Category: Moncton

Ontario “Angel of Death” case

A sentencing hearing will be held today for an “Angel of Death” in Ontario.

Family members of some of the victims of nurse Elizabeth Wettlaufer are expected to give victim impact statements.  She murdered eight patients in her care.  Both the crown and defence are recommending life sentences with no parole for 25 years on the eight counts to run concurrently so the 50 year old would never get out.  Wettlaufer said she believed she was acting as an instrument of God in a total of 14 cases.  Six people survived.

Six Endangered Right Whales found Dead

Conservationists are sounding the alarm after six dead endangered North Atlantic right whales have been discovered off the coasts of northern New Brunswick and PEI in the just the past few weeks. Experts estimate only 500 of the large marine animals are still alive, so the dead whales represent a die off of more than one percent of the species entire population. The dead whales were discovered in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in a triangle of ocean between Northern PEI, New Brunswick’s Misocu Island and Quebec’s Magdalen Islands. What caused the death of the whales isn’t known but a spokesperson for the Department of Fisheries and Oceans tells CBC they are in the process of figuring out how to retrieve one of the giant carcasses to conduct a necropsy.