A car crash on Highway 11 claiming the lives of a man and a woman from Quebec.
The
collision happening near Belledune around 10:30 Monday morning. The two
from Rimouski, who were traveling together in one vehicle, dying from
their injuries. The woman in the other car, from Eel River Crossing,
being taken to hospital with injuries that are not believed to be
life-threatening.
RCMP say the road conditions were poor at the
time of the crash, causing one driver to lose control of the vehicle and
collide with the other.
The
biennial convention in Saint John over the weekend of provincial
Liberals heard party leader Brian Gallant go out of his way to tie
Premier David Alward together with Prime Minister Harper.
Gallant
wonders how this relationship is benefiting the province, claiming this
close relationship between the Premier and the Prime Minister will
result in New Brunswick getting relatively less for health care,
research and skills training.
He also
calls the TV ad featuring the Premier following the announcement of the
Energy East pipeline "Harperesque" by using tax dollars to persuade
people what a good job his government is doing and how the provincial
economy is turning around. Gallant scoffs at this claim with the quip
"We turning the corner into the trenches".
The
Royal Canadian Legion getting together with the town of St. George to
fly banners complete with photos of more than 50 veterans as part of the
Remembrance Day commemoration. The Legion is now getting calls from
across the country. The banners will be given to family members.
German
war records have been researched by Dr. Marc Milner of the Gregg Centre
at U-N-B. He discovered the Germans viewed Canadian soldiers as the
crucial troops in the British Commonwealth formations leading up to
D-Day.
Dr. Milner says the Germans thought of the Canadian
soldiers during the First World War as the shock troops of the British
Empire.
He has
also found out the Germans were keeping a close eye on where the
Canadian soldiers would be and, because of this, the Canadians were
utilized as part of a grand deception to lead the enemy into mistakenly
believing the D-Day landing would be at
