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(NB-Inquest-Dalhousie)
New Brunswick’s coroner has scheduled hearings next month as part of an inquest into the death of a 48-year-old inmate at a jail last year.
Jean-Martin Couture was found unresponsive in his cell in September 2025 at the Dalhousie Regional Correctional Centre in northern New Brunswick by the Quebec boundary.
Couture died at the Campbellton Regional Hospital on September 25th, 2025.
The inquest will begin July 6th at the Campbellton courthouse with jury selection, and is scheduled to run through July 8th.
(The Canadian Press)
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(NL-Titan-Sinking-Report)
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada is recommending that Transport Canada develop a plan to determine whether uncertified vessels pose a safety risk.
The guidance comes as the T-S-B released its report today examining the Titan submersible disaster that killed five people on a descent to the Titanic wreck nearly three years ago.
The report says Transport Canada knew the Titan was operating out of St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, with support from Canadian vessels.
However, it said the department did not provide oversight of the Titan’s operations.
(The Canadian Press)
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(NS-Gaspereau-Overfishing)
Seven people have been accused of illegally catching gaspereau near a fish ladder in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.
The federal Fisheries Department says its officers seized 38-hundred kilograms of fish in the community of Grand River earlier this month.
The fishers are accused of catching the fish 23 metres downstream from the entrance of a fish ladder — a manmade structure that helps fish bypass barriers that block migration routes.
Gaspereau are a member of the herring family and spend most of their lives in the ocean but head to freshwater rivers and lakes in the spring to spawn.
(The Canadian Press)
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(NS-HomeShare)
The Nova Scotia government has named 10 community-based service providers that will coordinate community living arrangement for people with disabilities.
The province says the organizations are a part of a new HomeShare program and they will recruit and screen providers, facilitate matches and provide ongoing support.
Premier Tim Houston said the organizations have community knowledge, trusted relationships and experience supporting people with disabilities.
Nova Scotia is expected to spend just over two-million dollars on the HomeShare program, which is part of the five-year Nova Scotia Human Rights Remedy.
The remedy is an agreement to address systemic discrimination in how the province supports people with disabilities.
(The Canadian Press)
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(NS-Assault)
A Nova Scotia man is facing multiple charges for alleged intimate partner violence and a woman has been charged for obstructing officers.
Mounties say the officers arrived at a home in Hebbville on May 27th after learning of an assault in progress.
Police say upon arrival, a woman actively attempted to obstruct officers who were trying to find the victim and suspect.
Lunenburg District R-C-M-P say they located the victim with non-life-threatening injuries and safely removed her from the residence.
A short time later, a 35-year-old man hiding inside the home was arrested and faces seven charges including kidnapping and assault.
(The Canadian Press)
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(PEI-Drug-Seizure)
Mounties say cocaine, crystal meth and methamphetamine pills were some of the drugs seized following a search of a residence and storage unit in Charlottetown, P-E-I.
Close to 300-thousand dollars in cash, 50-thousand illegal cigarettes, and a handgun were also confiscated during an operation on Friday.
R-C-M-P say a man is facing 19 charges in connection with the seizure, two counts of possession for the purpose of trafficking and five counts of possession of a weapon for dangerous purposes.
(The Canadian Press)
