(NB-Aquatic-Centre)
The Canada Games Aquatic Centre in Saint John, New Brunswick, is getting an upgrade.
The price tag — 335-thousand dollars.
The city is contributing about a third of the total cost, while the province and the Greater Saint John Regional Facilities Commission will put up the rest.
Officials say the modern upgrades will include new swim blocks, pool-area filters as well as deck and railing replacements.
(CBC New Brunswick)
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(NB-ATV-Fatality)
R-C-M-P say a 22-year-old man has died in New Brunswick following a two-vehicle crash.
They say officers responded to a report of a collision between an S-U-V and an all-terrain vehicle on Sunday night on Highway 11 in Bathurst.
Police say they believe the collision happened when the all-terrain vehicle, travelling the wrong direction, hit the S-U-V head-on.
They say the driver and only occupant of the all-terrain vehicle died at the scene because of his injuries, while the person driving the S-U-V was uninjured.
(The Canadian Press)
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(NL-Soccer-Travels)
A soccer ball has survived a roughly three-thousand-kilometre journey in the ocean from Nunavut’s Baffin Island to the coast of Newfoundland.
Lee Croucher says he had been unloading after a day of lobster fishing last month when he saw the ball in between rocks on the shore of Beaumont and decided to get it for his kids.
He says “Ulaajuk school” was written on the ball and after some Googling, found out that that’s all the way in Pond Inlet, Nunavut.
His daughters are now keeping the ball safe at their home in Robert’s Arm, Newfoundland.
(The Canadian Press)
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(NS-School-Violence)
Nova Scotia’s auditor general says training and prevention measures have failed to keep up with a sharp rise in violence in provincial schools.
Kim Adair’s newest report says teachers and administrators are unprepared to deal with the concerning trend.
The report found a 60 per cent increase in reported incidents of school violence since 2017.
Adair says the rate of violence may in fact be higher, but the province’s statistics lack accuracy because of poor data collection.
(The Canadian Press)
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(Atlantic-Labour-Cuts)
Newfoundland and Labrador’s Immigration Minister says the federal budget axed funding to workplace development programs supporting people with disabilities, Indigenous Peoples, women and newcomers.
A news release says ministers from across Atlantic Canada are demanding Ottawa reverse the 625-million-dollar cut to labour market transfer agreements.
The ministers say the cuts come at a time when high inflation is putting more strain on workers.
They say provinces weren’t given a heads-up about the cuts until they were announced in April in the federal budget.
(The Canadian Press)
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(Halifax-Cogswell-Project)
The Nova Scotia government and Halifax Regional Municipality are putting a combined five million dollars towards the demolition and remediation work of a downtown Halifax project.
Both levels of government are putting 2.5 million dollars towards the Cogswell District project.
The money will go towards the removal of the interchange bridge and two retaining walls and to remediate contaminated soil for the eventual building of street infrastructure.
The redevelopment of the Cogswell Interchange is expected to have capacity for more than 34-hundred housing units.
(The Canadian Press)
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(PEI-Coastal-Erosion)
The University of Prince Edward Island’s climate lab says it has a new tool to help people visualize coastal erosion.
The university says it has an updated version of a video game that allows people to fly over P-E-I, raise and lower sea levels, and click on-and-off coastal erosion rates.
It says the game combines available coastal survey data, historical records, and predictive climate change models, allowing people to explore past changes and what the future looks like.
In 2014, the video game won a prize from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for communicating coastal risk and resilience, and it also won the 2014 Murray Pinchuk Community Builder Award.
(The Canadian Press)
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(PEI-Cultural-Exchange)
Delegates from partner organizations of Veterinarians Without Borders-Canada, hailing from Kenya, Ghana, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia spent a week on P-E-I where they learned about agricultural management.
During their visit from April 28th to May 3rd, the group visited a sheep and dairy farm where they learned about flock health and diseases.
The group also toured the Great Canadian Soap Company and goat farm in Brackley, where they learned about transforming goat milk into soap and other personal care products.
The tour finished with a visit to the U-P-E-I Canadian Centre for Climate Change where they learned about agricultural adaptation to global warming.
(The Canadian Press)
