Moose
season runs from next Thursday until Saturday--and with over 4600
licenses being given out this year, the Department of Natural Resources
has set up a number of new registration stations so that hunters can get
their moose registered quickly.
The new private moose
registration stations are in Neguac, Saint-Paul, Tay Creek,
Saint- Léonard, Edmundston, and nearby McAdam. Moose can also be registered at 17
department offices throughout the province. Time is of the essence to
get moose to a butcher shop after they are shot for safety reasons and
it's hoped the new stations will cut the wait time.
A change
in the moose hunting rules is also making it possible for a previously
chosen hunter to be issued a moose license in the event of the death of
the primary license holder before moose season. The change will come
into effect in time for this fall's hunt.
The New
Brunswick RCMP's Internet Child Exploitation (ICE) Unit are turning to
social media to track down a man wanted in an investigation into a
sexual assault against a child and the production of child pornography.
The
unit has released picture captured from a video in which a man is
abusing a girl approximately 3 years old. The video first appeared on
the Internet in 2005, and since then police agencies across North
America have attempted to identify the man and victim. The video is
thought to have been made somewhere in North America and the girl is
likely between 10 and 12 years of age today.
The man is described as Caucasian, approximately 180 to 200 pounds, with
brown hair. He has a distinctive dark circular mark on his right forearm and a
ring on his left hand.
The video came to the attention of the New Brunswick RCMP during an unrelated investigation.
The information tour across the province by the Pension Coalition continues with another stop in St. Stephen this afternoon.
Provincial
retirees do not like a proposal by the Alward to switch their pension
plan from defined benefits to a shared risk model.
Clifford
Kennedy tells Tide News they have been talking with government and now
they need direction from the retirees on what to do next.
He
says they had an actuary and they retained a lawyer so they want to
update the retirees on what they have been doing for the last six
months.
The Pension Coalition meeting is coming up today at 2pm at the St. Stephen Legion, 43 Queen Street.
A teenager charged in connection with the attempted robbery of a Tim Hortons on the weekend pleading guilty.
Just after 3am on Sunday morning, 19-year old Jacob Michael Byers came into the coffee shop on Landsdowne Avenue in Saint John.
As he
walked towards the counter, he put his hand in his hoodie so it looked
like a weapon and said "Gimme the money from the till...all of it."
When staff told him they didn't have a key, he took off.
He was later arrested at a traffic stop. The woman driving the vehicle was detained.
Byers will make his next court appearance on October 23.
We
always say our kids are our future, but it's time to put our money where
our mouth is: that from Mariner Partners CEO Gerry Pond who was
recently honored for his contributions to education in the region.
He
explains New Brunswick, like a lot of places, is in a period of
challenge at the moment and we need to look to our schools to get us out
of it.
Pond further explained we need to crush the silos and stop bickering about the wrong things in order to move ahead.
A New Brunswick dietician wants to erase the stigma surrounding breastfeeding in public.
Giselle
Powell of Horizon Health says they're piloting their Breastfeeding
Friendly Community project in Quispamsis and they're hoping to roll it
out in other municipalities as well.
Powell
tells Tide News, as it stands, many women don't feel comfortable
breastfeeding their child when they're out of the house. She says moms
should be able to breastfeed in the food court, at sports games,
anywhere they want to.
The first week of October is Breastfeeding Week in Canada.
Finance Minister Blaine Higgs says a financial update is coming.
He
says the government is waiting for the auditor general's office to
finish with the first quarter results and the fiscal year end results.
Higgs
tells Tide News the department's are doing well controlling expenses
and staying on budget adding last year was the first in 11 years under
the previous year's spending.
Higgs says revenue has dipped again and they expects those financial results to be released by the end of the month.
An
elementary school in Fredericton is going to be the first of its kind in
Atlantic Canada to launch an initiative teaching students about rights
and respect.
The
program was created by UNICEF and is called Rights Respecting Schools.
It's been adopted by Park Street Elementary on the North side of
Fredericton.
The
province's Child & Youth Advocate Norman Bosse tells Tide News
changing someone's behaviour has to start at a very young age. Bosse
says this will, hopefully, create an entire generation of children who
know their rights and the rights of others and respect them. He says
they're looking at implementing a similar educational process in other
elementary schools in New Brunswick.
Bosse will be at Park Street Elementary when the initiative officially launches on Nov. 20.
The
sluggish provincial economy is causing Premier David Alward's poll
numbers to decline but he remains upbeat about the long term economic
future of New Brunswick, claiming it has never looked brighter.
The
Premier tells Tide News his government's plan to grow the provincial
economy is patterned after what was done in Saskatchewan with what he
calls the responsible development of natural resources.
Alward
points out Saskatchewan was in the same boat as New Brunswick a few
years ago but has managed to turn things around to the point where
there's now a labour shortage.
