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Province walks back minister's suggestion to divert vaccine from slower provinces The New Brunswick government is walking back a suggestion from Health Minister Dorothy Shephard that COVID-19 vaccine doses in provinces with slow rollouts could be diverted to this province. Social Sharing
N.B. COVID-19 roundup: No new cases, province revises numbers and outbreak at Maine paper mill The province has removed four cases from the province's numbers after two cases were accounted for in another province and two were false positives. Social Sharing CBC News · Posted: Dec 20, 2020 10:44 AM AT | Last Updated: December 20, 2020 The total number of confirmed cases in the province during the pandemic now stands at 574, a drop of four from the 578 reported yesterday.(NIAID Integrated Research Facility/Reuters)
Wrong turn on way to hockey game near N.B.-Maine border leads to 2 weeks of quarantine A missed turnoff on the way to a hockey game in a small New Brunswick town near the Canada-U.S. border has led to two weeks of quarantine for two families. Social Sharing
Winnipeg Free Press JOHN WOODS / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Files Thomas Krause, who says he was allegedly pepper sprayed by Winnipeg Police Service (WPS) officer, Jeffrey Norman, in April 2019 while he was cycling in the West End without provoking the use of force. Manitoba’s system of civilian oversight of police makes it a “pointless exercise” for the independent watchdog to criminally charge officers against prosecutors’ advice, a justice source says. Manitoba’s system of civilian oversight of police makes it a "pointless exercise" for the independent watchdog to criminally charge offi...
Pembina Pipeline Corporation pleaded not-guilty in Prince George court Monday to five charges related to an oil spill on the Pine River in 2000. But lawyers from the company and Environment Canada will now have to travel to Chetwynd to see about moving the trial to Prince George or possibly Dawson Creek. Both defence lawyer James Sullivan and Crown counsel John Cliffe sought to have the eight-week trial held in a “central” location in order to make travel easier for the expected 35 to 40 witnesses. Less than five witnesses are expected to be from Chetwynd, a four-hour drive north of Pri...