Category: New Brunswick

New Brunswick Ends COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate for Most Government Employees

New Brunswick says its COVID-19 vaccine mandate will no longer be a condition of employment for civil servants come March 28. The announcement on March 18, however, does not include employees working at health facilities, Ambulance New Brunswick, corrections, and those who provide health-care services to patients residing in homes, including personal residences, special care…


Dikes to Protect NS-NB Link From Flooding Expected to Cost Hundreds of Millions

An engineering study looking at three options to save the land link between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick from climate-related flooding is pegging costs at between $189 million and just over $300 million. The study released today suggests either raising the height of the existing 35 kilometres of dikes for an estimated $200 million, building…


Parole Board Denies Release of American Who Killed New Brunswick Cop in 1987

FREDERICTON—An American who has spent nearly 35 years in prison for the murder of a New Brunswick police officer was denied full parole on Wednesday. Anthony Romeo, 58, is serving a life sentence in a New Brunswick prison for the shooting of highway patrol Const. Emmanuel Aucoin during a traffic stop in March 1987, southwest…


New Brunswick RCMP Say Missing Boy Subject of Amber Alert Found Safe

FREDERICTON—The New Brunswick RCMP say a six-year-old boy who was the subject of an Amber Alert has been found safe. Police issued the alert after the boy went missing early today in Miramichi, N.B. They said the boy was allegedly taken from his home by his mother. Police said today on Twitter the child and…


New Brunswick Latest Province to Sign Child Care Deal With Federal Government

FREDERICTON—New Brunswick has signed a child care deal with Ottawa to create 5,700 new spaces at an average cost to parents of $10 per day by 2026. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs made the announcement today. The cost of child care in the province is expected to be cut in…


New Brunswick Violates Human Rights With COVID-19 Order to Ban Unvaccinated From Groceries: JCCF

New Brunswick’s new COVID-19 measures allowing grocery stores to decide whether to give access to the unvaccinated population violates fundamental human rights, says a legal organization focused on constitutional freedoms. On Tuesday, the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedom sent a warning letter (pdf) to New Brunswick’s Minister of Justice and Public Safety Hugh Flemming in…


Trudeau Says Ottawa Withholding Health-Care Transfers to N.B. Over Abortion Access

MONCTON, N.B.—New Brunswick is failing to live up to its obligations under the Canada Health Act because it continues to make it difficult for women to access abortions, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday. As a consequence, the federal government is withholding health-care transfers to the province, Trudeau told reporters in Moncton, N.B. “Making sure…


CCP Agents Had Access to Private Information of New Brunswick Students Through Confucius Institutes

Confucius Institutes operating in New Brunswick public schools had access to students’ private information and caused grave concerns among Chinese diaspora, the province’s education minister told a Commons Committee on June 21. “We had members of the Chinese Communist Party who were working for the Confucius Institutes who had access to the databases and student…


New Brunswick Ramps up Efforts to Solve Mystery Behind Unknown Brain Disease

FREDERICTON—New Brunswick is redoubling its efforts to find the cause of a baffling neurological disease that has killed six and infected 48 others, announcing Thursday that an expert committee will lead the ongoing investigation. “The discovery of a potentially new and unknown syndrome is scary,” Health Minister Dorothy Shephard told a new conference. “I know…


Families Upset With Lack of Information About Mystery New Brunswick Brain Illness

FREDERICTON—Families who fear their loved ones are afflicted with a mysterious neurological syndrome in New Brunswick say they’re losing patience waiting for information from the health officials who are investigating. “I can appreciate that maybe the government is afraid to give too much information and scare people, but at the same time, not giving information…