Category: Moncton

Fired worker ordered reinstated

A Fredericton hospital lab worker, who was fired after missing more than a month of work because he was in jail, has been ordered re-instated. Labour adjudicator John McEvoy called the firing of Paul Lynch by the Doctor Everett Chalmers Hospital improper.

Lynch was sentenced to jail after his seventh drunk driving conviction. He said he wasn’t able to contact his bosses to tell them why he didn’t show up for work. The hospital fired him by registered mail, although the hospital was aware of rumours he had been jailed.

Calls to lower restrictions on refugees from U-S

As more refugees try to flee the U-S to come to Canada, the College of Physicians and Surgeons is calling on Ottawa to lift some restrictions.

The College is concerned about the health of refugees trying to walk across the border in remote areas from north Dakota into Manitoba. There have been a couple of dozen refugees picked up doing that in the last couple of weeks…and that’s just the ones who have been caught.

Some immigration groups want Ottawa to repeal an agreement with the United States so people fleeing the U-S can go to official Canadian  border crossings to seek asylum.