Saint John lawyer Marco Cloutier has been named to the provincial bench.
Justice
Minister and Attorney General Marie-Claude Blais announcing today
Cloutier will join Judge Andrew LeMesurier and Judge Henrik Tonning as
full-time provincial court judges here in Saint John.
Blais says Cloutier's appointment will ensure the timely management of court cases.
Cloutier has been a lawyer in this province since 1998 and has written extensively in both English and French.
In 2010, he was recognized by Lexpert as one of Canada's Top 40 Under 40 leading lawyers.
Saint John Common Council doing an about face at a special meeting on the new shared risk pension plan.
Mayor
Mel Norton says Council will not be imposing any travel restrictions on
the new pension board so that the Saint John plan is in line with the
other provincial plans.
Norton
is confident the new trustees, whom he describes as of the highest
calibre, will act in a responsible manner when deciding on travel costs.
He adds no matter what happens with the pension plan from now on, the
city's contributions will not go up.
Only Councillor Susan Fullerton voted against.
KV & City fire crews keeping busy cleaning up the storm's path.
The
high winds and rain caused downed wires, flooded basements, wind damage
and fire alarms going off across Greater Saint John. Bayside Drive was closed after 4 broken
poles were discovered.
There were more than 20 requests for service during the height of the storm.
People are still without power in many parts of the region.
In Rothesay & Quispamsis, over 2,600 people are still without electricity. In Sussex, more than 3,400 without juice.
Only 6 people in St. Stephen are without.
Saint John Energy is not reporting any outages on their website.
About a dozen people, including a family of 4, taking shelter at the Qplex in Quispamsis overnight.
The town is offering the centre as a warm spot for residents without power to stay.
Aaron
Kennedy from the Qplex says there's just short of a 1,000 people without
power and the traffic lights are out by the Esso/Tim Hortons at Exit
141.
The Qplex will still be taking in residents until 5pm tonight. At that time they'll check on the power status with NB Power.
