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COPS ACCIDENTALLY STARTED FIRE DURING N.B. STANDOFF
Police are admitting they accidentally started a house fire with a tear gas canister during a standoff in Bilijk (Kingsclear First Nation) in spring last year – something they didn’t and wouldn’t acknowledge at the time. Michael Christopher Sabattis...
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Topless woman files complaint after cops ask her to cover up
A Saint John woman has filed a complaint with the city’s police force after she was asked by an officer to stop sunbathing topless at a public beach in the city. Lacey Tompkins filed the complaint following the Saturday afternoon incident at Dominion...
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Moosehead faces potential blow with looming 50% tariff on beer
The head of Moosehead Breweries says looming U.S. tariffs on Canadian alcohol have the potential to deliver a blow to the company’s sales and shelf space south of the border. About 10 per cent of Moosehead beer is shipped to the U.S. market, but with...
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Holt stresses New Brunswickers’ ‘grit’ in face of new Trump tariffs
Premier Susan Holt is highlighting the “grit, resilience and fierce loyalty” of New Brunswickers in the face of tariffs from the Trump administration amid a new threat poised to further hurt New Brunswick businesses if enacted. That’s as Holt vows...
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Aging-in-place neighbourhood expected to be first in region
At the age of 84, Barb Bishop has decided to move out of the home she shared with her husband David who died last year. But she won’t be moving into a nursing home, a special-care home or a traditional apartment-style retirement community. Instead,...
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Do more to prevent deaths from extreme heat: group to province
Peter Jongeneelen was puttering around doing chores in his modest apartment in downtown Moncton last summer when he began to feel weak and numb. At 55 and on medication for his kidneys, his first thought was that he might be suffering another mini...
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Nearly 5% of NB Power customers say no to switching to smart meter
NB Power’s on a mission. The public utility has set itself a target to sign up at least half the customers who have so far refused to accept the installation of a smart meter. Most utilities in Canada and the United States have already installed...
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Gerry Pond, tech pioneer and investor, dies at 82
Gerry Pond, the former NBTel chief executive who became one of Atlantic Canada’s most influential technology investors and mentors, died July 8 at 82 years of age. From his base in Saint John, N.B., Pond, who was appointed to the Order of Canada in...
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PAYING THEIR RESPECTS
Paramedics line up along Route 111 on Friday afternoon outside Saint John as a procession carrying the bodies of Prince Edward Island paramedics Mike MacKenzie and Jenna Croucher started its journey to deliver the pair back to their home province....
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Three dead in ambulance after head-on crash with transport truck, says RCMP
Three people – two paramedics and a passenger in an ambulance – are dead after a head-on crash between the ambulance and a transport truck on the highway just on the New Brunswick side of the Confederation Bridge. Cpl. Luc Picard, media relations...
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DFO officers take to the water to enforce, educate
Despite 25 to 30 knot winds, and waves to match it, Clark Deveau and Jordan Hazenberg jump from one boat to another with an almost ease. That’s as, in their roles as Department of Fisheries and Oceans officers, it’s part of their daily routine to...
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ALMOST 100 N.B. GOVERNMENT AID PROGRAMS UNDER REVIEW
The Holt Liberal government is reviewing dozens of government assistance programs to ensure they’re delivering results for New Brunswickers. Almost 100 programs — including social assistance and supports for those with disabilities — are under review,...
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‘The right thing to do’: N.B. man getting medal for act of bravery
from events a little over a year ago at Little River Reservoir in Saint John Matthew Baxter didn’t think, he just when the 28-year-old, who is a surveyor, acted. And, now, those actions have was at the city park working. placed him in an exclusive...
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N.B. WILL KEEP 3% RENT CAP FOR ANOTHER YEAR
New Brunswick will stick with a three per cent rent cap into 2027 due to current housing market conditions and the ongoing affordability crisis. The Holt Liberal government announced the news this week, citing those factors in its decision to hold...
