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'A huge economic opportunity': trade barriers at stake in border booze case
Gerard Comeau's legal fight against New Brunswick's limits on bringing alcohol into the province stands to create "a huge economic opportunity for Canada," says the executive director of the Canadian Constitution Foundation.
Supreme Court agrees to hear appeal of cross-border booze case
The Supreme Court of Canada has agreed to hear an appeal of a New Brunswick court ruling that declared it unconstitutional to limit the amount of alcohol someone can bring into the province.
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Python deaths: 'This could have been prevented by a simple action'
The now-retired RCMP investigator who recommended Campbellton python-owner Jean-Claude Savoie be charged in the deaths of two boys killed by a snake rejects the suggestion he bowed to interference from top RCMP brass.
'People did not stay in their lanes': ex-RCMP investigator reflects on python case
In a 36-year career in the RCMP — spent mostly as a criminal investigator with 15 years heading the major crime unit in southeast New Brunswick — Gerry Belliveau had never been overruled by a superior when it came to charging or not charging a suspect. Then came his final assignment.
Bad beat? Crown sues poker player for $10K seized in traffic stop
The province is suing a poker player from Hanwell to make him forfeit more than $10,000 recovered by police after he turned away from an RCMP check stop in November 2015.
Water damage delayed PET/CT scanner at Dumont being put to use for months
Water damage from a broken pipe in a new addition to the Georges-L.-Dumont Hospital in 2012 delayed a new PET/CT scanner from being put into use for several months.
'Something has to change': lawyer calls medication denial for inmates 'a problem'
The pendulum in prisons and jails has swung too far toward keeping prescription medications out of the hands of inmates, at the expense of those who need their prescriptions for painkillers or other medications, says a New Brunswick criminal defence lawyer.
N.B. court refuses to put man back in prison after he didn't get his medication
New Brunswick's highest court has rejected a bid by the Crown to put a man from Tobique First Nation back in prison, after he was wasn't given his medication while incarcerated on a drug-trafficking charge.
Water damage to PET scanner at Dumont hospital results in $1.2M lawsuit
The New Brunswick government is suing three companies for $1.2 million for the water damage caused to a multi-million PET/CT scan at Moncton's Georges-L.-Dumont Regional Hospital when the overhead plumbing system failed.
Judge says defamation law will eventually tame internet
Court of Queen's Bench Justice Paulette Garnett says defamation laws will eventually tame "the Wild West" of the internet.