Saint John News Archives

Due to a shortage of vaccines, the following H1N1 vaccination clinics scheduled for today and Sunday have been temporarily postponed until a new shipment of the vaccine is received: Belleisle Regional High School, 1800 Route 124, Springfield, scheduled for today ; MacDonald Consolidated School, 3950 Route 845, scheduled for Sunday ; St.

The agreement was made public Thursday by Quebeca TMs Jean Charest, left, and New Brunswicka TMs Shawn Graham.

The first, hopefully annual, Chop Chop "feast-ival" starts Sunday in uptown Saint John, running until Nov.

Just before 9 p.m. on Wednesday, a man entered Olsen Meat and Produce on Lancaster Avenue wearing a mask and brandishing a weapon.

Civic leaders from Bangor met Thursday with their counterparts from Saint John, New Brunswick, for a series of sessions on tourism, economic development, transportation and energy in hopes of fostering collaboration.

The Maritime greyhound adoption program is hosting a meet and greet at Market Square on Saturday, Nov.

Chief Justice of Canada Beverley McLachlin is scheduled to be a guest speaker at a fundraiser luncheon for public art later this month.

Dear Ms. Hollins: We are writing to express our continued opposition to the closure of the Canadian Blood Service production facility in New Brunswick.

One man was taken to hospital Monday around 4 p.m. after his motorcycle collided with a mini van on the Lepreau Village Road in Lepreau.

Among the nearly 80 people sworn in as Canadian citizens last week in Saint John was an Afghan doctor who emigrated to the city with her four children.

New Brunswick's Miller Brittain burst upon the Canadian art scene with masterful emotion-filled drawings and paintings of the human form at a time when landscapes by the Group of Seven held sway.

Rothesay Avenue was one of the roads flooded in east Saint John Saturday night. High winds and heavy rain Saturday knocked out power to thousands of homes in some parts of the Maritimes.

The Council of Canadians says New Brunswickers should object to any effort to privatize their utility and sell it off, in whole or in part.

Canadian Blood Services seems determined to downgrade and destroy our excellent, long-standing New Brunswick blood service in the name of regionalization in Nova Scotia.

An industrial accident at AECL on Bayside Drive is under investigation by WorkSafe NB which administers the Workplace Health, Safety and Compensation Commission Act for the province of New Brunswick.

If the Canadian military was going to grieve the loss of soldiers in Afghanistan, "our nation was going to grieve with us." The vow was Gen.

The Fundy Chapter of Muscular Dystrophy Canada is holding a fundraising auction on Saturday, beginning at 6 p.m., at the Three Mile Steakhouse and Pub.

In a recent list of Canadian corporate lawyers to watch based on their cross-border work Arthur Doyle of Cox & Palmer was the only one from Atlantic Canada to make the grade.

Canaport LNG will be undergoing planned maintenance work on its process equipment sometime between today and Sunday, Oct.

Just hours after releasing their Top 10 Most Wanted Con Air Candidates, police arrested Andrew Gillis in New Westminster, one of the Top 10.

The city's major crime unit is investigating the armed robbery of a convenience store in the city's north end.

The Saint John Police Force handed out 62 tickets over its four-day Operation Impact, which ran over the long weekend.

The Harper government spent well over $100,000 staging a one-hour event in June to deliver an update on its efforts to help the recession-ravaged economy.

Saint John police are investigating an early-morning armed robbery at a north end convenience store.

Nubody's Fitness and the Animal Rescue League are hosting a health and charity barbecue and fundraiser outside the Parkway Mall on Saturday.

The newly expanded Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline has created a real opportunity for more Mainers to have access to natural gas, Tina Faraca, Maritimes president, said just before a Thursday ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Brewer Compressor Station.

The latest recommendation from Taser International about aiming the stun gun away from the chest will be incorporated into training by the Saint John City Police, says Chief Bill Reid.

Canada's most livable cities are not, it turns out, home to its most satisfied people.

A 70-year-old Rothesay woman escaped a grisly scene without injury on Wednesday afternoon when a train slammed into her vehicle.

The Canaport liquefied natural gas terminal in Saint John, N.B., had to evacuated over the weekend after reports of a fire.

A fire that heavily damaged a 2006 Chevy Impala is under investigation. District Fire Chief Gerry Morris said the owner of the vehicle said he was having mechanical problems so he parked it at the corner of Grandview Avenue and Black River Road.

Charges haven't been ruled out, said Sgt. Pat Bonner of the Saint John Police Force, after a quarrel between a 47-year-old man and his ex-girlfriend left him in hospital recovering from two broken legs.

Canadian Blood Services is going ahead with plans to close the Saint John production lab.

A man who crashed the St. Stephen border and was last seen driving toward Saint John was caught by city police as he crossed the Harbour Bridge at 12:30 p.m. on Friday.

Arthur Linton, 30, of Main Street North received a total of six months behind bars Thursday after pleading guilty in provincial court to a pair thefts this week involving the dietary supplement Ensure.

Canada's unemployment rate fell for the first time in nearly a year to 8.4 per cent last month, in perhaps the clearest indication the hard-hit labour market may be recovering sooner than expected.

Common council voted Monday night to allow the city to borrow $18.5 million for construction projects that have already been finished.

The New Brunswick government needs to stop fighting the closure of a blood production facility in Saint John and allow the national reorganization of the system to continue, the head of Canadian Blood Services said Wednesday.

A shortage of beds in nursing homes and shelters, an increasing lung-cancer rate - especially in men - and a rise in obesity are the areas of concern identified by this year's Vital Signs report.

It appears New Brunswick doctors and the provincial government will both get what they were looking for in a new contract.

Equal Voice organizing in N.B. A meeting to set up a New Brunswick chapter of Equal Voice will be held on Wednesday, Oct.

The federal Conservative government and the opposition Liberals are miles apart when it comes to calculating how much federal stimulus funding has been allocated to infrastructure projects across the country.

City staff wants common council to approve borrowing $18.5 million to cover costs for already-completed construction projects.

The TV series "Less Than Kind" and "The Jon Dore Television Show" were among the multiple winners at the Canadian Comedy Awards, presented by The Comedy Network.

Saint John City Police arrested a 29-year -old male from Nova Scotia found running from an office building at 885 Bayside Drive Thursday around 7:30 p.m. Officers were responding to a tip from a member of the public who reported suspicious activity, said Acting Staff Sergeant David Arsenault.

Liberals to table no-confidence motion Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff makes his way to a news conference in Ottawa, Friday September 25, 2009 to announce an open nomination process in the riding of Outremont.