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N.B. minister wants another reactor at Lepreau by 2035
New Brunswick once, noting it is “exploring expansion at Point Lepreau.” Energy Minister René Legacy wants New Brunswick to be home to a new But Legacy later expanded on that, nuclear reactor by 2035. suggesting a new federal goal to build It’s a...
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LIBERALS PLAN NEW TAX FOR VACANT LOT OWNERS
Brunswick News has learned that the Holt Liberal government will introduce legislation this fall that would allow cities and towns to create a new tax for people who own vacant land. A working group has been set up to devise the scheme, which would be...
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‘WHY DO WE NEED TO CLOSE eVisitNB?’: CEO
A New Brunswick-based virtual health-care company says its service will “remain available after June 30” – the date its government contract to provide publicly funded health consultations comes to an end. It’s not clear exactly how eVisitNB plans to...
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How N.B. food prices today compare to 2016
How much has food inflation hit over the last 10 years? A shopping trip to a local Atlantic Superstore revealed a cart of 22 basic grocery items that cost just under $100 a decade ago now costs $147.80. Brunswick News conducted the price comparison of...
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Holt says she may still bring in her own social media rules
Mark Carney in pushing for online safeguards, something Holt says she’s now reviewing. The federal changes could also be made more quickly, she adds. New Brunswick child and youth advocate Kelly Lamrock agrees, believing the provincial government...
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Protesters rally for moratorium on AI data centres in province
Zoe Ritchie knows firsthand the footprint that technology can leave on the environment. The 29-year-old Fredericton electronics engineering technologist is heavily involved with the e-waste industry as part of her job, overseeing, as she describes,...
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New nuclear axed from NB Power’s energy plan
NB Power’s new plan to meet New Brunswick’s electricity needs likely won’t include any new nuclear power, according to the utility. It’s a dramatic change from the last plan the utility released just three years ago that relied heavily on adding small...
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Holt describes farmers’ protest as a celebration of agriculture
Several hundred farmers, horse owners, and supporters descended on the legislature on Wednesday to protest the government’s axing of provincial veterinary services and its plan to potentially change the provincial testing lab – a protest Premier Susan...
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Watchdog takes aim at literacy failures in schools
the francophone and anglophone sectors. Both plans have an initial, New Brunswick students didn’t meet heavy focus on improving numeracy a single literacy assessment target and literacy skills, and increasing from July 2022 to June 2025, and the the...
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REARDON BEGINS SECOND TERM AS MAYOR
Donna Reardon was sworn in as Saint John’s mayor Monday in council chambers by city clerk Jonathan Taylor. Reardon will continue to serve as the city’s 79th mayor, having won her second term in the May 11 municipal election. The new council was also...
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BOARD GREEN-LIGHTS NB POWER GAS PLANT
The provincial regulator has approved NB Power’s application for a new natural gas plant in Tantramar that should provide enough electricity to supply most of southeast New Brunswick, at least over the short term. It means eight turbines could be...
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‘We’ve lost an icon’: Family, friends pay final tributes to Robert Irving
There were tears, but also laughter, on Tuesday as hundreds gathered in Sussex for the funeral of industrialist Robert Irving at the Saunders Irving Chapel. Irving died on May 19 at the age of 71 after a battle with cancer. The co-CEO of J.D. Irving,...
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Company provided incomplete info about toxic spill: documents
The chrome plating company that leaked nearly 1,000 litres of chemicals along 14 kilometres of the Trans-Canada Highway and neighbouring Fredericton roads in March did not initially provide provincial officials full information about its contents,...
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Solar users say NB Power is raining on their parade
People who like green energy are seeing red over a plan to charge solar panel users much more for electricity. NB Power has put in an application with the provincial regulator that would change the rules for people with solar systems. Existing...
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N.B. INFLATION JUMPS
Rising gas prices fuelled by the U.S. war against Iran are being blamed for a sharp rise in inflation, with New Brunswick’s rate jumping to 4.2 per cent in April, according to new data from Statistics Canada. That’s up from 2.9 per cent the same time...
