(NB-Drought-Payment)
A New Brunswick town is offering financial help to residents hit hard by this summer’s drought.
The Village of Memramcook, about 30 minutes outside of Moncton, is introducing a program to reimburse residents for the cost of water delivery, for up to one-thousand dollars.
There are about 800 homes in the area, and half of them rely on well water, which has dried out after the summer drought.
In a council meeting last week, town officials also agreed to make water available at a fill station for residents unable to handle water delivery.
(CTV News)
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(NB-Wrongful-Conviction)
A wrongfully convicted New Brunswick man has died from cancer, less than two years after he was acquitted of murder.
Robert Mailman was 77 years old, and died last week from liver cancer.
In May of 1984, Mailman and friend Walter Gillespie were convicted in the gruesome death of a Saint John man.
Mailman ended up serving 18 years before filing for a conviction review in 2019, and was formally acquitted of the crime last year.
(The Canadian Press)
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(NL-Flotilla-Released)
Three Newfoundland and Labrador activists detained by Israel are set to arrive home today.
The trio were part of a group of six Canadians aboard the Conscience, one of nine ships in the Freedom Flotilla Coalition.
The flotilla aimed to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza, but was intercepted by Israeli forces and detained in Israel’s Ketzi’ot prison.
They were released Sunday morning and transferred to Jordan, and are scheduled to arrive in St. John’s this afternoon.
(The Canadian Press)
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(PEI-Fatal-Crash)
A P-E-I man is dead after a single-vehicle crash on Route 132 in the western part of the province.
Early yesterday morning, emergency crews responded to reports of a car, which appeared to have crossed the centre line, ending up in a ditch.
The driver was the only occupant of the car and he died of his injuries after being transported to hospital.
Emergency crews originally responded to an iPhone crash detection call, where the phone uses motion sensors and other trackers to determine if a severe crash has taken place, and can call emergency lines automatically.
(The Canadian Press)
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(NS-Dartmouth-Fire)
Fire crews in Nova Scotia responded to a two-alarm fire in Dartmouth Monday morning.
According to a social media post from the Halifax Professional Fire Fighters Association, crews responded to a house fire just after 11 a-m.
While firefighters were en route, the fire was upgraded in severity.
Officials say the fire had spread to other structures, but they managed to bring it under control with multiple hose lines.
(The Canadian Press)
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(NS-Souls-Harbour)
A Halifax soup kitchen served over 12-hundred Thanksgiving meals yesterday.
Souls Harbour Rescue Mission’s 14th annual Thanksgiving Banquet was free to anyone in need of a meal.
C-E-O Michelle Porter says since they started serving Thanksgiving dinners, the number of meals served has risen by 300 per cent.
(The Canadian Press)
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(Atlantic Update by The Canadian Press)
