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Communication during Bocabec wildfire ‘challenging’: report
An after-action report released by the New Brunswick Emergency Measures Organizations said communication during the Stein Lake wildfire near Saint Andrews in 2023 was challenging. The wildfire burned more than 500 hectares, surpassing the province’s 10-year average and was started by an ATV that caught fire, according to Saint Andrews fire chief Kevin Theriault. An…
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SDG Rural Education Committee looks at rural school funding
Phillip BlancherLocal Journalism Initiative Reporter CORNWALL – Rural schools in SDG Counties are receiving specific provincial funding, and the Rural Education Committee wants to know what that funding is and how it is used. Members of the Rural Education Committee, an SDG Counties council committee formed in 2022, discussed the provincial Rural and Northern Education…
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RVH moving forward with positive changes following investigation
Renfrew – The investigation into financial impropriety at Renfrew Victoria Hospital (RVH) has brought on positive changes to avoid future issues, including reunifying Renfrew Health (RH) with all hospital funds returned to RVH and assets to be transferred there, installing a new senior management team and new CEO, bringing in a “whistleblower” system and establishing…
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Newfoundland’s 164 year old jail has been without dentist for months, inmate says
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — An inmate at Newfoundland and Labrador’s largest jail says the facility has been unable to offer dental services for at least five months. Jesse Lewis says staffing shortages at the jail led the previous dentist to abandon the work because there were too many cancelled appointments when no guards were available…
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Transparency Fosters Trust
Freedom-of-information or access-to-information laws are not something that the average person thinks about every day, but they are a part of laws in every province and territory in the country and are designed to give people the right to obtain records from public institutions. Having access to the information they need to make informed decisions…
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Facebook parent Meta sues the FTC claiming ‘unconstitutional authority’ in child privacy case
MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) — The parent company of Instagram and Facebook has sued the Federal Trade Commission in an attempt to stop the agency from reopening a 2020 privacy settlement with the company that would prohibit it from profiting from data it collects on users under 18. In a lawsuit filed late Wednesday in federal court…
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Transparency Fosters Trust
Freedom-of-information or access-to-information laws are not something that the average person thinks about every day, but they are a part of laws in every province and territory in the country and are designed to give people the right to obtain records from public institutions. Having access to the information they need to make informed decisions…
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Charges dismissed against 3 emergency management supervisors in 2020 death
WAYNESBURG, Pa. (AP) — A judge has dismissed all charges against three western Pennsylvania emergency management supervisors who had been accused of obstructing an investigation into an emergency dispatcher accused of failing to send an ambulance to the rural home of a woman who died of internal bleeding about a day later. Senior Judge Katherine…
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Lawyer for pharma company argues against single trial in B.C. opioid damages case
VANCOUVER — Holding a single trial in British Columbia to determine damages for each province and territory related to opioid health-care costs would be a “monster of complexity,” one of the dozens of lawyers for pharmaceutical firms told a court on Wednesday. Gordon McKee, a lawyer for Janssen Inc. and Johnson & Johnson, told the…
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Ontario releases ‘business case’ for moving science centre to Ontario Place
TORONTO — Relocating the Ontario Science Centre from its current east Toronto location to Ontario Place would save about $250 million over 50 years — largely because the new building will be half the size — according to an analysis the provincial government is using to justify move. Those savings — which one opposition leader…
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Indiana judge dismisses state’s lawsuit against TikTok that alleged child safety, privacy concerns
NDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indiana county judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit filed by the state accusing TikTok of deceiving its users about the level of inappropriate content for children on its platform and the security of its consumers’ personal information. A pair of lawsuits filed in December 2022 accused the app of misleading its viewers…