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Robert Irving dies at 71
Prominent businessman and Moncton Wildcats owner Robert Irving died Tuesday after a battle with cancer, his family has announced. He was 71. Irving was co-CEO of J.D. Irving, Limited, leading the company’s Moncton-based operations which included...
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EUB decision pushes gas up nearly four cents a litre
The Holt government’s attempt to stop the cost of federal clean fuel regulations from being passed on to New Brunswickers at the pumps has officially failed. And the new maximum gas price calculation the New Brunswick Energy and Utilities Board began...
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Baby delivered in cold outside hospital doors
A baby was delivered on the sidewalk outside the Fredericton hospital last month because labour and birth services were unavailable at the Upper River Valley Hospital more than an hour away. Lauren and Nick Atkinson welcomed their daughter, Charlotte,...
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REARDON RE-ELECTED AS SAINT JOHN MAYOR
Donna Reardon has been re-elected mayor of Saint John, winning her bid for a new four-year term Monday night. The longtime municipal politician took the three-way contest by more than 1,200 votes, according to results published by Elections New...
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GAS NEARS $2 A LITRE
Gas prices in New Brunswick are flirting with $2 a litre as of Friday morning. According to the New Brunswick Energy and Utilities Board, the maximum allowable price of selfserve regular gas rose from 191.3 cents earlier this week to 197.0 on...
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Could NBers be banned from the woods again?
A recent court ruling that sided with Nova Scotians over the government apparently hasn’t caused New Brunswick to close the door on more closures of Crown woods, and it says the two provinces’ approaches weren’t the same. On Aug. 5 last year, the Nova...
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What would a permanent change to daylight time look like?
Maintaining daylight time yearround in New Brunswick would mean that the sun would never set anywhere in the province before 5:25 p.m. at any time of the year. The move not to return to standard time would ultimately eliminate the roughly 70 days...
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IRVING OIL CHARGED IN BIG DIESEL SPILL
Charges have been laid in the case of the underground fuel leak at the Murray’s Irving gas station in Woodstock, believed to be one of the worst such disasters in Canada. On Wednesday, the provincial government said it had laid two counts the day...
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FEDERAL DEFICIT $11B LOWER BUT STILL $67B IN THE RED
The federal deficit is now $11 billion lower in fiscal 2025-26 than the Carney government originally predicted in its first budget. A newly released spring economic update attempts to tout the country’s resilience amid a turbulent world economy. It...
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LIBERALS’ PD DAY PILOT PROJECT TO CONTINUE NEXT SCHOOL YEAR
The Holt government plans to continue its professional development day pilot project in the anglophone sector next school year. Education Minister Claire Johnson revealed the news last week after she was asked about the province’s plan to share...
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Paramedics were ‘afraid to fail’ in rescuing man from burning home
From his hospital bed in Saint John, Steven Comeau doesn’t have a clear recollection of how he got there, but he knows the two men responsible for getting him there. That’s because, by his own admission, Comeau can’t recall all the details of a fire...
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Driver scolded after kids let off broken-down bus
A Saint John mother says her 13-year-old daughter should not have been allowed to leave a broken-down school bus and walk home on a busy road, and that parents of affected students were never told about the incident. That’s not what Anglophone School...
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N.B. INCHING TOWARD TWO DEALS AFTER CARNEY MEETING: PREMIER
Premier Susan Holt says she’s inching towards deals with the federal government over health care infrastructure spending and the next step in a major mining project. Holt went through a gauntlet of meetings in Ottawa on Monday, highlighted by talks...
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Police board chair won’t comment on faith in chief, citing HR limits
The chair of the Board of Police Commissioners would not confirm whether or not the city board still has confidence in Chief Robert Bruce in the wake of workplace harassment complaints now before the courts. In an interview with Brunswick News, Tamara...