He says the energy pipeline to Saint John could open the door to other new industries springing up like petrochemicals.
A woman who survived a bout of breast cancer is now teaching a class on the exercise that helped her on her road to recovery.
In 2002,
Mary Eliza Humphries was diagnosed with breast cancer and a nurse
suggested she take an exercise program. She was eventually led to yoga.
She tells Tide News it made her feel like a whole person for the first
time since she started her treatment and she wanted to share that
feeling with others.
She's
now the instructor for the Survivorship Yoga program for survivors of
cancer and those undergoing treatment, and says she hopes to expand the
program to Saint John in January.
To
register for the program, call 847-2210, e-mail
survivorshipyoga@gmail.com, or simply drop by a Sunday class at 6pm at
the qplex in Quispamsis. The first class is this evening.
After
Salesforce cut 200 jobs at the end of August, some in Saint John were
left wondering whether the government should continue subsidizing
businesses that just wind up laying people off.
Mariner
Chairman Gerry Pond has a different perspective on the Radian6 layoffs,
he tells Tide News the company grew rapidly, perhaps a little too
rapidly, but it's not entirely a bad news story.
He was
involved in Radian6 back in the very beginning and says when Radian6 was
purchased, they went from zero employees to something in the range of
450. While some were laid off, he says there's still over 400 people
employed.
Pond
says the government shouldn't be getting a bad rep for subsidizing such
businesses when overall they're still creating jobs. But it's worth
noting Pond's company, Mariner, is getting a payroll rebate of
750-thousand bucks for an upcoming expansion.
Saint John Police are investigating a robbery.
It was reported around 3:15 this morning on Lansdowne Avenue in the north end.
No other details have been released.
Marc Fortner of Fredericton took the bronze medal in judo at the Francophonie Games in Nice, France.
Fortner’s
medal brought to six the number of matches won by the Team Canada – New
Brunswick, equaling its best performance, achieved during the games in
Madagascar in 1997.
You'll soon be able to settle into your golden years in an assisted living facility for seniors in Rothesay.
The town
moving into a development agreement to build a long-term care facility
on Donald Road. It will be the fourth location for McNair Manor, two of
them are in Moncton and the other is in Riverview.
Mayor
Bill Bishop says it's a great facility that's not currently provided in
the town of Rothesay. David McNair of McNair Manor says he expects to
the complex to be operational by the Spring of 2014.
Saint John police investigating a robbery in the North end.
It happened just after 3 in the morning on Lansdowne Avenue in the city's north end.
No other details have been released.
A number of passengers on board the Aurora being quarantined because of a virus.
John
McCann of Port Saint John tells Tide News some people on the cruise ship
have a gastrointestinal virus and he's unsure of how many people are
affected, or of the cause.
McCann
says passengers showing symptoms were examined by medical staff on the
cruise ship. Usually, those who needed to be isolated are asked to stay
in their cabins and are monitored by cruise ship personnel.
McCann
says his understanding is that it's a very low risk to public
health.There have been no medical evacuations and the other passengers
have been cleared to leave the ship. He says otherwise, it's business as
usual.
The Aurora leaves Saint John today.
Marc Fortner of Fredericton took the bronze medal in judo at the Francophonie Games in Nice, France.
Fortner’s
medal brought to six the number of matches won by the Team Canada – New
Brunswick, equalling its best performance, achieved during the games in
Madagascar in 1997.
An elderly man taken to hospital after his four-wheel scooter tipped over in a driveway on the West side of Saint John.
Emergency
crews hearing that the man in his eighties was not conscious and not
breathing. However, City Police say when they arrived on the scene on
Russell Hill Road he was breathing.
No word yet on injuries.
Ever
wonder where the food in your fridge came from? That seems to be a
question people are asking more and more these days, and on Open Farm
Day, you can find out for yourself by going straight to the source.
The
Executive Director of the Atlantic Canada Fish Farmers Association,
Pamela Parker, tells Tide News they're giving people the opportunity to
check out how salmon farming works through boat tours on Sunday.
She says
many people don't realize that salmon is the province's biggest
agriculture-based export. Salmon farming employs 3000 people across the
region, and almost 20% of Charlotte County's entire workforce.
The
tours leave the main wharf in St. Andrews at noon and 2:15pm, weather
permitting. Proceeds from the tour go to the Heart and Stroke
foundation.
Click here for a list of all farms in the province participating in Open Farm Day.
While the number of days houses sit unsold in the Port City continues to climb, the President of the Real Estate Board is feeling positive about the housing market overall.
Jason Stephen tells Tide News
the market is enjoying a four month long stretch of growth as compared
to last year. And with the numbers staying pretty much on par with last
year's, it's what they would call stable.
Stephen says there's not as many listings this year, which is helping people who are trying to sell their homes. He says he feels good about the number of sold signs popping up in Saint John.
