News/Canada/New Brunswick (Page 11)

New Brunswick A random phone call from an art-lover in New Brunswick was all it took to finally solve the mystery of a missing painting for Julia Veenstra. A weeks-long search for a painting lost between Ontario and B.C finally turned up at an N.B. auction house Rebekah Houter ·Continue Reading

For three days, Lesa Lowery says she could do nothing but watch as a fraudster impersonated her on Facebook, swindling her friends out of thousands of dollars for goods that didn’t exist. The entire time Meta — the company behind the social media site that has billions of users worldwideContinue Reading

New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs has said he will ban a Quebec-based sex education group from presenting at schools in New Brunswick after a presentation he believes was “clearly inappropriate.” Organization disputes suggestion that material delivered was outside curriculum Savannah Awde · CBC News · Posted: May 26, 2024 10:37Continue Reading

New Brunswick A northeast New Brunswick Liberal MP is joining the Maritime Fishermen’s Union in calling for a better balance between protecting endangered North Atlantic right whales and allowing commercial fishing operations. Acadie-Bathurst MP Serge Cormier says he can no longer defend his government on the issue North Atlantic rightContinue Reading

Arthur Irving, the hard-charging New Brunswick billionaire who ran Canada’s largest oil refinery, has died at the age of 93.  For decades, Arthur Irving ran Irving Oil, including its Saint John refinery. He became famous for his obsession with customer service, especially his unannounced visits to check the cleanliness ofContinue Reading

New Brunswick The federal government plans to stop supplying provinces and territories with free COVID-19 rapid tests, which has an infection control epidemiologist worried about two-tiered health care, increased spread and increased health-care costs. No plans to replenish inventory, set to expire in December, says Health Canada ‘Rapid test programmingContinue Reading

New Brunswick Sabrina and Dave Durepos will be inducted into the Wheelchair Basketball Canada Hall of Fame Saturday night. The multi-medal winning athletes shared memories of their first times playing the sport. Sabrina and Dave Durepos are Wheelchair Basketball Canada Hall of Fame inductees Hannah Rudderham · CBC News ·Continue Reading

Luxury-hotel stays during an unpublicized trip to London and Paris and a personal move from Quispamsis to Fredericton helped deputy tourism minister Yennah Hurley, the former adviser to Premier Blaine Higgs, amass $77,710 in expenses in 2023.    It’s the largest amount claimed by a senior official in the New Brunswick government forContinue Reading

New Brunswick The owner of a sailboat that sank in the St. John River has until the end of the month to get it out of the water, according to a deadline set by Transport Canada.  Owner has until end of month to remove it, previous owner heartbroken over demiseContinue Reading