(NB-Kidnapping-Sentencing)
A New Brunswick man who abducted a 54-year-old woman at gunpoint in 2024 has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.
In December, Troy Pelkey of Tilley, New Brunswick, was convicted of kidnapping, extortion, forcible confinement, pointing a firearm and uttering threats.
Police say they responded to a report of a kidnapping and assault in Tobique First Nation in April 2024, which resulted in several arrests.
When Pelkey was sentenced last Friday, he also received a 10-year prohibition on possessing firearms and was required to provide a D-N-A sample.
(CTV Atlantic)
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(NB-Agropur)
Premier Susan Holt says a New Brunswick dairy company should’ve shared its restructuring plans before it received taxpayer dollars.
The province in February announced a two-point-four-million dollar loan for Agropur to expand one of its sites.
Agropur said last week it’s closing its Sussex facility by the end of 2028 as part of a large restructuring.
Holt says there will be a net loss of 45 Agropur jobs in New Brunswick.
(CTV News)
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(NL-Rental-Assistance)
The Newfoundland and Labrador government is investing an extra four million dollars a year to help more households qualify for the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Housing Benefits.
The province says the money will see about 500 more low-income households qualify for the rental assistance program.
It says the current waitlist for public housing in the province is just over two-thousand-600 people.
The province says more than 60 per cent of those people have housing, but are struggling to afford it.
(The Canadian Press)
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(NL-Summer-Flights)
Flair Airlines is bringing back direct routes between Toronto and Newfoundland and Labrador’s capital city.
The airline is celebrating the reopening of the route tomorrow at the St. John’s International Airport.
In other flight news, yesterday marked the return of Westjet’s non-stop flights between St. John’s and London’s Gatwick airport.
Non-stop flights between St. John’s and Dublin and Paris are set to resume in the coming weeks.
(The Canadian Press)
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(PEI-Workplace-Mourning)
Today is a national day of mourning for people killed or injured while at work.
The premier of P-E-I issued a statement saying it’s a day to remember those workers from the Island and across Canada who lost their lives in workplace tragedies.
Rob Lantz says everyone deserves to return home safely at the end of the work day, and everyone has a role to play to make sure that happens.
He says the province is renewing its commitment to help prevent workplace tragedies.
(The Canadian Press)
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(NS-Fire-Victims)
Community members in a Halifax-area suburb are mourning following a fatal house fire over the weekend.
Flowers and candles sit outside the Lower Sackville home where three adults died in an early morning fire.
Neighbour Donna Theriault says the 43-year-old man who lived there was kind, friendly, helpful and always outside working on his car.
Halifax fire department says they responded to the fire before 4 a-m Saturday, and a 43-year-old man, 38-year-old woman and 73-year-old woman died in the blaze.
(CTV News)
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