RCMP say they have arrested two people who were allegedly plotting to attack a Via Rail passenger train.
The suspects were arrested in Toronto and Montreal.
Police named them as Chiheb Esseghaier and Raed Jaser. The investigation was part of a cross-border operation involving Canadian law enforcement agencies, the FBI and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
The alleged plotters have reportedly been under surveillance for more than a year.
The arrests are not connected to the Boston Marathon bombings.
April 22 is Earth Day, on on that occasion and Andrew Holland of the Nature Conservancy of Canada wants to remind New Brunswickers that we live in one of the most unspoiled provinces in Canada.
He tells CHSJ News we get so accustomed to our natural surroundings that we forget to simply pause and reflect on how lucky we are.
Holland Earth Day is a great occasion to do for a walk, play hide and seek with your kids, or simply pause and take a good look at where we live.
A St. George man has been arrested after St. George RCMP executed a search warrant.
Yesterday RCMP executed a search warrant at a St. George home and seized marijuana, prescription pills, drug paraphernalia, and money.
A 59-year-old man was arrested and later released on conditions. He is scheduled to appear in St. Stephen Provincial Court at a later date.
After an explosion at a West Texas fertilizer plant killed at least 14 people and injured more than 200, some are wondering whether the fertilizer production plant Atlantic Potash are talking about building in the McAllister Industrial Park would be safe.
Common councillor Ray Strowbridge tells CHSJ News it's not only too soon to start worrying that, but that even in the eventuality there was an accident we have a strong enough emergency response team to deal with that.
In addition, Strowbridge says Atlantic Potash will have to fulfill the province's safety requirements, and council will do its due diligence as the project comes closer to being a reality.
The Kennebecasis Valley Regional Deer Committee has started an online survey to get a feel for what people want to see done with the growing population of deer, if anything.
Hampton Councillor Bob Doucet chairs the Deer Committee and is hoping to get a large response. He tells CHSJ News when this is all said and done, he's hoping the Natural Resources Department will come up with a comprehensive deer management plan.
Doucet says the concerns he has heard from people range from the deer being a nuisance to a danger when they roam on the road and the possibility of catching Lyme Disease from deer ticks which is quite debilitating.
He concedes the issue is controversial because others in the Valley don't want to see anything done and argue people are infringing on the deer's habitat.
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One of the men who pleaded guilty in a beating which shook up the quiet community of Glen Falls will be sentenced next Thursday.
John Alexander Adams and Robert Hachey, both of them 18,as well as a younger teen have been charged in the February 26th assault. That night police received several calls from the Glen Falls area about a young man wandering around the neighborhood bleeding and confused. According to testimony from, the victim was beaten with a baseball bat. He's now reportedly in a rehabilitation center after a lengthy stay in hospital.
The sentencing was delayed as the police finish their work on the case. The court heard Adams has written a letter of apology to the victim.
One of the candidates running in the Ward 3 byelection to fill a vacant seat on Common Council says he brings a varied background to the table that you don't normally see with your typical run of the mill city councillor.
Graeme Stewart-Robertson had given some thought before last May's municipal election to running for Mayor before deciding against. He did run to be a councillor unsuccessfully and is giving it another shot.
Stewart Robertson tells CHSJ News he has been involved in all manner of issues in the last decade ranging from poverty reduction to climate change, tourism and urban planning. He promises to bring a more energetic perspective to Council.
Stewart-Robertson is hoping to attract the votes of people who normally don't bother because they're dissatisfied with politics and have tuned out.
There will be a Meet the Candidates Forum tonight at Saint John the Baptist-King Edward School starting at 6:30 with another tomorrow night at the Carleton Community Centre.
A rail car has derailed on the line behind Moosehead Brewery with runs to the Irving pulp mill. Traffic is not being disrupted.
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The symbol of New Brunswick's future could be the call centre.
That statement coming from president of the Association of New Brunswick Teachers, Miriam Jones, in response to the announcement that U-N-B is making cuts to academic programming. Jones, who teaches at U-N-B Saint John tells CHSJ News the budget cuts threatens UNB's status as a comprehensive university and means the school will graduate fewer teachers, nurses, engineers, lawyers, computer scientists, biologists and psychologists in years to come.
Jones says if we don't have a reputation as a comprehensive university, granting agencies aren't likely to look favourably on applications from people from UNB, meaning the school will get fewer grants and less research will get done.
She tells us that resources are already stretched too thin on the academic side, and if they get even thinner, UNB would be in danger of not actually being comprehensive enough to call itself a real university, it would be more like a polytechnic or professional school.
Provincial government retirees are talking about going to court if the Alward Government tries to unilaterally impose the shared risk pension plan.
They appear to be universally opposed despite the best efforts of provincial Finance Minister Blaine Higgs to change their minds about the effect this would have on their pensions.
Higgs maintains if the shared risk model had been in place for the past twenty years, the indexing of their pensions would not have changed.
