s core more resilient to natural disasters and climate change.
Some of the planned work includes upgrading culverts and underground water systems, shoreline naturalization, and placing power lines underground to prevent damage during severe storms.
(The Canadian Press)
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Police in eastern New Brunswick are asking for the public’s help as they investigate a hit-and-run involving a pedestrian south of Richibucto
They say officers responded to a call about a person who had been hit by a vehicle on Highway 11 near Exit 42 on Saturday around 2 a-m.
They say they vehicle sped away and the injured pedestrian was taken to hospital.
(The Canadian Press)
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A 79-year-old activist in Halifax says he and his R-V are staying put in Africville Park — 50 years after he started a protest there.
Eddie Carvery, who was born in the former village of Africville, has maintained a protest camp on the land that was a Black community until the city of Halifax demolished it in the 1960s.
Carvery says the descendants of those who lived in the community should be given compensation for their loss.
He has ignored a number of eviction notices over the years, and says he has no plans to leave despite a recent eviction order that told him to leave by July 13th.
(CBC News)
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The Nova Scotia and federal governments have designated four areas off the province’s coast as offshore wind development zones.
Following public consultations, the French Bank, Middle Bank and Sable Island Bank have been chosen as potential sites for Canada’s first offshore wind farms.
Provincial Energy Department spokeswoman Kim Doane says the province expects to issue a call for development bids by the end of this year.
The province’s goal is to license five gigawatts of offshore wind energy by 2030.
