New Brunswick News Headlines
- N.B. needs catastrophic-drug plan: patients
- Patients and advocates in New Brunswick continue to call on the province to provide a catastrophic drug coverage plan.
- Saint John port needs money: authority
- Port managers in Saint John, N.B., claim they will face an "operational crisis" next summer if work doesn't begin within weeks to expand cruise ship facilities.
- Still no MLA pension review
- N.B. MLAs have not followed through on a promise to review an 85 per cent pension bump they voted themselves more than two years ago.
- Tories cold to Mackay Highway expansion
- At least two Conservatives oppose the widening of the highway that connects Saint John, N.B., and its suburbs.
- VLTs replaced with bingo night
- A not-for-profit club in Shediac replaces lost revenue from banned video lottery terminals with a bingo night.
- McCain Foods moves to cut sodium levels
- McCain Foods is working on new recipes for its packaged food products to meet guidelines laid out in Health Canada's Sodium Reduction Strategy.
- N.B. birdwatchers treated to rare sight
- Birdwatchers in New Brunswick are surprised and excited by a rare sighting of an American White Pelican on Miscou Island.
- Racial graffiti angers Saint John residents
- A racial slur was found scrawled on a car in Saint John Monday morning, just weeks after swastikas were spray-painted on a vehicle and a church's community centre in the same part of the city.
- NB liquor store delayed
- The flagship NB Liquor store slated for the historic Fredericton train station is running behind schedule.
- Fredericton holds 1st pride parade
- Fredericton, N.B., held its first gay pride parade Sunday, with the support of a mayor who had fought pride festivities just 12 years ago.
- Locals get first crack at Moncton stadium
- Moncton 2010 stadium to be used by Monctonians for the first time Monday.
- Lobster season starts along Northumberland Strait
- Lobster season opened along the Northumberland Strait Monday for about 500 fishermen who are hopeful that this season will bring better prices than the last two years.
- Pit bulls may be put down
- A complaint about a dog attack that killed a cat and injured its owner reaches Saint John city hall.
- Municipalities Act needs teeth: professor
- Geoff Martin, an N.B. politicial scientist and former municipal councillor, says the province's municipality act needs to be overhauled so that city councils can be held to account when they break the rules.
- Princess Margaret Bridge open again
- The Princess Margaret Bridge in Fredericton reopened Sunday afternoon after a five-week closure, making it a little easier to get around Fredericton.
- N.B. woman arrested in teen stabbing
- A 45-year-old woman from Elsipogtog First Nation in New Brunswick has been arrested in the stabbing of a teenager early Saturday, police say.
- Marathon By Sea a success
- About 800 people turned out for the 16th annual Marathon by the Sea in Saint John, with events including a Nordic walk, an eight-kilometre run, and full and half marathons.
- N.B. woodlot course attracts young adults
- About a dozen young adults took part in a unique course on ecological forestry this past week near Sackville, N. B. — an event that pleased members of the New Brunswick Federation of Woodlot Owners.
- N.B. nuclear plant another year behind schedule
- The $1.4-billion refurbishment of the Point Lepreau Nuclear Generating Station is another year behind schedule, Atomic Energy of Canada tells the New Brunswick government.
- Traffic roundabouts proposed for Fredericton
- Roundabouts may soon be a part of traffic control in Fredericton.
- Premiers support Fundy's natural-wonder bid
- Canada's premiers have agreed to support a bid to make the Bay of Fundy one of seven new wonders of nature.
- $429K for Charlo sports facility
- A sports facility in Charlo, N.B., is getting almost $430,000 in provincial funding to upgrade its cross-country skiing and biathlon training centre.
- $1M for N.B. arts and heritage projects
- The federal government announced more than $1 million in funding Friday for dozens of New Brunswick arts and heritage projects.
- Fredericton to hold 1st pride parade
- Organizers of Fredericton's first-ever pride parade and festival say even former opponent Mayor Brad Woodside supports the event.
- Premiers to build bulk-buy drug program
- Canada's premiers and territorial leaders say they will work to establish a pan-Canadian purchasing alliance to bulk-buy prescription drugs, medical supplies and equipment.
- Efficient wind energy goal of Maritime group
- A consortium of Maritime electricity companies is planning to team up with customers to make use of wind energy when it is available.
- Seatbelts unused in half of traffic deaths: RCMP
- N.B. RCMP say almost half of the traffic fatalities this year were due to people not wearing their seatbelts.
- N.B. election spurs interest groups
- The New Brunswick Coalition for Pay Equity and the New Brunswick Real Estate Association release reports timed to coincide with the provincial election campaign.
- Boats to remain on Saint John drinking water
- More stringent provincial rules for motorboats on Saint John, N.B.'s, drinking water supply are coming - but not until fall 2011, and not the complete ban the city wants.
- Dali painting from N.B. on the move
- A Salvador Dali painting that belongs to a Fredericton gallery is temporarily part of an exhibition of the artist's work at Atlanta's High Museum of Art.
- Literacy teacher for the mentally ill honoured
- A New Brunswick woman is being honoured for her work teaching literacy to the mentally ill.
- Couturier puts junior team ahead of NHL draft
- Sean Couturier's name has already been mentioned as a potential first overall pick in the 2011 NHL draft, but the 18-year-old centre doesn't want to think that far ahead just yet.
- Impact statements can't 'hijack' justice: N.B. court
- New Brunswick's Court of Appeal rules that a judge was "overwhelmed" by a victim impact statement and warned that such statements cannot be allowed to hijack the process.
- Pit bulls attack N.B. woman, kill cat
- Saint John, N.B., police say they don't plan to lay any charges after a woman was attacked by two loose pit bulls that killed her cat.
- N.B., N.S. lobby to list Fundy as natural wonder
- The premiers of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia will lobby their counterparts from across the country to help make the Bay of Fundy one of the seven new wonders of nature.
- St. George food bank may close
- The food bank in St. George is in immediate danger of closing because it can't afford its $80,000 operating costs
- Save historic Mount A. building: architect
- A retired architect in Sackville worries a new arts centre slated for Mount Allison University will mean the demolition of the former memorial library.
- IPad for the birds: naturalist
- Mary Majka was one of the first people in the world designated to receive an iPad, even though the 87-year-old had never before owned a computer, or even typed a message.
- New Moncton courthouse hit by vandals
- Vandals caused $10,000 worth of damage at the new Moncton courthouse under construction, RCMP say.
News Headlines
- Markets cut losses on Federal Reserve move
- North American markets pared earlier losses Tuesday after the U.S. Federal Reserve acknowledged the pace of the U.S. economic recovery has slowed and said it would buy government debt on a small scale.
- July housing starts fall
- Canada's seasonally adjusted rate of housing starts slipped to 189,200 in July, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation says.
- New house prices rise 0.1% in June
- New house prices across the country rose by 0.1 per cent in June, according to numbers released by Statistics Canada.
- Federer advances at Rogers Cup
- Roger Federer notched a 7-6, 6-3 second-round victory over Argentina's Juan Ignacio Chela in Toronto on Tuesday in front of an appreciative centre-court crowd.
- Blue Jays' bats can't dispatch Boston
- The Toronto Blue Jays were foiled in their quest for a fourth straight win on Tuesday night — dropping a 7-5 decision to the visiting Boston Red Sox.
- Hamilton council backs West Harbour stadium
- Hamilton city council has voted in favour of building a controversial new stadium at a downtown site, but it's unclear who will be using it.
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