Just before 8:00 a.m. on Monday,
police responded to Greenfields Drive in Fredericton after a child collapsed on
the side walk.
Paramedics took the boy to the Dr. Everett Chalmers
Hospital where is was declared deceased.
An autopsy was conducted this
morning in Saint John. It indicated nine-year-old Garrett Blois died from a
sudden cardiac event.
Out of courtesy for the family, no more
information will be released at this time.
Liberal leader Brian
Gallant received few answers today in the legislature after posing a series of
questions on the current legal woes of deputy premier Paul
Robichaud.
Attorney General Ted Flemming remarked that as a lawyer, Brian
Gallant should know not to risk prejudicing a case currently before the courts
by discussing it in the legislature, commenting that Gallant may have been
"making photocopies or getting coffee" during that portion of his "brilliant
legal career".
Gallant says he simply wanted
a clarification of a procedural questions, and rephrased the question a number
of times.
While Flemming accused Gallant of inappropriate and repetitive
questioning, Liberal MLA Victor Boudreau pointed out insulting language is also
inappropriate in the provincial legislature.
The snow we got today is nothing
compared to what is coming.
Meteorologist Claude Cote of
Environment Canada tells Tide News a Noreaster is coming our way, part of a
low pressure system that is currently in the state of Iowa, moving from the Gulf of Maine and through the Bay of Fundy.
He says it will start
around noon tomorrow as wet snow or rain.
Cote says the worst of it will
be overnight Wednesday into Thursday.
Cote says the biggest challenge will be for coastal communities because wet snow will be changing to rain -- and then back to ice pellets and freezing rain by Thursday.
He says inland Charlotte County could recieve 20+ cms of wet snow.
St. Stephen is not the only community up in arms over losing postal services -- Saint John is joining the list of
municipalities calling for continuation of door to door mail
delivery. Common Councillor John MacKenzie,
who works for Canada Post, says he's heard plenty from Saint Johnners and they
don't like the idea of community mailboxes one little bit.
Common Councillor Bill Farren
says the Federation of Canadian Municipalities is on the
case. Councillor at Large Shirley
McAlary fears more community mailboxes will translate into more jobs being lost
which is the last thing Saint John needs.
Councillor Gerry Lowe, who for
years was the union rep for local letter carriers, says they do more than just
deliver letters. They can sometimes be lifesavers by helping seniors who are
alone and find themselves in distress
With the World Women's Curling
Championship just a few days away, a program being launched to help get kids
into the spirit of the sport. New Brunswick curler Andrea
Crawford on hand for the official announcement of the program which will teach
students the fundamentals of curling, and she tells Tide News it's important to
engage youth in the sport early on.The Irving Oil-sponsored program
will teach more than 2500 students between grades three and five throughout
southern New Brunswick of curling leading up to and during the championships
which start this Saturday in Saint John.
A 30 year old man remains in jail
after an incident involving a weapon on Campobello Island.
RCMP got a
complaint Sunday night about a fight involving four men at Wilson's Beach.
Police were told a gun was pointed and fired but no one was hurt.
Matthew
Ray Dwayne Stanley of Campobello Island was charged with uttering threats to
cause death.
If you know anything about this crime, contact the RCMP at
506-755-1130 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.
A slew of traffic accidents
happening after 8:30 this morning as road conditions worsened with the latest
snow we're getting. Emergency crews in Saint John were called out
to at least three accidents in less than half an hour including a car striking
the guardrail going westbound on the highway at the Rothesay Avenue overpass, a
car colliding with a hydro pole at McDonald Street and Park Avenue near Loch
Lomand mall along with and a rollover along the
highway. No serious injuries have been reported. Back home in Charlotte County, a schoolbus
left the road on Highway 1 by the Frye Road. There were no students on board and
the driver is fine.
