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New Brunswick says a second round of retention payments will soon be sent to the province’s nurses.
The province says the first round of payments last year amounted to five-thousand dollars for each nurse who committed to another year of service.
The second round of payments also requires another year of service.
The province employs almost 11-thousand nurses.
(The Canadian Press)
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The New Brunswick government will spend five-million dollars to upgrade the sports facility at Université de Moncton.
The money will be used to renovate a gym and modernize the 50-year-old building.
The sports facility also houses the university’s kinesiology school, rehabilitation clinics and various sports and fitness programs.
(The Canadian Press)
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Nova Scotia R-C-M-P say they were searching for a possible impaired driver hours before a two-vehicle crash killed five people on the weekend.
Police say the vehicle they were looking for was the same blue Honda Civic that crashed into another vehicle on Highway 101 near Falmouth on Saturday night.
The Mounties are looking for information from the public regarding the whereabouts of the car before 7:20 p-m., when they received a report about a possible impaired driver.
Four people were pronounced dead at the scene, a 50-year-old man died later in hospital, and a 29-year-old man from British Columbia was listed in critical condition.
(The Canadian Press)
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(Fedelxn-NL)
A judicial recount got underway yesterday in a rural Newfoundland riding where the federal Liberal candidate finished with a 12-vote lead on election night.
Elections Canada says it could take a day or two for the final results to be determined.
The recount in the Terra Nova—The Peninsulas is one of four recounts ordered after the election on April 28th.
The Liberal party now holds 170 seats in the House of Commons, two shy of the 172 needed for a majority government.
(The Canadian Press)
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(Fishers-Detention-Review)
An Indigenous leader in Nova Scotia is calling on Ottawa to begin a review into why fisheries officers allegedly arrested two Mi’kmaq fishers in March 2024 and left them at a Nova Scotia gas station without shoes or phones.
Chief Gerald Toney of the Annapolis Valley First Nation told a news conference in Ottawa there has been no movement on the file since then-fisheries minister Diane Lebouthillier called for the review on July 8th.
Toney says the way the two men were treated was “inhumane,” and he urged Prime Minister Mark Carney to take action within his first 100 days in office.
A veteran fisheries officer was suspended in December without pay for 10 days for his role in arresting the two men on a freezing cold night near Shelburne in southwestern Nova Scotia.
(The Canadian Press)
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(PEI-Property-Taxes)
The P-E-I government says property tax notices are in the mail.
The government says payments can be made by cheque at the Taxation and Property Records office, or through the Access P-E-I site — or through a bank.
It says the province collects more than 281-million dollars through property taxes.
The first payment is due on May 31st.
(The Canadian Press)
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(NB-Fredericton-Housing-Report)
The City of Fredericton has released a new report showing rapidly shifting housing needs and changing household dynamics.
The update to the Housing Needs Assessment shows a smaller proportion of both rental and ownership markets is affordable to all households, reporting that homelessness has increased by 63 per cent between 2021 and 2023.
With population growth in Fredericton projected to increase 41 per cent over the next two decades, the housing assessment says the city will require nearly 20-thousand housing units over that span to keep up with demand.
The city has seen record housing starts over the past five years, but construction has not kept pace with population growth. (The Canadian Press)
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(NL-Suspicious-Fire)
Provincial police in Newfoundland and Labrador are investigating a suspicious fire in Frenchman’s Cove.
Officers responded to a report of a structure fire on MacDonald Road at 3:20 a-m today, where they observed a shed on a residential property that had sustained significant fire and smoke damage.
Police say the fire is believed to be suspicious, and the investigation is ongoing.
They’re asking anyone with information or any video footage of the incident to reach out to them. (The Canadian Press)
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(NS-Halifax — Murder-Trial)
The second-degree murder trial in Pat Stay’s death is now underway after a jury has been selected.
It’s alleged that Adam Drake stabbed and killed the Dartmouth rapper outside a downtown Halifax bar in September 2022.
The trial was set to begin eight months ago, but it was delayed after Drake’s lawyer became a judge.
Justice Scott Norton says the trial would last until approximately June 18th. (CTV News)
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(NB-Hunting-Fishing-Licences)
Hunters and fishers in New Brunswick may now present electronic copies of their licences to conservation officers when asked for ID.
The policy change ends the need for a signature on licences issued by the Department of Natural Resources and Energy Development’s electronic licensing system for such activities as hunting, angling, and trapping.
Natural Resources Minister John Herron says allowing hunters and fishers to show an electronic licence as proof to a conservation officer, instead of carrying a paper copy, is something they have long been asking for.
The licensee must still be able to present a copy of his or her licence upon request, regardless of internet connectivity or other phone issues.
(The Canadian Press)
