(NB-Energy)
New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt says the province will be undertaking a review of the province’s Crown-owned electric utility.
Holt says the independent and comprehensive review of N-B Power will be conducted by a panel of three people — who will gather and analyze data, seek public feedback and develop recommendations for the utility’s future.
The premier says all options will be considered for the utility and its operations because with soaring power bills for customers, “the status quo is no longer an option.”
A public engagement as part of the review is expected to begin in June.
(The Canadian Press)
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(NB-University-Funds)
New Brunswick government says it will be giving the Université de Moncton and the University of New Brunswick 1.1-million dollars to support student housing plans.
The funding will support the feasibility studies, conceptual design work, costing and planning at their campuses around the province.
U-N-B president and vice-chancellor Paul J. Mazerolle says the funds will help the school find the best ways to create viable and affordable student housing.
(The Canadian Press)
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(NS-Stampede-Funding)
Nova Scotia’s government says it wants to build on the success of last year’s inaugural stampede by putting 150-thousand dollars towards the 2025 event.
It will also put 550-thousand dollars towards new portable bleachers at the Nova Scotia Provincial Exhibition grounds in Bible Hill.
The first Nova Scotia Stampede combined professional rodeo, live entertainment and local vendors last September.
The stampede generated some 2.2-million dollars in economic activity for the province.
(The Canadian Press)
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(NL-Mental-Health-Centre)
The Newfoundland and Labrador Government has announced the opening of a new Mental Health and Addictions Centre.
Complete with modern equipment and facilities, the new treatment centre will replace the 170-year-old Waterford Hospital.
The centre features individual in-patient rooms, shared recreation spaces, outdoor terraces and upgraded counselling and therapy spaces.
The province says the new space has 102 beds to help compliment other mental health and addictions facilities.
(The Canadian Press)
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(NL-SCOC-COVID-Travel)
The British Columbia Civil Liberties Association is intervening in a Supreme Court of Canada case examining the constitutionality of Newfoundland and Labrador’s COVID-19 pandemic travel restrictions.
The case began in 2020 after Nova Scotia resident Kimberley Taylor couldn’t attend her mother’s funeral in Newfoundland because she was denied an exemption to a public health order banning all non-residents from entering the province.
The Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador ruled that the order violated Taylor’s constitutional right to travel anywhere in Canada, but that the circumstances of the pandemic justified that Charter infringement.
The B-C association says it will argue the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms protects permanent residents’ right to move between and within provinces, just as it does for citizens.
(The Canadian Press)
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(NL-Unlawful-Confinement)
Newfoundland R-C-M-P says 36-year-old man has been arrested for unlawful confinement, assault and other offences in Bay St. George.
Mounties say they received a report of a residential disturbance at a home in Stephenville where a man was being held against his will by another man who had a gun.
Police attended the home where the man was arrested without incident.
They say he is charged with assault with a weapon, possession of a weapon for a dangerous purposes, forcible confinement and failure to comply with a release order.
(The Canadian Press)
