(NB-Health-Examiners)
New Brunswick’s English-language health authority is looking to double its number of full-time sexual assault nurse examiners.
Horizon Health Network says it’s looking to hire nearly a dozen more forensic nurse examiners, up from the existing nine and a half full-timers.
The funding comes nearly four years after examiners weren’t available at a Fredericton hospital when a woman came in seeking an exam.
The clinical director of the nurse examiner program, Amanda Hunt, says the new positions mark a major expansion. (CTV Atlantic)
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(NB-Gagetown-Funding)
The commander of a New Brunswick military base says expansion plans present both challenges and opportunities for the local population.
Prime Minister Mark Carney announced more than one-billion dollars in new spending at Base Gagetown last month.
Colonel Paul Williams says that includes building new on-base training infrastructure built for modern equipment.
He says the base also is planning to build apartment buildings and some single-family homes for the two-thousand soldiers being posted there over the next decade. (CBC News)
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(NB-Fredericton-Election)
Former Liberal M-P Jenica Atwin is running for mayor of Fredericton.
Atwin says she wants to leverage her connections and experience to help her neighbours.
She made history in 2019 as the first Green MP from Atlantic Canada before crossing to the Liberals.
Atwin is up against longtime city councillor Steve Hicks and retired construction worker John Reid. (The Canadian Press)
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(NS-Health)
The Mental Health Foundation of Nova Scotia is giving out one-point-two-five million dollars in grants this year.
The foundation says the 67 grants across the province aim to help with access to care and support.
The foundation’s president Starr Cunningham says the grants are aiming at building community connections.
Cunningham says she wants to remove the stigma that still exists when it comes to talking about mental health. (CTV Atlantic)
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(NL-Safety-Bikes)
Safety N-L is reminding drivers to watch out for motorcycles and e-bikes with warmer weather in the forecast.
Safety N-L instructor Darrin Dunphy says bikes aren’t as noticeable on the road as other vehicles.
He says scanning quickly isn’t enough for the brain to register what you saw on the road.
Dunphy says people should take four to six seconds before pulling into traffic. (VOCM)
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(Atlantic Update by The Canadian Press)
