(NB-Trade-Hunt-Fish)
Premier Susan Holt’s suggestion that New Brunswick might limit the distribution of hunting and fishing licences to Canadians only has left the province’s outfitters very worried.
Holt said last week her government would determine if such a move was possible as she rolled out measures aimed at responding to the ongoing trade war between Canada and the United States.
Clay Harrison, executive director of the United Guides and Outfitters of New Brunswick, tells C-T-V News that preventing Americans from getting licences would be “devastating.”
Harrison says more than 85 per cent of the outfitters’ business comes from American hunters and fishermen.
(CTV News)
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(NS-Cremated-Remains)
A Nova Scotia woman says she doesn’t know who her family buried eight years ago after the new owners of an funeral home revealed that her father’s remains were actually still in storage.
Amanda Sabean says her family buried what they were told were the cremated remains of her father in the spring of 2018.
Last week, her sister received an email from East Coast Memorial, which recently acquired the assets of the former Serenity Funeral Home, asking that their father’s remains be picked up.
Several other people on social media are sharing similar stories about the remains of their loved ones and the provincial government has launched an investigation.
(The Canadian Press)
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(NL-Churchill-Falls)
The grand chief of the Innu Nation says the Indigenous group will not support a new Churchill River energy deal unless the Newfoundland and Labrador government resolves its issues with them.
In a social media post, Jodie Ashini said Premier Tony Wakeham must change his government’s position about the history of the Innu in Labrador.
Ashini has said the province interfered in a planned Innu cultural exhibit earlier this year because the government believes a “fringe” theory that Innu arrived in Labrador about 300 years ago — after the Europeans.
Wakeham angered the Innu again when he announced his government would conduct an audit of all research and holdings at the provincial archeology office related to Innu history.
In her post Monday evening, Ashini said Innu history did not begin when the government of Newfoundland and Labrador began documenting it.
(The Canadian Press)
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(NL-Caribou-Poaching)
Newfoundland and Labrador’s Forestry Department is looking for help as it tries to nab a caribou poacher in the Stephenville area.
Resource enforcement officers started investigating after an adult caribou was shot and left in a bog off the Black Duck Siding Resource Road.
Officials say it happened between September 11th and 12th.
It’s illegal to kill caribou in the area and anybody with information is asked to contact investigators.
(The Canadian Press)
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(Hfx-Man-Follows-Women)
Police in Halifax have charged a man after receiving reports of women being followed.
Earlier this month, officers were told about three incidents involving women being followed by a man into their apartment buildings near Spring Garden Road.
There were no reports of physical injuries.
The suspect has been charged with criminal harassment, mischief and break and enter.
(The Canadian Press)
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(NS-Arson-Investigation)
R-C-M-P are investigating an arson in the East Preson area east of Halifax.
Police were called to a fire on Upper Partridge Road around 9 p-m Saturday.
The unoccupied residence was fully engulfed in flames.
Police say the fire is considered suspicious and the investigation is ongoing.
(The Canadian Press)
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