Telegraph-Journal
$270M deal starts ‘new chapter’ for health system, says premier
The government and the group representing New Brunswick’s doctors officially signed a new contract on Thursday, hailing the $270-million four-year deal as the “start of a new chapter” for the province’s struggling health system. Details of the...
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STRUCTURAL ISSUES FORCE CLOSURE OF BRIDGE
The Maple Avenue bridge in Sussex is seen Wednesday, a day after the province’s Department of Transportation and Infrastructure ordered an immediate closure due to ‘several structural issues.’ DTI says a new timeline for a replacement ‘will require...
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ALLAN LEGERE DEAD
Allan Legere, the notorious serial killer who became known as the “Monster of the Miramichi” in the late 1980s, has died. Legere’s death was confirmed Monday by Correctional Service Canada in a news release stating the 78-year-old had “died while in...
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Woman finds stranger who saved her from fire in 1963
“Infant unharmed.” That’s the subhead of a story that appeared in the pages of the Telegraph-Journal on Jan. 28, 1963, after a fire decimated a block of semi-detached homes on Celebration Street on the city’s east side. Now 63 years old, the infant in...
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Province’s change to royalty rates costs $45M in revenue
New Brunswick royalty revenues have plummeted by $45 million. It’s a figure that has forestry royalties to government coffers on track to come in at an historic low in the current fiscal year. And it was a decision to significantly cut royalty rates...
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Statue of Stompin’ Tom Connors gets greenlight
The late Stompin’ Tom Connors could show up somewhere in the city later this year as councillors voted unanimously to accept a proposal to erect a statue of the Canadian music legend. Born in Saint John in 1936, Connors was a singer-songwriter who...
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Child poverty persists despite big promises
A new report upbraids Canadian government officials for failing to end child poverty nearly four decades after promising to do so, pointing to New Brunswick’s own sad case. The latest Child and Family Poverty Report, by the Human Development Council,...
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N.B. journalist narrowly misses cartel bedlam in Puerto Vallarta
I never saw it coming. I had spent 10 days in sunny Puerto Vallarta, the Mexican resort city on the Pacific coast, enjoying what hundreds of thousands of Canadians do every winter, splashing in the surf and eating too many tacos. On the return trip...
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MEDAL FALLS SHORT
Netherlands’ Xandra Velzeboer skates away as Canada’s Courtney Sarault crashes behind her in the short track speed skating women’s 1500m semi-final at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games at Milano Ice Skating Arena in Milan on Friday. Sarault,...
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And bronze makes four for Sarault
Courtney Sarault, Danae Blais, Kim Boutin and Florence Brunelle of Team Canada celebrate after winning bronze in final A of the Short Track Speed Skating Women’s 3000m Relay at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic games at Milano Ice Skating Arena on...
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SARAULT WINS THIRD MEDAL
Silver medallist Canada’s Courtney Sarault poses on the podium of the short track speed skating women’s 1000m final during the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games at Milano Ice Skating Arena in Milan on Monday. It was the Moncton native’s third...
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N.B. speedskater wins bronze in short track
Canadian short-track speedskater Courtney Sarault snatched a bronze medal, but her teammate William Dandjinou missed the podium by a hair after hard-fought battles in the women’s 500-metre and men’s 1,000-metre individual races on Thursday. In the...
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Fighting food insecurity with an empty fridge
It’s hard to miss Jesse Wright when he’s walking around Saint John’s uptown. Just look for the fridge. That’s because since last fall Wright’s taken it upon himself to raise awareness about food insecurity in Saint John. And his means of doing so...
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N.B. speedskater celebrates silver
Moncton’s Courtney Sarault captured her first Olympic medal Tuesday, helping Canada reach the podium in the short track speedskating mixed team relay. It was Canada’s first silver medal at the Milan-Cortina Olympics led by Sarault and teammates...
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NB POWER PITCHES IDEA OF MEDICAL MONEY MAKER
NB Power has found a sweetener as it prepares to drop tens of millions getting the Point Lepreau nuclear station up to scratch. The public utility wants to start making and selling medical isotopes at the Point Lepreau Nuclear Generating Station that...
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Strategy to lower worst rate of road deaths won’t be ready till 2028
A top official says New Brunswick will have a formalized road safety strategy ready by 2028 – a full five years after statistics showed the province had one of the worst rates of collisions and highway deaths in the country. Kelly Cain, deputy...
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Man’s killing deserves better answers than what SiRT can supply, says chief
The chief of the First Nation where RCMP killed a popular father of five last month is questioning the independence and mandate of the organization investigating the shooting. Ross Perley, chief of Neqotkuk, says people in his close-knit community of...
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Carney touts strategy to double size of Canada’s electricity grid
OTTAWA Prime Minister Mark Carney says he will soon reveal a national electricity strategy designed to more than double the size of Canada’s electricity grid. The announcement headlined a closing press conference after a day of meetings with the...
