Tag Archives: Fredericton

Fredericton police say they have reopened an investigation into the 2008 homicide of a 43-year-old school teacher who was allegedly poisoned with mercury. No charges were ever laid, and the Fredericton Police Force won’t say why it’s revisiting the case, which went cold in 2013.  In 2011 police identified and briefly arrested …

The son of a 78-year-old man who died in a Fredericton emergency department after waiting to be seen for nearly seven hours says New Brunswick’s premier is using his father’s death to score political goals ahead of an election. Ryan Mesheau said he was taken aback by Premier Blaine Higgs’s …

Fredericton emergency room doctor Dr. Yogi Sehgal is asking whether it’s time for the provincial government to declare a state of emergency for what he calls a medical system in “crisis mode.” He said Fredericton, N.B., is decades behind what it should be, with an aging population and too few …

Jackie McLean and her common-law partner Const. Robb Costello kept location-tracking services active on their phones so they could see where the other was. Often, when Costello was at the Fredericton police station, McLean’s phone would mistakenly tell her he was in the middle of the Saint John River, a …

Hundreds of people gathered in Fredericton’s Officers’ Square on Friday night to watch the official re-opening of the space. The vision for the revitalization survived public outcry over the historic site, the discovery of Acadian and Indigenous artifacts, and changing of ownership from the province to the city. “I hope …

Oksana Tesla, the president of the Ukrainian Association of Fredericton, started preparing a traditional Christmas Eve meal with her mother on Dec. 23. On a side table was a candlelabra holding three beige candles. Tesla said those candles sit at the centre of the table during their Christmas Eve meal. …

Ahmed Hallaq’s mother was attending to her morning prayers in the family’s apartment in central Turkey last week when she saw the ceiling lamps start to sway. She closed her eyes and went back to her prayers, Hallaq said, which is when she felt the ground beneath her sway and …

When Aimee Dunn heard that a patient died alone in the waiting room of a Fredericton emergency department less than four months after she lost her infant in the same ER, she felt grief and rage all over again. “My baby looked perfect,” said Dunn, who had to be delivered of …

A senior Fredericton couple and their elderly neighbour, whose plight with rent increases last winter helped push the New Brunswick government to enhance tenant protections, are facing the loss of their apartments for good. Pauline Tramble, 67, her husband Charles, 85 and their neighbour Tayfun Orkus, 83 all received notices …