The Serious Incident Response Team are investigating a fatal crash in Tantallon.
In a release, they say a man was walking on the side of Highway 103 on Saturday night, when he was struck by a vehicle.
The driver was an off-duty Bridgewater Police officer.
SIRT says alcohol doesn’t appear to be a factor.
They’re looking for anyone with dashcam footage, photos or other information to come forward.
Another hike at the gas pump.
Gas is going up 7.1 cents per litre at midnight, diesel will jump 10.9 cents.
It’s because the energy board has invoked the interrupter clause once again.
The price of gas will be around $1.82 a litre, diesel will be close to $2.50 after the jump.
The conflict in the Middle East has driven fuel prices up across the country.
The Port Hood Volunteer Fire Department is welcoming a new Fire Chief.
The new chief, Shaun MacDonald has been with the department for six years and was Deputy Chief for the last four years.
He says taking the position last week was a natural progression and he looks forward to helping out with community functions.
“Well, it’s a big void. Donald Beaton had 26 years in as a chief, and he’s going to remain as a firefighter,” commented MacDonald.
“I’m sure that’s a lot of knowledge there that’s leaving the position, but he will help me with anything that’s happening in the future and make it an easy transition.”
He adds Beaton was probably one of the longest serving chiefs he’s aware of and he did a great job giving his time and commitment.
Beaton assisted with fires and accidents for 26 years as chief and a total of 42 years as a firefighter with the department.
He says he’s staying on as a fireman, but it was a little hard to change positions.
“I’d like to thank you at the community and all the firemen for putting up with me for 26 years. I think I was very fair to them all and I did my best for them and the community, so I left them in good shape when I did step down,” stated Beaton.
He adds that the new Chief Shaun MacDonald is retired, so he has lots of free time needed for the volunteer role.
Two individuals are facing charges for driving transports with missing wheels.
Nipigon OPP caught the drivers within 40 minutes of each other on Saturday morning.
A 59-year old driver from Winnipeg (and the Winnipeg-based company that owns the vehicle) and a 24-year old driver from Brampton are charged with wheel separation. The Brampton driver is also charged with operation of an unsafe commercial motor vehicle.
The cases are currently under investigation.
More details have emerged after a Saturday morning road closure on Oliver Road.
The Thunder Bay Police Service says that after officers responded to a 9-1-1 call, they discovered a deceased 71-year-old man from Thunder Bay in the vehicle.
The TBPS traffic unit is still investigating the cause of the event, but for the moment is refraining from characterizing the scene as a “fatal collision.”
By Nathalie Sturgeon, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The St. Croix Courier
The new collaborative care clinic on King Street in St. Stephen won’t be open to the public until January 2027, despite earlier promises from the Holt government.
Saint Croix Progressive Conservative MLA Kathy Bockus said Horizon Health Network (HHN) president and CEO Margaret Melanson confirmed the timeline to her.
“I’m told by Horizon CEO Margaret Melanson that the first patient day for the new clinic, to be opened at the old Sobeys store, is expected to be in mid-January 2027,” she said in a post on Facebook. “Melanson graciously shared with me the timeline she received from her team. I thank her for the clarity she provided.”
The clinic is currently located on the third floor of the Charlotte County Hospital (CCH) and is limited in space. It began taking patients in February 2024, but has only accepted 310 patients from the list of those without a primary care provider.
It was one of 10 clinics promised to be operating within the first 18 months of the Liberal government’s mandate.
According to HHN, as cited in Bockus’ post, the offer to lease was signed in December 2025. Architectural work, renderings and floor plans continued in the following weeks.
Finalized floor plans are anticipated to be ready in mid-April. Construction is expected to begin in late June or early July, ending in the fall. The first day for patients would be in January 2027.
In November, Holt said it would have people in the clinic “before the snow melts.”
“We’re looking for those to be rapid renovations,” Holt said during a press conference in November.
Last month during an announcement at the Fundy Health Centre for its collaborative care clinic, she reiterated that her promise was to have people in before the snow melts.
“We’re tracking that closely to make sure that they can get into that space and get new patients added as quickly as possible,” Holt said, speaking with reporters in February.