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A DECADE AGO, GREENLAND’S GREATEST WORRY WASN’T TRUMP – IT WAS SALMON
I never imagined when skimming over the calm, cold waters near Nuuk in a beaten-up orange motorboat that more than a decade later, the capital of Greenland would be in the middle of a geopolitical storm. Most people in September 2015 who heard I was...
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12+ VICTIMS OF ALLEGED SEX OFFENCES AT SENIORS’ HOME
More than a dozen victims have now been identified in a sexual offence investigation involving a nursing home in Saint John. Saint John police first alerted the public to the investigation last Friday, noting there was believed to be “multiple”...
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TOPS Eatery closing its doors next month
An uptown staple will be closing its doors next month as TOPS Eatery will be serving its last meals on Feb. 8, its owner, Naveen Saboo, confirmed. In a Facebook post attributed to “The TOPS Eatery Team,” clientele were told Thursday the decision to...
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Police get 15.42% raise over 3 years
Arbitrators have awarded Saint John police officers a salary increase of 15.42 per cent over three years, but their employer is disputing that decision. The ruling came down late last month after contract negotiations between the Saint John Board of...
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FIRST NATIONS MAN DEAD BY POLICE SHOOTING IN TOBIQUE
A New Brunswick First Nation is mourning after a Wolastoqey man was shot dead by police Sunday night. Tobique First Nation (Neqotkuk) Chief Ross Perley identified the deceased as Bronson Paul, “a son, father, brother, partner, nephew, and so much...
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Iranians in New Brunswick speak for censored protesters back home
As deadly protests shake Iran, Shayan Faal says it’s his duty to be the voice of his family members back home, silenced by a government-sanctioned communications shutdown and unable to share their own stories with the rest of the world. The...
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Politics at heart of delay for airport roundabout, says Opposition leader
Premier Susan Holt is refuting an allegation from Opposition Leader Glen Savoie that the government is playing political favourites against a road infrastructure project in his riding. Speaking to Brunswick News last week, Savoie said he suspects a...
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N.B.’s dementia strategy brings hope for families
Jane Van Horne didn’t expect her family would face the dementia journey twice. The 73-year-old retired nurse, who now lives in Fredericton but is originally from Campbellton, first supported her mother as she took care of her husband – Van Horne’s...
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NB Power should call Venezuela about a new orimulsion deal: former premier
Former New Brunswick Premier Shawn Graham says a failed multimillion-dollar fuel deal between Venezuela and NB Power is worth revisiting, if a U.S. pledge to take control of that country’s vast oil reserves and energy infrastructure comes to...
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Having ‘right partners’ key to port’s growth in 2025: CEO
The words “partnership” and “collaboration” are mainstays in Craig Bell Estabrooks’ lexicon and, looking back at 2025, the Port Saint John CEO points to both as key factors in the port’s continued growth. “What a rollercoaster of a year,” Bell...
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Big industry takes a pass on fighting NB Power rate hike
For the first time in generations, the province’s biggest electricity customer is doing nothing to stop a big price hike from NB Power. J.D. Irving, Limited, the large private firm that uses a huge amount of electricity to power its mills and other...
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WINTER WONDERLAND
The Town of Quispamsis has gone all out on its Holiday Dreamland display this year at the Arts and Culture Park. The large display, which features lit presents, toys, animals and more, boasts roughly 60,000 LED lights. The display is on daily between...
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A TREE FOR ALL SEASONS
On the afternoon before Christmas, my sister and I arrive home to house-sit our father through the holidays. She has driven from Halifax and I from Montreal, arriving at the old place in a light snowfall. Our father is alone now, with only the...
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New strategy will carve ‘path’ out of homelessness crisis: minister
New Brunswickers will finally see a “path” out of the homelessness crisis – a complex social crisis that has been decades in the making in part due to “underfunded" government agencies, says the province’s housing minister. The Holt government...
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GAS PRICES PLUNGE
The maximum price that gas stations can charge in New Brunswick has dropped dramatically in the aftermath of the Holt government’s latest effort to lower prices at the pumps for consumers. The price is now the lowest it has been in over four years,...
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City’s first roundabout opens
The city’s first roundabout officially opened Thursday at Sandy Point Road and Foster Thurston Drive but one of the three scheduled to be built between 2026 and 2029 most likely won’t happen next year. Information obtained by Brunswick News from the...
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FAMILIES LOSE HOMES IN FIRE
Norton Fire Department firefighters spray hotspots after a Thursday evening blaze destroyed two buildings on Perkins Drive and forced the evacuation of another. Chief Bill Palmer said high winds and sub-zero temperatures created a challenge for...
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Province may be getting another nuclear reactor
New Brunswick may be getting another nuclear reactor, this one much smaller and aimed at producing the radioactive isotopes used for diagnosing and treating diseases like cancer. U.S.-based Cross River Infrastructure Partners, the developer that has...
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