News/Canada/New Brunswick (Page 7)

Premier Susan Holt says her government will launch a transparent scientific investigation by early next year, with help from the federal government, into the mystery brain illness a Moncton neurologist claims is now affecting hundreds of New Brunswickers and people from six other provinces. Whether the illness is new or not has been a long-standingContinue Reading

New Brunswick Authorities in Fredericton are instituting new safety measures downtown, such as expanding the Community Safety Services Unit and increasing the presence of police and firefighters overnight, following complaints of increased crime. Homelessness, mental health, addiction issues affecting downtowns nationally, says head of BIA group Allyson McCormack · CBCContinue Reading

New Brunswick Susan Holt, who repeatedly emphasized her differences with the prime minister leading up to last month’s election, was on more welcoming terms Tuesday after their first official meeting in Fredericton. Susan Holt says she’s looking forward to agreements with Ottawa on school meals, pharmacare and carbon pricing JacquesContinue Reading

An opioid replacement program in downtown Fredericton will continue to operate at the River Stone Recovery Centre until March 2025 after it got a one-year extension from Health Canada, despite increased opposition to the clinic. River Stone Recover Centre is one of five federally funded sites offering opioid agonist therapy and the firstContinue Reading

New Brunswick New Brunswick’s new Liberal government has eliminated the legal restriction on public funding for procedural abortions outside hospitals. Liberal premier says next step is working on how doctors can offer the service in new locations around N.B. Jacques Poitras · CBC News · Posted: Nov 07, 2024 1:12Continue Reading

Police and Public Trust, a project of the CBC News Atlantic investigative unit, scrutinizes the largely off-limits police complaint and discipline systems across the region. Journalists are using access to information laws and, in some cases, court challenges to obtain discipline records and data. Darrell Tidd kept hearing about break-insContinue Reading

New Brunswick Researchers say tornadoes in Harvey, Sheffield areas on Friday evening were record-breaking for the province. Researchers say the province has never before seen a tornado this late in the year Savannah Awde · CBC News · Posted: Nov 03, 2024 5:33 PM EST | Last Updated: November 3Continue Reading

New Brunswick There are now five cases of measles in Zone 3, which includes Perth-Andover, Florenceville-Bristol, Woodstock, Plaster Rock, Fredericton, Boiestown, Minto and Chipman. The number of cases prompted Public Health to declare an outbreak. ‘Concern level has gone up,’ says Dr. Mark McKelvie, regional medical officer of health SamContinue Reading

New Brunswick Maureen Anderson lost both her sons to their overseas service in the Canadian Army, even if they died years later and a continent away from the hot dust and violence of the Afghanistan war. Maureen Anderson will lay a wreath at national Remembrance Day ceremony in Ottawa on Nov.Continue Reading