A heads up to drivers planning on crossing the border.
The
Milltown International Bridge temporarily closed to
traffic coming into the province today and tomorrow between 8am 1pm.
Regular service starts back up at 1pm each day.
Drivers are
encouraged to use the St. Stephen Third Bridge or the St. Stephen Ferry
Point International Bridge as alternate routes in the meantime. The
closure is because of construction in the US.
Progress
is being made but more has to be done to ensure young people with
mental disorders in the province get the treatment they need. That claim
being made by Maureen Bilerman of Dots NB who became an activist when
her own teenage daughter ran into trouble getting the help she needed.
Bilerman
tells Tide News the early intervention being done at schools in
Charlotte County and the Acadian Peninsula is producing, in her words,
some amazing results.
Bilerman
uses Ashley Smith as her touchstone and, if she were here today, would
the mental health treatment be there to make a difference in her life
and avoid a tragic end.
The 19
year old Smith choked herself to death while jailed in Kitchener,
Ontario. Her death is now the subject of an inquest in Toronto.
New
Brunswick is missing the boat when it comes to funding clean energy
projects according to Mark D'Arcy of the Council of Canadians.
He tells
Tide News the provincial government could create jobs by following the
lead of other jurisdictions in giving tax credits for investing in such
things as a community economic development fund and co-ops along with
payback loan programmes for residential energy retrofits to make your
home more energy efficient.
D'Arcy
says this is happening right now in Nova Scotia, P-E-I, Ontario,
Vermont, Massachusetts, Germany and Scandanavia but not in New
Brunswick.
