Category: Amherst

According to the Correctional Service of Canada, Atlantic Canada has the highest rate of solitary confinement for federal inmates; at five per cent.

The United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners prohibits prolonged solitary confinement, which is anything over two weeks; longer than that is considered torture.

Canada helped draft those rules.

As of last month, 404 prisoners were in solitary, and 22 had been there for more than 100 days.

Deer bait stations could help fight Lyme disease in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.

Deer bait stations attract deer, which can carry infected ticks that cause Lyme disease.

When the deer feed on corn from a central bin, their ears; head and neck rub against rollers that are treated with a pesticide that kills ticks.