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Hockey Canada won’t say what next steps have been taken – if any – after Tyler Totten, a Fredericton Junior ‘A’ Red Wings player, was charged with manslaughter in the death of a New Brunswick man in September. Photo: Fredericton Red Wings |
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| Hockey Canada won’t say what next steps have been taken – if any – after a Fredericton Junior ‘A’ Red Wings player was charged with manslaughter in the death of a New Brunswick man in September.
Tyler Totten, 19, is among four charged. Three others are jointly charged with the hockey player but cannot be identified, per the Youth Criminal Justice Act, because they are under the age of 18. A 41-year-old man was seriously assaulted in the city’s Tannery district in the early hours of Sept. 22, police reported at the time. He later died of his injuries. He has not been identified in court when Brunswick News attended.
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A map posted on the United States Geological Survey website shows the projected area where a 3.3-magnitude earthquake was felt in central New Brunswick on Sunday around 9:36 p.m. Photo: Submitted |
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Feds made errors in COVID relief to small business: AG report |
In a rush to provide emergency loans to small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government pushed out a program that doled out more than $3.5 billion to ineligible recipients, gave too much control to a single private contractor, and failed to ensure public money was not wasted, according to a new report from the auditor general. The program, reported the Toronto Star, doled out $49.1 billion in loans to almost 900,000 small businesses. In a new report tabled Monday, Auditor General Karen Hogan concluded the program moved quickly in response to the crisis, disbursing loans in a matter of days when health measures forced hundreds of thousands of businesses to shut down.
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Biden pardons his son Hunter Biden |
Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter Biden on Sunday night, a reversal for the president who repeatedly said he would not use his executive authority to pardon his son or commute his sentence. "I believe in the justice system, but as I have wrestled with this, I also believe raw politics has infected this process and it led to a miscarriage of justice — and once I made this decision this weekend, there was no sense in delaying it further," Biden said in his statement, NBC News reported. Hunter Biden was scheduled to be sentenced Dec. 12 for his conviction on federal gun charges. He also was set to be sentenced Dec. 16 in a separate criminal case in which he pleaded guilty to federal tax evasion charges in September.
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Canada Post presents union with 'framework' to reach deal |
Canada Post has presented the union representing some 55,000 striking postal workers with a framework to reach negotiated agreements, the corporation said. A statement issued Sunday said the framework includes proposals to bring greater flexibility to the Crown corporation’s delivery model and shows "movement on other key issues" in the labour dispute, reported The Canadian Press. "It is our hope that these proposals will reignite discussions and, together with the support of mediators, help the parties work toward final agreements," said the statement, which was provided to the media over email.
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Across the 27 illicit samples tested for pesticides, 31 different pest control products were found above the Health Canada limits, with some testing orders of magnitude above the limit. For example, (one product tested) had myclobutanil (a chemical used as a fungicide) present at ... more than 3000 times above the Health Canada (limit). |
Research and Productivity Council study |
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Cannabis NB has launched another salvo at New Brunswick's marijuana black market, saying a study shows that what's being sold illegally often contains "chemical contaminants," including pesticides.
The focus of the study, conducted by the Research and Productivity Council, was on vape cartridges. Thirty-one black-market weed products - 24 vape cartridge and extract products, three flower samples, and four edible samples - were tested, as were 10 legal vape pens.
"None of the legal vape samples had pesticides detected at the Health Canada limits," the study reads. "The majority of illicit extract and flower products tested had pesticides detected above Health Canada limits, in some cases three orders of magnitude above the limit." Also, most of the THC claims made on illegal vape pens weren't true. |
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Former lieutenant governor Graydon Nicholas, right and Child and Youth Advocate Kelly Lamrock say more needs to be done to address youth mental health in Indigenous communities. Photo: John Chilibeck/Brunswick News |
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