Just
another promise he made to get elected. That's what one Liberal Health
Critic is calling the Alward government's failure to get the Saint John
Regional Hospital a 3T MRI.
Donald
Arsenault tells Tide News that was a commitment Premier David Alward
made to the community and is now just another addition to a long list of
broken promises. He says he wants to know where Alward stands on the
issue now.
The
city's medical professionals seem to want the 3T version, while the
Horizon Health Network has come out against it. Arsenault says they'll
see what position Health Minister Ted Flemming takes and go from there.
A new
telemarketing scam is making the rounds. The Saint John Police Force
Fraud Section warns people are receiving calls stating that they have
won anywhere from 10,000 to 100,000 bonus Air Miles.
They are
then asked to provide personal information like a credit card number.
Air Miles has debunked the scam as a fake saying they never use
automated messages.
You can visit the Canadian Antifraud Centre's website at here to learn more about what steps you should take to avoid becoming a victim of telemarketingand automated telephone schemes.
We need
to be proactive instead of reactive when it comes to flooding. That from
MLA for Charlotte-The Isles, Rick Doucet who isn't happy his idea to
establish a committee on flood damage control was shot down by Premier
David Alward.
He tells Tide News the government's Regional Emergency Management Coordinators
network only deals with flooding after-the-fact. He says we have to get
into a proactive stage and get out in front of these things because
they're going to be happening more and more frequently.
Doucet says we're losing an opportunity to open up some dialogue on a topic that's impacting all New Brunswickers.
The New
Brunswick Roadbuilders Association is not discouraged by the response of
the Transportation Minister to spending more money on roads around the
province. Claude Williams warns money is tight.
Tom
McGinn is the Association's Executive-Director. He says the idea is to
spend a bit today, then avoid being faced with a more serious problem
that will require more money down the line.
McGinn also warns many of the people who work on the roads have gone out west to the point where there's a labour shortage.
The
patient who's suffering from a potentially highly contagious type of
tuberculosis and remains hospitalized at the Dr. Georges Dumont Hospital
is a business faculty student at the University of Moncton who was on
hand for the first week of classes.
Medical authorities indicate the student’s condition is getting better and are optimistic the risk of infection is low.
They're also confident only those people who had close contact with the affected student are at risk of infection.
The
university is establishing a list of those who could have potentially
been in contact with the student, including other students, professors
and all other staff members.
Over the
next few days, health professionals will be present in the classes in
which the affected student would have been present during the
contamination period in order to answer questions that may arise.
It's a crime that shocked the community at a place you might not expect to see violence.
Cochrane's Country Market in Rothesay was robbed in the early morning hours of July 16th and two employees were tied up.
Arrests were made by Rothesay Regional Police in early August.
Stephen
Corey Richard and Blake Andrew Smith pleading guilty in court and will
be sentenced October 4th. Both are in their late 20's.
47 year old Keith Oliver Dixon also pleading guilty at an earlier court appearance and will be sentenced next month as well.
Thunder Bay's Outpost bar is the first in Canada to offer pregnancy tests in their bathroom dispensers.
The purpose is to help prevent Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder.
The initiative at Lakehead University starts today and they hope to have more bars get on board and offer pregnancy tests.