Inside the space at CCH, Dr. Wael Sabre is continuing to onboard patients successfully, Bockus’ post said.
“An additional practice-ready assessment candidate has been earmarked for St. Stephen,” it said. “Two upcoming physician graduates were hosted on site to meet the care team and members of the town’s physician recruitment committee.”
Bockus’ post said the clinic is operating at capacity and that space constraints remain.
Premier Susan Holt, who was in Saint Andrews Monday to announce Charlotte County’s third collaborative care clinic, said she is still looking for things to be done faster than the timeline presented by HHN.
“I am hoping that we can go more quickly,” she said. “I have said a number of times I’m impatient, and New Brunswickers are impatient, waiting to get access to care.”
She said there are significant physical changes that need to be made to the building, which was a grocery store.
Health Minister Dr. John Dornan said clinicians are already onboarding more patients, but it means they will be working in cramped quarters for a little while.
“We’ll grow much more rapidly in January, but be taking patients long before that,” he said.
Hopefully, you didn’t put the snow shovels away when spring officially arrived just over a week ago.
There will be shovelling and scraping in your near future.
More messy weather is coming, according to Environment Canada.
Environment Canada has issued special weather statements for the province.
They are calling for the possibility of significant snowfall, ice pellets, and freezing rain on Tuesday night.
“It looks like to the north, mostly snow, to the extreme south, I want to say, mostly rain, and then everything in between will be a mixture of everything. We’re looking at 15 to 20 centimetres of snow up north. In terms of freezing rain, we’re looking at maybe 5 to 10 millimetres over several hours through central and southern parts, including Moncton through to Fredericton. Then down south, Saint. John, St. Stephen, it looks like it will be maybe initially some freezing rain or ice pellets, but mostly rain after that, and they’re looking at from 10 to 20 millimetres,” Meteorologist Jill Maepea told our newsroom.
Snowfall and/or freezing rain warnings may be required, and Maepea explained those could come later today.
Scatter precipitation is expected to begin tomorrow afternoon, in the form of flurries and showers, but Mapea said they’re anticipating the system will intensify more on Tuesday evening and Tuesday night.
Conditions are expected to improve for Thursday, but Maepea added they are monitoring another similar system for Friday.
The Grassy Narrow and Wabaseemoong First Nations held a rally in Toronto this morning.
They were demanding the provincial government compensate the communities for decades of mercury poisoning.
The First Nations say mercury poisoning has had a devastating impact on their health, economy and their culture.
The Grassy Narrows and Wabaseemoong First Nations brought their chiefs, councillors, elders, youth and other supporters to the rally.
In addition to compensation, they want the Dryden Pulp Mill, responsible for the mercury contamination, to be shut down.
The rally took place in front of the Royal York Hotel where prime minister Mark Carney and premier Doug Ford were meeting.
(Photo from Free Grassy’s Facebook page)
Play-off matchups for the semi-finals in the Superior International Junior Hockey League are all set.
The Dryden GM Ice Dogs will host the Thunder Bay North Stars in a best-of-seven series starting on Friday.
Dryden will be the home team for the first two games of the series, before it shifts to Thunder Bay.
The other series will feature the Fort Frances Lakers, who had a first round bye, taking on the Kam River Fighting Walleye.
Kam River finished off the series with the Sioux Lookout Bombers on Friday with a 6-2 victory.
The Fighting Walleye won the series 4-1.
Games one and two will be in Fort Frances at the Ice for Kids Arena this Friday and Saturday.
Meanwhile, the Last Chance Tournament wrapped up in Dryden over the weekend.
The Kenora Voodoo took top honours in the 45+ age division beating the Kenora NHL’ers 6-4 in the final.
The Dragoons won the 35+ age group, edging Atikokan 3-2 in a shootout in the championship game.
The Dryden Inferno were the ladies’ champs shutting out the Shoal Lake Flyers 2-0 in the final.
Multiple unoccupied tents caught fire at the Marina Overpass Encampment Monday morning.
Thunder Bay Fire Rescue says they were able to control the blaze around 5 am.
There are no injuries reported.
Officials say they would like to remind the public not to leave open flame heating units unattended.