Category: Amherst

The drug-trafficking trial of a Tantallon doctor has been adjourned until the end of the week. Dr. Sarah Dawn Jones is charged with prescribing 50,000 pills to one patient.

Her lawyer argued, as the trial opened; that some evidence should be thrown out.  He feels that some information Jones gave to an investigation by the College of Physicians and Surgeons should be excluded because it was self-incriminating and some other evidence gained through that investigation should be excluded as well.

The judge reserved decision until Friday.

The head of the Acadian Federation has again called on Premier McNeil to delay calling an election until new Acadian riding boundaries are drawn.

Marie-Claude Rioux says voting before they are in place wold open a Pandora’s Box, legally and constitutionally.  She wants the former ridings restored before an election or the Federation will go to court.  She also said the Federation wants a more formal process to decide the boundaries within the next two years.