Moose
season runs from next Thursday until Saturday--and with over 4600
licenses being given out this year, the Department of Natural Resources
has set up a number of new registration stations so that hunters can get
their moose registered quickly.
The new private moose
registration stations are in Neguac, Saint-Paul, Tay Creek,
Saint- Léonard, Edmundston, and nearby McAdam. Moose can also be registered at 17
department offices throughout the province. Time is of the essence to
get moose to a butcher shop after they are shot for safety reasons and
it's hoped the new stations will cut the wait time.
A change
in the moose hunting rules is also making it possible for a previously
chosen hunter to be issued a moose license in the event of the death of
the primary license holder before moose season. The change will come
into effect in time for this fall's hunt.
The New
Brunswick RCMP's Internet Child Exploitation (ICE) Unit are turning to
social media to track down a man wanted in an investigation into a
sexual assault against a child and the production of child pornography.
The
unit has released picture captured from a video in which a man is
abusing a girl approximately 3 years old. The video first appeared on
the Internet in 2005, and since then police agencies across North
America have attempted to identify the man and victim. The video is
thought to have been made somewhere in North America and the girl is
likely between 10 and 12 years of age today.
The man is described as Caucasian, approximately 180 to 200 pounds, with
brown hair. He has a distinctive dark circular mark on his right forearm and a
ring on his left hand.
The video came to the attention of the New Brunswick RCMP during an unrelated investigation.
The information tour across the province by the Pension Coalition continues with another stop in St. Stephen this afternoon.
Provincial
retirees do not like a proposal by the Alward to switch their pension
plan from defined benefits to a shared risk model.
Clifford
Kennedy tells Tide News they have been talking with government and now
they need direction from the retirees on what to do next.
He
says they had an actuary and they retained a lawyer so they want to
update the retirees on what they have been doing for the last six
months.
The Pension Coalition meeting is coming up today at 2pm at the St. Stephen Legion, 43 Queen Street.
A teenager charged in connection with the attempted robbery of a Tim Hortons on the weekend pleading guilty.
Just after 3am on Sunday morning, 19-year old Jacob Michael Byers came into the coffee shop on Landsdowne Avenue in Saint John.
As he
walked towards the counter, he put his hand in his hoodie so it looked
like a weapon and said "Gimme the money from the till...all of it."
When staff told him they didn't have a key, he took off.
He was later arrested at a traffic stop. The woman driving the vehicle was detained.
Byers will make his next court appearance on October 23.
We
always say our kids are our future, but it's time to put our money where
our mouth is: that from Mariner Partners CEO Gerry Pond who was
recently honored for his contributions to education in the region.
He
explains New Brunswick, like a lot of places, is in a period of
challenge at the moment and we need to look to our schools to get us out
of it.
Pond further explained we need to crush the silos and stop bickering about the wrong things in order to move ahead.
A New Brunswick dietician wants to erase the stigma surrounding breastfeeding in public.
Giselle
Powell of Horizon Health says they're piloting their Breastfeeding
Friendly Community project in Quispamsis and they're hoping to roll it
out in other municipalities as well.
Powell
tells Tide News, as it stands, many women don't feel comfortable
breastfeeding their child when they're out of the house. She says moms
should be able to breastfeed in the food court, at sports games,
anywhere they want to.
The first week of October is Breastfeeding Week in Canada.
Finance Minister Blaine Higgs says a financial update is coming.
He
says the government is waiting for the auditor general's office to
finish with the first quarter results and the fiscal year end results.
Higgs
tells Tide News the department's are doing well controlling expenses
and staying on budget adding last year was the first in 11 years under
the previous year's spending.
Higgs says revenue has dipped again and they expects those financial results to be released by the end of the month.
An
elementary school in Fredericton is going to be the first of its kind in
Atlantic Canada to launch an initiative teaching students about rights
and respect.
The
program was created by UNICEF and is called Rights Respecting Schools.
It's been adopted by Park Street Elementary on the North side of
Fredericton.
The
province's Child & Youth Advocate Norman Bosse tells Tide News
changing someone's behaviour has to start at a very young age. Bosse
says this will, hopefully, create an entire generation of children who
know their rights and the rights of others and respect them. He says
they're looking at implementing a similar educational process in other
elementary schools in New Brunswick.
Bosse will be at Park Street Elementary when the initiative officially launches on Nov. 20.
The
sluggish provincial economy is causing Premier David Alward's poll
numbers to decline but he remains upbeat about the long term economic
future of New Brunswick, claiming it has never looked brighter.
The
Premier tells Tide News his government's plan to grow the provincial
economy is patterned after what was done in Saskatchewan with what he
calls the responsible development of natural resources.
Alward
points out Saskatchewan was in the same boat as New Brunswick a few
years ago but has managed to turn things around to the point where
there's now a labour shortage.
He says the energy pipeline to Saint John could open the door to other new industries springing up like petrochemicals.
