Category: Saint John

Nursing homes are fighting back against what they feel is a power grab by the Gallant Government.

The government has decided to fold the assets of 60 nonprofit homes into the province’s books. Auditor General Kim MacPherson told a legislature committee it’s not intended to infringe on the normal day-to-day operations of these nursing homes and non-profit boards. It’s just an accounting thing.

Michael Keating, executive director of the New Brunswick Association of Nursing Homes, however, told the Telegraph-Journal the homes feel angry, hurt and confused by what they see as a power grab that threatens their independence and control. They’re preparing to challenge the government in court.

Tens of thousands of dead herring keep washing ashore across the Bay of Fundy along the shores of St. Mary’s Bay in Nova Scotia…and now they’re turning up elsewhere.

The first sightings were two weeks ago on beaches on St. Marys Bay. Now dead fish are turning up in the Annapolis Basin.

Biology professor Shawn Craik says the fish could be dying of a virus, pollution, parasites or a poisonous algae bloom…they’re waiting on lab tests.