Child porn charge in Oromocto

A 61 year old man has been charged with one count of possessing images of child sexual abuse.

The RCMP’s Internet Child Exploitation Unit searched David Pugh’s home in Oromocto and arrested him. He’s been released on coinduitions and will be back in court March 20.

More middle-east refugees destined for Canada

Ottawa will be resettling 1,200 of the world’s most vulnerable refugees.

The Yazidis are a minority ethnic group in northern Iraq and elsewhere. About 400 asylum seekers, most of them Yazidis, have arrived here in recent months.

Conservative M-P Michelle Rempel applauded the government’s move to help resettle them in Canada…but said it’s only one small piece of a broader puzzle to save the Yazidis from annihilation.