Category: Saint John

Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan says the military has been hollowed out by years of underfunding…but isn’t saying yet how Ottawa plans to fix it.

Sajjan told a defence industry audience yesterday status quo spending on defence will not even maintain a status quo of capabilities. The Liberals are getting ready to announce their new defence policy, which he says will begin to address the problem.

Police in Belize have questioned a few people in the murders of a Canadian woman and her American boyfriend there last week.

The bodies of Francesca Matus and Drew DeVoursney were found Monday in a sugar cane field. They were last seen leaving a bar together Tuesday night of last week.

While some people have been questioned, there have been no arrests.