A review is underway into New Brunswick\u2019s Right to Information Act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Law and Democracy Centre has criticized the law as being one of the weakest in Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Experts, including centre director Toby Mendel, are calling on the review to consider giving the information commissioner stronger powers to enforce her recommendations, and cut back on ways to censor documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Liberal government has published a discussion paper on the legislation, and is inviting public submissions on the questions it poses by September 12th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(The Canadian Press)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The City of Fredericton says its infrastructure will be protected through an investment of 7.9-million dollars from Ottawa’s Disaster Mitigation and Adaptation Fund.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
City officials say they will use the money to support 13 projects that are expected to make the city’s core more resilient to natural disasters and climate change. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some of the planned work includes upgrading culverts and underground water systems, shoreline naturalization, and placing power lines underground to prevent damage during severe storms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(The Canadian Press)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Police in eastern New Brunswick are asking for the public’s help as they investigate a hit-and-run involving a pedestrian south of Richibucto<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They say officers responded to a call about a person who had been hit by a vehicle on Highway 11 near Exit 42 on Saturday around 2 a-m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They say they vehicle sped away and the injured pedestrian was taken to hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(The Canadian Press)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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A 79-year-old activist in Halifax says he and his R-V are staying put in Africville Park — 50 years after he started a protest there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Eddie Carvery, who was born in the former village of Africville, has maintained a protest camp on the land that was a Black community until the city of Halifax demolished it in the 1960s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Carvery says the descendants of those who lived in the community should be given compensation for their loss. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He has ignored a number of eviction notices over the years, and says he has no plans to leave despite a recent eviction order that told him to leave by July 13th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(CBC News)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The Nova Scotia and federal governments have designated four areas off the province’s coast as offshore wind development zones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Following public consultations, the French Bank, Middle Bank and Sable Island Bank have been chosen as potential sites for Canada’s first offshore wind farms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Provincial Energy Department spokeswoman Kim Doane says the province expects to issue a call for development bids by the end of this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The province’s goal is to license five gigawatts of offshore wind energy by 2030. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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