CKNB news October 21,2020
CAMPBELLTON
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CAM – STOLEN ATV BILL/RCMP WED AM
Saint-Quentin RCMP are reaching out to the public to help find a stolen
all-terrain vehicle from the community.
Police say the ATV was tken from a residence on Bois-Hebert Street sometime
between 11:30 and midnight on October 15th.
Its described as a white and gray 2014 Yamaha Raptor 700-R with LED lights in
the front and a 700-R sticker on the brake light… it does not have a
license plate.
Anyone who has seen the ATV or knows its whereabout is asked to contact RCMP
or Crimestoppers.
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CAM – SENIOR HOCKEY UPD GG/REL (TUE 12PM)
The ACADIE CHALEUR SENIOR HOCKEY LEAGUE has postponed its season until the
new year.
The league says it held a Zoom meeting Monday night and reset its goal to
open its fifth season in January.
The league syas its determined it was going to be too difficult to hold games
in the foreseeable future due to the current public health requirements
around Covid-19.
Officials have committments from teams in Caraquet, Dalhousie, Shippagan,
Tacadie and Chaluer and is in discussion about a possible sixth team joining
the league to be based in the Miramichi area.
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CAM – VITALITE READY BILL/TRIBUNE TUE AFT
The president of Vitalite Health says they have learned from the past and are
ready for wave-two of COVID-19.
Gilles Lanteigne tells the Tribune even with the virus putting over 30
employees in isolation since the beginning of the month the network is
prepared.
Lanteigne says they took steps after wave one such as structured interviews
both interally and with partners to find out what worked well and what could
improve.
The main area he pointed to was a need to speed up communications. Lanteigne
says despite the recent high numbers there have been few hospitilzations, but
they are ready in case that number rises.
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CAM – TEACHER AWARD BILL/RELEASE TUE AFT
The Association of Francophone Teachers of New Brunswick has awarded a
Campbellton teacher one of its highest honors.
Ginette Noël Thériault has been named Teacher of the Year by the association
for the Bathurst, Campbellton and Dalhousie area.
In the announcement the PRP teacher was recognized as a committed and
visionary person who’s peers define her as a dedicated professional and
inspiring educator.
The release pointed to her work with the cultural and educational travel
committee, multiple projects at PRP, and volunteer work at several
organizations including the Richelieu Club.
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CAM/NB – DALHOUSIE CASE BILL/DAVE/RELEASE WED AM
Meanwhile, a second case of COVID-19 has been confirmed at Dalhousie Regional
High School. (linked to the outbreak in Restigouche)
A letter to parents says the case has no connection to the previously
identified case and the school is working with Public Health to identify any
students and staff that came into contact with the virus.
Grades 9-12 will be learning virtually today (WED) as grades 6-8 have been
doing since last week when the first cases started popping up in Restigouche
schools.
The letter says public health will contact parents directly if their child
came into close contact and give instructions on self isolation.
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NB
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NB – AG REPORT – AMBULANCES GG/BNEWS (TUE 4PM)
GOOD MORNING
The province’s Auditor General has released a highly critical report calling
for a major overhaul of ambulance servce in New Brusnwick.
Kim Adair-MacPherson says the provnce’s contract with Medavie Health Services
excuses questionable payments, poorly defined performance measures and
permits the excessive use of exemptions for not meeting response times.
Adair-MacPherson says those exemptions, which she found were often invalid
and disportionately affected rural areas, were used 5,500 times over the
past two years alone. She says the abuse of those exemptions allowed Medavie
to claim it had met performance targets which got it additional money from
the province.
The Auditor General is now calling for sweeping changes to the board and
governing structure of Ambulance New Brunswick as well as the legislative
framework of its deal with the province.
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NB – SHORTAGES CONTINUE BILL/CBC WED AM
With the pandemic stretching on shortages of certain items are expected to
continue with applicances possibly next on the list..
UNB marketing professor Shelley Rinehart tells CBC questions about the supply
chain have persisted since the early days of the pandemic as we saw shortages
for toilet paper and yeast.
Now… renovation materials and luxury items are hard to come by with
Rinehart saying as winter sets in she expects those trends will shift to
kitchen applicances and cooking ingredients.
The professor says when one piece of the chain such as a trucking company or
processor has a confirmed case of COVID-19 it disrupts the system causing the
shortage.
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NB – COVID UPDATE V2.0 BILL/GEOFF/RELEASE WED AM
No new cases of COVID-19 reported yesterday in New Brusnwick which is a
welcome relief.
More good news as well as eight previous cases have recovered meaning the
active case count in the province has dipped below a hundred to 95.
Moncton is still on targed to go back to the yellow phase tomorrow with 39
cases present in that area… 54 still remain in the Cambpellton area.
Schools in the Restigouche area continue to report cases though as Dalhouse
Regional High School has reported a new case causing grade 9-12 students to
go to virtual learning.
Nationally we added over 22-hundred new cases yesterday as Ontario and
Alberta are reporting their highest active case counts since the pandemic
began… across Canada we have over 22-thousand active.
