Sheldon Currie News Today

Judy Leblanc

A New Brunswick provincial court judge has reduced the sentence of a Fredericton man convicted of drug trafficking after deciding that jail guards used excessive force against him while he was on remand in Saint John in September 2022.

Videos showing Saint John jail guards tackling and punching an inmate were played in court this week after Fredericton provincial court Judge Cameron Gunn rejected an application by the Office of the Attorney General to have them kept from the public.

The Reserve Mines native was given the honour for his contributions to Canadian literature, particularly for his 30 years of service as the fiction editor of The Antigonish Review.

An Antigonish County resident has been named a recipient of Canada's highest civilian honour. Writer Sheldon Currie, a native of Reserve Mines, Cape Breton has been named a member of the Order of Canada. Currie is

The opening shot of "Margarets Museum looks like a painting by Andrew Wyeth, of a little clapboard cottage in a sea of grass on a cliffside. Two visitors drive up to the "museum, and a moment later one runs from the house screaming. Then a title card takes us back "three years earlier. As openings go, this one plays as if it belongs on another film. That it doesnt gradually becomes clear. We are in the mining town of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, in the late 1940s, where the coal pits take a terrib...