(NB-Officer-Cleared)
New Brunswick’s police watchdog has cleared a member of the Miramichi Police Force of wrongdoing during an arrest in September.
The Serious Incident Response Team says the officer arrested a woman for refusing to move her vehicle or provide I-D while stopped at a gas station.
The agency says the woman’s wrist was broken after she was arrested and she resisted getting into a police vehicle.
The team’s director found no grounds to believe the officer had committed a criminal offence during the arrest.
(The Canadian Press)
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(NB-Health-Care-Recruitment)
The New Brunswick government is extending a pair of tuition-for-employment bursaries aimed at boosting the ranks of front-line health-care workers.
The program is open to graduates from six approved training programs, so long as they sign a deal to work for Ambulance New Brunswick.
Primary-care and advanced-care paramedics must sign a two-year agreement, while medical technicians have to sign a one-year deal.
Graduates are fully reimbursed for what they spent on tuition by the end of their contracts.
(The Canadian Press)
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(NS-Amherst-Shooting)
Police in northern Nova Scotia have charged two people with first-degree murder in the shooting death of a man found wounded on a street in Amherst on Monday night.
The Amherst Police Department says a third suspect, who is also facing a first-degree murder charge, remains at large.
The police department says 34-year-old Michael James Ryan of Springhill, Nova Scotia, should not be approached.
Meanwhile, investigators confirmed two people from Moncton were arrested in Moncton and charged with the killing of 41-year-old Chris Leggett of Amherst.
(The Canadian Press)
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(NS-Long-Term-Care)
The union representing striking long-term-care workers in Nova Scotia says employees at four more homes could join the labour action next week.
The Canadian Union of Public Employees says that will increase the number of striking workers from the current 24-hundred to more than three-thousand.
On Thursday, workers at Pictou County’s Valley View Villa became the 25th home to join the strike.
The government has said it’s offering wage increases of 12 per cent over four years, with higher raises for some workers.
(The Canadian Press)
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(NL-Wildfire-Season)
The Newfoundland and Labrador government is helping residents of Conception Bay North get ready for wildfire season.
The government has issued a tender for companies to clear charred foliage from last year’s wildfires along a section of Route 70.
In addition, the province is doubling the amount of wood that can be cut using domestic permits in special cutting zones near certain communities.
(The Canadian Press)
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(Atl-Gas-Prices)
Buying gas will be cheaper today in two Maritime provinces.
New Brunswick’s regulator lowered the maximum price of regular, self-serve gas by 3.6 cents per litre to just under one dollar and 81 cents.
P-E-I cut its maximum price to about one-eighty-seven, a drop of nearly three-and-a-half cents.
Nova Scotia has kept the price of regular gas unchanged at a Halifax-area minimum of about one dollar and 79 cents.
(The Canadian Press)
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(Atlantic Update by The Canadian Press)
