It's April Fool's Day, and
everyone is getting in on the practical jokes-- even politicians.
A news
release from the NDP arriving in our inbox overnight spoke of the expulsion of
NDP leader Dominic Cardy and Kelly Lamrock, touting it as the final step
following an unprincipled public attack upon the party and the building of
socialism.
The release also speaks of how socialism has defeated Cardy
and Lamrock as it defeated other petty bourgeois tendencies in the revolutionary
movement.
Another prank unfolding on Twitter had a stadium going up on
Partridge Island generating outrage from a few who got fooled. saying it was
heritage site and should be protected. It even includes a picture of how it
might look adding to the legitimacy.
Graeme Stewart-Robinson has admitted
it was his idea describing it as the least controversial of his photo-shopped
April Fool's Day ideas.
Last month, vandals at KVHS
removed a pipe from below the sink and soap dispensers in one of the school's
washrooms, which meant the washroom had to be closed for repairs.
Shortly after that, a concerned parent--who does not wish to be
named--wrote a formal complaint stating that requiring kids to use a single
washroom is unhygienic and unfair.
Superintendent Zoe Watson tells Tide
News they have their facts incorrect, because at no point were students force to
use a single washroom, and the facilities were only closed for the length of
time it took to make the repairs.
Watson says whenever there's a water
or health and safety issue the school treats it extremely seriously.
It's still an ugly weather
situation for many today and to bear without power is even
worse.
More
than 19,000 NB Power customers are off the grid today after another ice
storm.
Bouctouche, Moncton and
Shediac are the hardest hit regions but closer to home more than 1100 homes and
businesses are without power in Lepreau today.
Saint John Energy is
sending crews to help their counterparts in Moncton restore power.
The
Red Cross is offering help here and in PEI. Warming centres have been set
up in Bouctouche, Barachois and Shediac.
There are reports today that
some people may not get there power back until Saturday.
For more info on
the latest outages, click here
It may still be a little while
before the daffodils start blooming in the garden--but the bright spring flowers
are still showing up all over Charlotte County as part of the Canadian Cancer
Society's annual fundraiser.
Jill Russell of the Canadian Cancer Society
says the campaign goes all month with flowers and pins being sold in local
grocery stores, banks and other pubic spaces.
If you're not a fan of
flowers, daffodil pins are also a great way to show your support for cancer
patients and their families. For more information, click here
Horizon Health's lawyers have
withdrawn their request for standing at the Serena Perry inquest.
Two
doctors are still seeking legal standing but, they do not represent the province
or Horizon.
Negotiations are ongoing to determine how the inquest will
proceed.
Health Minister Ted Flemming and the Perry family want the
inquest to start as soon as possible.
You'll have to pay more for that
12 pack of beer as the price has gone up by 50 cents.
Over the past six years, the
price of bottled, canned and kegged beer in the province has increased by an
average of 11.7 per cent per litre while, correspondingly, the number of litres
sold has fallen by more than 8 per cent.
That slow moving Nor-easter is
continuing to make life miserable in the Maritimes with more than 18 thousand
homes and businesses without power around the province, most are in Moncton,
Shediac and Buctouche. There are just isolated power
outages in the Rothesay region at Browns Flat, on the Kington Peninsula and
Lower Greenwich. Just under a hundred homes and
businesses were without power this morning in the Sussex area, primarily in
Bloomfield and Springfield. In Fredericton, 48 centimeters of
snow fell from from the weekend through yesterday. By contrast, Saint John has
had ten centimeters.
