Category: Miramichi

A Canadian man is being held in Belize as a person on interest in the deaths of a Toronto area woman and her American boyfriend.

Francesca Matus and Drew DeVoursney were both strangled.  Their bodies were found Monday, six days after they were last seen.

A Belize police sergeant told The Canadian Press late Thursday night the man remains in custody and is still very much a person of interest.

There’s a new federal law designed to reduce the number of people who die from drug overdoses.

The Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act was introduced as a private member’s bill last year by Liberal backbencher Ron McKinnon.  It got royal assent yesterday.  The law provides immunity from simple possession charges for anyone calling 9-1-1 to report an O-D.