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New Brunswick is seeking to get rid of vehicle registration stickers.
If passed, the proposed amendments to the Motor Vehicle Act would eliminate the use of registration stickers on all vehicles by next spring.
A provincial release says the change would also apply to off-road and commercial vehicles.
Local Government Minister Aaron Kennedy says nixing licence plate stickers will simplify the registration process, reduce costs and save people time. (CTV News)
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(NB-Gas-Plant) (CBC News)
Conservationists are questioning New Brunswick Power’s decision not to build a billion-dollar gas plant at an industrial park.
The rationale behind the controversial decision to build a gas-fired power plant on a 550-acre woodlot is outlined in a recent report from the utility, but critics aren’t buying it.
In December 2024, N-B Power told reporters the major new gas plant would likely be built in the Scoudouc Industrial Park, about 22 kilometres northeast of Moncton.
However, according to the two-page report, the utility decided just two months later that it would instead opt for property near Centre Village in rural Tantramar.
Local conservation groups argue that a gas plant would be a more suitable location in an industrial park than in the middle of the Chignecto Isthmus. (CBC News)
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The Mounties in Newfoundland say they arrested a 26-year-old man for fleeing police on an A-T-V.
R-C-M-P say officers saw a man driving on a road in Gander on Friday without a helmet.
They say he sped away when police tried to stop him.
Police saw the same driver without a helmet a short time later and he fled again, nearly colliding with two vehicles.
An officer identified the driver and arrested him at his home.
(The Canadian Press)
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Nova Scotia’s Official Opposition say the province should not develop a golf course at West Mabou Beach Provincial Park in Cape Breton.
N-D-P Environment Critic Lisa Lachance says economic development should not come at the expense of protected parks.
The province confirmed last week that it was reviewing a proposal from the Cabot golf company to build in the park, and that it would consider developments in other protected area.
Yesterday, the province designated more than 12-hundred hectares as protected land, which Lachance calls a drop in the bucket of what is needed.
(The Canadian Press)
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The mayor of a community on Newfoundland’s Avalon Peninsula says there was nothing the town or anybody could do to save the local fish plant, which provided good jobs for about 300 people.
Steve Ryan watched his town’s primary source of employment burn to the ground Tuesday night during a powerful storm that pounded the coasts of eastern Newfoundland.
Ryan’s voice broke as he described the years of work he had put into helping new owners reopen the plant in 2022, after it had sat empty for about seven years.
The storm brought winds exceeding 150 kilometres an hour to some areas and surging ocean water destroyed parts of coastal roads.
(The Canadian Press)