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Irving Oil makes second bid to use Newfoundland crude
Irving Oil has filed a second request to use a foreign-flagged tanker to transport crude oil from Newfoundland and Labrador to its refinery in Saint John, New Brunswick. If approved, the foreign vessel will load one or two cargos and transport between...
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Liberals set to roll out ‘significant’ changes to property tax system
The Holt Liberal government is expected to deliver this spring its long-awaited plan to overhaul the province’s property tax and assessment systems. Local Government Minister Aaron Kennedy confirmed that a reform bill will be introduced in the...
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CHIEF SAYS HE FACED ‘RESISTANCE’ TO CHANGE FROM POLICE UNION
Saint John’s police chief said he’s faced “resistance” to efforts to bring change to the force but remains “fully invested and committed” to his job, in response to allegations of a toxic workplace reported by Brunswick News. On Wednesday, the Saint...
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POLICE CHIEF SAID WOUNDED OFFICER ‘HAD IT COMING TO HIM,’ LAWSUIT ALLEGES
Two days before Samantha McInnis became the Saint John Police Force’s executive officer, the 18year veteran from Fredericton said she was “taken aback” when Chief Robert Bruce warned her over dinner about “thugs” in the ranks, and said an officer who...
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HOLT’S FREE TICKETS TO TWO NHL GAMES NOT PUBLICLY DISCLOSED
Susan Holt has attended two NHL games and an NBA game all paid for by private interests since becoming premier. But it’s not something that’s publicly disclosed anywhere. New Brunswick’s integrity commissioner says the tickets don’t count as gifts...
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From N.B. to the moon and back
Call it New Brunswick’s small part in a big journey. As NASA sends four astronauts on a 10-day expedition around the moon, Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen is bringing on board seeds from Canadian trees. And those seeds have been carefully chosen...
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No relief for NBers feeling pain at the pump: minister
Tax relief won’t be offered to consumers suffering at the gas pumps because the provincial government itself is badly strapped, says the finance minister. Since the United States and Israel launched a war in Iran on Feb. 28, world fuel prices have...
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Secretive cuts a ‘threat’ to ‘farms, our animals, our food system,’ protest told
About 150 farmers, large animal owners, and their supporters braved a sloppy spring Tuesday to denounce the Holt government’s budget cut of provincial veterinary services, calling for the decision to be reversed and warning that rural New Brunswickers...
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PROVINCE TO REPLACE SIX NURSING HOMES
The province will replace six aging nursing homes and create 240 new long-term care beds as part of its newly unveiled plan for the sector. At an event at Fredericton’s YMCA on Thursday morning, Seniors Minister Lynne Chantal-Boudreau, Health Minister...
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Ambulances stay put in rural N.B. under new policy
Ambulance New Brunswick has scrapped the controversial practice of pulling ambulances out of rural communities at times to backfill urban areas. Rural community leaders and paramedics have been calling for years for a rethink of the practice – known...
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ON THE LOOKOUT FOR AGGRESSIVE DRIVERS
Constable Dylan Jones speaks with a driver during last week’s aggressive driving campaign in Saint John. Officers were on the look out for a variety of driving offences during the campaign.
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Farmers, opposition decry Libs’ vet cuts
A farmers’ union and the two opposition parties are slamming the Liberals’ budget decision to stop providing government veterinarian services that were primarily used by farmers and owners of large animals, like horses. And they’ve been joined in that...
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HARBOUR BRIDGE WORK STARTS MONDAY
A man walks along the Harbour Passage trail beneath the Harbour Bridge in Saint John. A portion of the trail, from Hilyard Street to Fort LaTour, will be closed throughout the duration of construction on the Harbour Bridge, which begins Monday and...
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LIBERALS PLAN TO OVERSPEND BY $5 BILLION OVER MANDATE
The provincial government plans to rack up budget deficits totalling more than $5 billion over its four-year mandate, but insists the spending is needed to fix the health system and help ease the affordability crisis. Already facing a 2025/2026 fiscal...
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$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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