(NB-Collective-Agreement)
New Brunswick’s provincial government has reached a tentative agreement with the Canadian Union of Public Employees local that represents correctional workers.
Finance Board Minister René Legacy says the 750 employees “serve critical roles in public safety.”
Employees include correctional officers, correctional cooks, laundry and custodial workers and counsellors.
Details of the agreement will remain confidential until it is ratified.
(The Canadian Press)
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(NS-Wind-West)
Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston is floating the idea of dramatically ramping up the province’s offshore wind energy industry.
Houston posted a video on social media earlier this week saying his new “Wind West” plan calls for construction of enough offshore wind turbines to supply 27 per cent of Canada’s total demand for electricity.
The province is currently reviewing potential licences for offshore wind farm companies hoping to produce up to five megawatts of electricity — but Houston wants to increase that output to 40 megawatts.
Houston says he’s looking to Ottawa to help pay for the project, but he has yet to say how much it will cost.
(The Canadian Press)
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(NS-Impaired-Driving)
The Mounties have charged a woman with impaired driving offences following an investigation into a fatal off-highway vehicle crash last year in central Nova Scotia.
Police say that on May 27th, 2024, they went to the scene of a crash on a logging road near the community of Forties.
An infant from the small town died from injuries sustained in the crash, while a 27-year-old female driver from Forties and a 52-year-old man from New Ross suffered serious injuries and another child suffered minor injuries.
Police say blood analysis established that the driver’s blood alcohol concentration was more than twice the legal limit at the time of the crash.
(The Canadian Press)
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(Carney-Parliamentary-Secretaries)
Prime Minister Mark Carney has named New Brunswick’s David Myles as parliament secretary of Canadian Identity and Culture and Minister responsible for Official Languages.
Thirty-nine members of Parliament were chosen by Carney to assist ministers and secretaries of state.
Almost half of the parliamentary secretaries are M-Ps elected for the first time in April.
Parliamentary secretaries receive an additional 20-thousand-200 dollars, on top of their M-P pay of 209-thousand-800 dollars.
(The Canadian Press)
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(PEI-Oyster-Parasite)
Researchers are hoping to use genetic signals left behind by organisms in the environment to better understand a parasite that is destroying oysters in the waters off Atlantic Canada.
Ryan Carnegie — a shellfish pathologist at Virginia Institute of Marine Science — says scientists want to use environmental D-N-A, or e-D-N-A, to study the life cycle of multinucleate sphere unknown — or M-S-X.
He says environmental D-N-A is genetic material that can be detected in an environment sample such as sea water.
Scientists in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and P-E-I studying M-S-X using e-D-N-A are getting 800-thousand dollars from various sources including Genome Atlantic, Genome Canada and provincial governments for two years.
(The Canadian Press)
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(Cape-Breton-Composting)
Cape Breton Regional Municipality is planning to outsource the handling of recycling products and composting materials.
People will still be asked to put out their blue bags and green bins at the curb.
However, council voted this week to gradually close the composting facility in Sydney — shifting the compost to landfills off the island — and will sell its recycling sorting facility in nearby Point Edward to a private firm.
The city estimates the moves will save the municipality a total of about 2.5 million dollars in annual operating costs.
(CBC News)
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(NL-Torch-Run)
The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary will join other uniformed service members at tomorrow’s Law Enforcement Torch Run for Special Olympics in St. John’s.
A number of organized runs and walks are happening across the province as part of the Torch Run.
All monies raised will stay in the province for use in support of Special Olympics Newfoundland and Labrador athletes.
Motorists should be aware the run will start at 10 a-m so delays are expected in areas around Paradise Park, Topsail Road and the Mount Pearl city depot.
(The Canadian Press)
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