Rising Gas Prices Won't Last

A prediction from someone who should know that gas prices might still go up a bit before going down in Atlantic Canada. So says Dave Collins of Wilson Fuel.

He says speculators are driving up gas prices at the moment but a look at the futures market for gasoline shows a drop coming with the August price expected to be seven cents lower.

Gas prices are at a six year high.

Regional Hospital Hoping To Get Advanced M-R-I Machine

The Saint John Regional Hospital Foundation is pretty excited to hear the province is looking at 3T MRI's possibly for Saint John.

The Foundation's President and CEO Tim Cameron says there is a case for the technology at the Regional hospital because it's a tertiary care centre.Cameron tells CHSJ News says they had fears along the way that the government might ask them to contribute more than a million the foundation had offered to help defray the cost.

Cameron says the 3T MRI is a highly advanced machine used for tertiary care hospitals while he describes the 1.5T MRI unit as the workhorse used in most MRI scanning.
 
The Department of Health telling CHSJ News that Saint John will be receiving a 1.5T MRI. 
 
The 3T MRI is a highly advanced machine mainly used for neuro surgery.

Saint John City Solicitor Clashes With John Ferguson's Lawyer

City Solicitor John Nugent continuing his testimony at the defamation trial of former Common Council and St. Stephen Town Administrator John Ferguson.
Defense lawyer Rod Gillis tried to get Nugent to agree that Ferguson's presentation to Common Council about alleged wrongdoing was not defamatory but Nugent maintained when taken as a whole, he found the it "outrageously defamatory."

Nugent would also not agree with Gillis that the "sweeping things under the carpet" comment was about the city and not the Pension Board.
Nugent also vehemently denied that he kept a log or diary of all of Ferguson's comments and, if anyone did, he had no knowledge of it.

Gillis also asked Nugent if he planned on suing Provincial Finance Minister Blaine Higgs for his recent gambling analogy when describing the city's investment strategy as double or nothing. Nugent told the court he was no longer on the board.

The trial resumes on Wednesday and Ferguson is expected to take the witness stand at that time.

Proposed Inter City Shuttle Bus Service Bites The Dust

A Prince Edward Island company has failed to get approval to start a door to door van shuttle service in the province.

Advanced Shuttle Services proposed to set up a reservations only shuttle service using 15-seat passenger vans but the Energy and Utilities Board rejected the application ruling the proposed service isn't covered under the province's Motor Carrier Act and didn't include a regular route.

The company was looking to run two shuttles which would make stops at the Regional Hospital and U-N-B Saint John. There also would have been stops in Fredericton, Moncton and Port Elgin.