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Police in western New Brunswick say a three-year-old child has died after they were struck by the starting gate at a harness racing track in Woodstock.
The town’s police chief says the gate was being towed by a pickup as a race began Saturday afternoon.
Mark Bennett says the child was later pronounced dead at the Upper River Valley Hospital in Waterville.
Bennett says police are investigating but they are treating the fatality as a “tragic accident.”
(The Canadian Press)
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Police in Halifax have charged a man with attempted murder following a stabbing on the weekend in Dartmouth.
Halifax Regional Police say they were called to a home on Primrose Street just after midnight Saturday night.
Investigators say two men who are known to each other got into a fight, and one of them was stabbed.
The victim is expected to recover from his injuries.
(The Canadian Press)
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Members of a wrongfully convicted man’s family have put his ashes to rest, but say his fight for justice lives on.
Glen Assoun’s ashes were interred yesterday in a small service at a Halifax cemetery by his friend, Reverend David Watt as family members read a letter he sent from prison.
Afterwards his daughter Amanda Huckle said her father will truly find rest once a probe is held into police actions in the case.
In March 2019, a Nova Scotia court acquitted Assoun in the 1995 killing of his ex-girlfriend, Brenda Lee Way — after he spent almost 17 years in prison.
(The Canadian Press)
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New England governors say tariffs and the U-S government’s heated rhetoric toward Canada is taking a bite out of tourism.
The governors made the comments in Boston yesterday, following a meeting with a group of Canadian premiers.
Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey says tourism numbers for her state and others such as Maine, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont are down between 20 and 60 per cent.
Meanwhile, Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he’s asking Canadians to avoid travel to the U-S. even though he loves America and Americans.
(The Canadian Press)
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A marine animal rescue group has confirmed a rare but unfortunate find on Nova Scotia’s eastern shore.
The Marine Animal Response Society in Halifax says the remains of a large, shortfin mako shark were found Saturday near Port Dufferin.
The endangered mako shark is the fastest shark in the ocean — capable of reaching speeds up to 68 kilometres per hour.
Executive Director Tonya Wimmer says it remains unclear how the adult female died — and she confirms that mako sharks are rarely seen closed to shore, preferring warmer water far offshore.
(The Canadian Press)
