Route 11 update

The province has hired a full-time employee to deal with twinning Route 11.

The Leader reports they’ll determine if there’s a good case to do the highway all the way up to Miramichi.

21 kilometres between the Shediac River and McKees Mills will be twinned for sure, as well as creating a Glenwood-Miramichi bypass.

Big bucks for a Nova Scotia teacher

A Nova Scotia native has won the biggest teaching prize in the world, a million dollars.

Maggie MacDonnell won a million dollars in the “Global Teacher Prize” in Dubai as the best teacher in the world.  MacDonnell won for her philosophy promoting hope and acts of kindness in Salluit, a remote community in northern Quebec.  MacDonnell established a fitness centre for youth and adults and ran a community kitchen, among other things.  She plans to set up youth programs with her prize.

Prime Minister Trudeau sent a videotaped message saying she had done extraordinary things in exceptional circumstances and has shown enormous heart, will; and imagination.