He also points out provincial taxpayers have had to make special contributions to the provincial pension plan of over 50 million dollars a year.
Higher tobacco taxes don't necessarily translate into more smokers resorting to illegal cigarettes despite what Imperial Tobacco might say. At least that's the contention of the President and C-E-O of the New Brunswick Lung Association, Barb MacKinnon who has seen the numbers.
MacKinnon tells CHSJ News the provinces with the higher taxes on smokes have a lower percentage of illegal tobacco use. She believes it's because some of that tax revenue from smoking is used for policing to clamp down on illegal tobacco.
According to 2008 figures, about 26 per cent of all smokers are buying illegal tobacco.
Common Council will receive a proposal tonight for a seniors' development at 700 Millidge Avenue which would be just above University Avenue.
The proposal would consist of four buildings being constructed in a campus style layout for seniors suffering dementia to those who are still active and mobile.
Common Council can refer the rezoning applpication to the Planning Advisory Committee or deny it outright, which appears unlikely.
There have been written objections received by the city which argue the land should be kept in its natural state as an urban reserve so what's left of the wetland isn't destroyed and this will be a test of the councillors' resolve to adhere to the vision of Plan SJ
Justin Trudeau's first week as Liberal leader has been a bit of a tough go.
The Harper government wasted no time in putting out attack ads hours after his win and a Parti Quebecois cabinet minister accused him of acting like royalty.
UPEI Political scientist Don Desserud tells CHSJ News Trudeau is the perfect example of the celebrity politician.
He says it doesn't mean he can't or won't do a good job but the point is that's not why he is there right now adding he's there to bring in new voters and if it works he doesn't have anything against it.
Desserud calls the Tory attack ads a mistep saying it shows the negative party politics these days.
Two hikers found human remains in a wooded area near Moncton on Saturday afternoon.
RCMP say they came across the remains on the east side of Gunningsville Boulevard, about a kilometre from Coverdale Road.
A forensic identification team is working to find out the identity of the person whose remains were found, and also the cause of death.
A moose has been killed and a driver sent to hospital to be checked out after a collision between the animal and a vehicle on the highway.
Lieutenant Reg Verner of the KV Fire Department tells CHSJ News that it happened late at night on Highway 1, with traffic heading eastbound.
He tells us people had been calling into the Department of Natural Resources with moose sightings earlier that day, and that they'd been working to track the animal down.
A Saint John mother whose son was injured by a drunk driver is taking the fight to Ottawa.
Karen Dunham is part of the current chapter of MADD in Saint John and she tells CHSJ News while improvements have been made, impaired driving continues to kill and injure thousands of Canadians every year, and they're making the whirlwind trip on April 25 to talk with as many politicians as they can.
MADD Canada representatives will speak with MPs about a number of recommendations to reduce impaired driving, including tougher sanctions for repeat impaired drivers, tougher sanctions for those with BACs in excess of .16% BAC, and random roadside breath testing.
Temporary new conditions have been put into place for companies creating medications, after five hospitals in New Brunswick and Ontario administered watered down chemotherapy drugs to more than 1200 patients.
Heath Canada is saying that companies can keep making the drugs can if it's done within a hospital and meets provincial requirements, outside the hospital under the eye of provincially licensed pharmacist or in a way that's in keeping with licensing and manufacturing requirements of the Food and Drugs Act. Dr. Supriya Sharma, senior medical adviser with Health Canada, says the conditions mean the companies can keep providing service until a long-term plan is figured out.
Marchese Hospital Solutions gave the drugs to the hospitals, but they say the problem wasn't with their drugs, it was with how they were administered. Sharma admitting that the new conditions might not have prevented the underdosing, as Marchese was believed to have been working under appropriate supervision.
A three-car pile-up near Fox Farm Road has sent one woman to hospital.
Rothesay Regional Police tells CHSJ News that traffic heading westbound slowed down on Highway 1 for unknown reasons, and and one vehicle struck the back of another vehicle, causing a chain reaction.
Police say that the woman in the middle vehicle was taken to Saint John Regional Hospital with injuries and a person in the front vehicle has minor injuries. The incident has been handed over to the mounties.
Over 1000 people are without power in Saint John, Rothesay and French Village.
NB Power reporting that 6 power outages have affected 1177 of their customers. The unplanned outages started at around 9 p.m. last night. They're estimating that the lights will be back on around lunchtime.
Update: NB Power's Kathleen Duguay tells CHSJ News that that the cause was a broken pole on one of the main service lines in the French Village.
Update #2: Duguay tells CHSJ News they're now aiming to have power restored between 12 p.m. and 3 p.m.
The city-wide manhunt for the second suspect in the Boston Bombings is over. Boston Police announcing via Twitter that 19 year old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was taken into custody on Friday night.
He was found holed up in a boat in a backyard in Watertown, where police say he exchanged gunfire with them for an hour before being captured. Boston Mayor Tom Menino tweeted, "We got him."
He's described as being in serious condition.