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NB/MON – COVID UPD GG/NB PH (TUE 4PM)
There was a little bit of good news today as Public Health says there are no
new cases of Covid-19 to report in the province.
Eight previous cases have also recovered, dropping the number of active cases
in New Brunswick down to 95.
54 of those cases are connected to the Campbellton region while 39 are
connected to the outbreak in the Moncton region.
Moncton remains on track to return to the yellow phase of recovery tomorrow –
that would allow places like gyms and close-contact servcies to reopen – and
for some sports to resume.
There are currently three people hospitalized with covid-19 in New Brunswick
including one in intensive care.
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CAM/NB – DALHOUSIE CASE BILL/DAVE/RELEASE WED AM
Meanwhile, a second case of COVID-19 has been confirmed at Dalhousie Regional
High School. (linked to the outbreak in Restigouche)
A letter to parents says the case has no connection to the previously
identified case and the school is working with Public Health to identify any
students and staff that came into contact with the virus.
Grades 9-12 will be learning virtually today (WED) as grades 6-8 have been
doing since last week when the first cases started popping up in Restigouche
schools.
The letter says public health will contact parents directly if their child
came into close contact and give instructions on self isolation.
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NB – AG REPORT – AMBULANCES GG/BNEWS (TUE 4PM)
The province’s Auditor General has released a highly critical new report
calling for a major overhaul of Ambulance servce in New Brusnwick.
Kim Adair-MacPherson says the provnce’s contract with Medavie Health Services
has poorly defined performance measures and permits the excessive use of
exemptions for not meeting response times.
Adair-MacPherson says those exemptions, which she found were often invalid
and disportionately affected rural areas, were used 5500 times over the past
two years alone.
She says that also allowed Medavie to claim it had met perfomance targets
that triggered additional payments from the province.
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NB – AG – CARDY SCHOOL GG/BNEWS (TUE 4PM)
The Auditor General’s latest report is accusing the government of lettting a
school in Education Minister Dominic Cardy’s riding jump the que to receive
government funding.
Kim Adair-MacPherson found the province’s own impartial anyalis scoring tool
for priority funding found the Hanwell K-8 School in Cardy;s riding was third
on the list behind two Dieppe based schools.
Despite that, it was the Hanwell school in Cardy’s riding which recived the
funding over the Deippe riding held by Liberal Roger Melanson.
The Auditor General is also taking issue with Cardy’s department for stil not
having a speicific plan in palce to deal with aging school infratstructure.
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NB-Fredericton-Shootings (wire wed.am)
Jurors in the Matthew Raymond mass murder trial viewed more video evidence
yesterday from the 50-year-old’s computer.
They showed him talking to animals, suggesting people were influencing the
weather and that someone had been in his apartment when he couldn’t find
things. Defence team member Alex Pate has spent a few days now showing the
videos taken from his client’s computer in an effort to get the jury to find
Raymond not criminally responsible due to a mental disorder for the killings
of Sara Burns, Robb Costello, Donnie Robichaud and Bobbie Lee Wright.
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NB-COVID-Military (wire wed.am)
There were no new cases of COVID-19 in New Brunswick yesterday as the
outbreaksin Moncton and Campbellton quiet down….but over 2,200 cases were
added to the lists nation-wide bringing the number of active cases to over
22,000.
As the second wave continues to surge, especially in Ontario and Quebec,
Canadian troops have been ordered keep up their guard against the novel
coronavirus. Top DND officials are painting a gloomy picture of how the
pandemic could affect the military and country for at least the next year.
Troops are being warned the pandemic is likely to get worse before it gets
better, with expectations it could last 12-months or longer and manifest in a
number of waves across the country.
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NB – JORDAN MEDIATOR BILL/DG/CBC WED AM
The Fisheries Minister is searching for someone to help quell the tensions
between indigenous and commercial fishersin south-west Nova Scotia.
Bernadette Jordan tells CBC she is looking for a special representative to
help foster a dialogue between the groups while she continues negotiations on
a long term solution for the indigenous fishery that meets the requirements
of the Marshall decision 21 years ago. Jordan says many of these people have
been fishing side by side for generations and this issue has torn them apart.
The exact role of this special representative isn’t defined, but basically it
will be to foster peace on the water.
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ALL
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ALL-Confidence vote (wire wed.am)
The pressure is on the New Democrats to make a crucial decision — side with
the Trudeau Government or the other Opposition parties adbring down the
minority government.
At issue is a Conservative motion which would create a special House of
Commons committee to probe allegations of corrupt spending in COVID-19
programs.
The Liberals say the move essentially means the opposition has no confidence
in the government and an election should be held.
The Bloc Quebecois has said it will support the Conservatives. Green M-P
Elizabeth May is accusing the Tories of chasing headlines.
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SPORTS 1
The Dodgers won the opening game of the World Series by beating the Rays 8-3.
It’s the first World Series to be held at a neutral site….in Arlington
Texas before a COVID-limited crowd of just over 11,000. That’s the smallest
crowd for baseball’s championship game in 111 years.
