After
stealing morphine, oxycodone, percocet and other types of drugs from the
Regional Hospital, Erin Munn says she wants to make things right.
The
woman pleading guilty in provincial court to taking drugs from the
hospital's surgery department this summer while she was working as a
cleaner in the building. Munn was caught after a surveillance camera was
installed near the cabinets.
She says she has written a letter
to the hospital and wants to get back on track. Her employer has hired
her back on and the Crown says she's taking steps to get help for her
pill addiction. The judge giving her a six-month conditional sentence
saying rehabilitation is the key here.
The jury at the Ashley Smith inquest in Toronto ruling her death was the result of a homicide.
The
Moncton teen died in her prison cell in Kitchener, Ontario in 2007. She
choked to death of pieces of material after jail guards were told not
to rush and help her.
Among its many recommendations, the jury is
recommending that indefinite solitary confinement be abolished and
until that happens, they suggest it be restricted to a maximum of 15
days.
Another recommendation is for Smith's story to be used a
case study for front line workers at the Correctional Service of Canada.
For
nearly a year, the jury has been listening to thousands of hours of
testimony and reviewing hundreds of exhibits of Smith's time in federal
prison.
Next year's provincial vote is a big undertaking and the work is already underway at Elections NB.
Chief
Electoral Officer Mike Quinn tells Tide News says during the last vote
they began a pilot project with full returning offices on campuses in
Fredericton, Saint John, Moncton, and Edmunston.
He says they are
looking at ways of changing that service around and make it better so
that students get to vote all through the election.
Quinn says
they are preparing the new polling division map because of the riding
changes shrinking the number of ridings from 55 to 49.
Tide News has been told by Provincial Health Minister Ted Flemming it appears
the healthcare budget is heading for a 26 million dollar surplus.
Flemming
says this turnaround would not have happened had the culture within the
healthcare system not been changed and this change has been embraced by
the people working in healthcare after years of political interference
and bad decision making as a result.
He also
says the healthcare budget next year will not be going up from this year
and the government has achieved this without touching clinical
services.
A 21-year-old man from Rexton, New Brunswick is facing 19 charges, after his actions during shale gas protests.
Germain
Breau was arrested in October and has been in custoday ever since. RCMP
say he was arrested after police were trying to control a dangerous
situation involving firearms, improvised explosive devices and other
weapons.
Some
of the charges against him include, careless use of a firearm, pointing
a firearm at a police officer, obstructing a police officer and
violating a probation order.
Yesterday, 15 more charges were laid against him at Moncton Provincial Court, and he will be back in court tomorrow.
The Alward Government's bottom line getting a big boost with a five per cent increase in transfer payments from Ottawa.
Federal transfers will rise next year to over 2.6 billion dollars which comprises one-third of the provincial budget.
Saint
John M-P Rodney Weston blames the previous Liberal Government under
Premier Shawn Graham, in large part, for a financial mess by spending
more money than it took in, driving up the debt.
Weston
concedes the province still finds itself in a difficult financial
situation in spite of higher federal transfer payments, adding he
doesn't envy the challenge faced by Provincial Finance Minister Blaine
Higgs.
After
two months behind bars, a 47-year old man arrested during the violent
clash between RCMP and shale gas protestors near Rexton has been
released from jail.
47-year old James Pictou of
Saint-André-de-Madawaska being sentenced to time served as he was in
custody since his arrest on October 17.
Pictou
pleading guilty to seven charges stemming from incidents on the
Elispogtog First Nation and near Rexton, including uttering a threat
towards a First Nation peacekeeper, uttering threats to kill an RCMP dog
by saying "Bring that dog, I'll kill that dog" while holding a long
peace of wood, and assaulting a police officer by pointing a can of bear
spray at him.
He will be under house arrest for there months and
under curfew for six months and is not allowed to participate in any
shale gas protests in New Brunswick. He is also being ordered to stay a
kilometre away from employees and equipment belonging to SWN Resources
and its subcontractors.
