Hockey Canada won’t say what next steps have been taken – if any – after Tyler Totten, a Fredericton Junior ‘A’ Red Wings player, was charged with manslaughter in the death of a New Brunswick man in September. Photo: Fredericton Red Wings

Hockey Canada won’t say what next steps have been taken – if any – after a Fredericton Junior ‘A’ Red Wings player was charged with manslaughter in the death of a New Brunswick man in September.

Tyler Totten, 19, is among four charged.

Three others are jointly charged with the hockey player but cannot be identified, per the Youth Criminal Justice Act, because they are under the age of 18.

A 41-year-old man was seriously assaulted in the city’s Tannery district in the early hours of Sept. 22, police reported at the time. He later died of his injuries. He has not been identified in court when Brunswick News attended.

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New Brunswick will see at least 240 new nursing home beds come online over the next two years.  

Half of these beds are set to open in Oromocto and in Moncton in December 2025, while the remainder are to come online in Bathurst and in Saint-Antoine in June 2026.  

Each of the four communities were awarded 60 new beds as part of the province’s 2018-2023 Nursing Home Plan, according to the Department of Social Development.  

Despite the five-year timeframe of that plan now over, department spokesperson Kate Wright told Brunswick News there isn’t a delay around opening these 240 new nursing home beds.  

“These projects are on track,” Wright said in an email. “The construction of new facilities takes some time after contracts are awarded for service.” 

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A cargo ship is unloaded at Saint John's port. Port CEO Craig Bell Estabrooks said the threat of a 25-per-cent tariff on Canadian goods entering the United States by president-elect Donald Trump seems to have been prompted by border security. He sees it as an opportunity to properly equip Canada Border Services Agency. Photo: Brice McVicar/Brunswick News

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In a rush to provide emergency loans to small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government pushed out a program that doled out more than $3.5 billion to ineligible recipients, gave too much control to a single private contractor, and failed to ensure public money was not wasted, according to a new report from the auditor general. The program, reported the Toronto Star, doled out $49.1 billion in loans to almost 900,000 small businesses. In a new report tabled Monday, Auditor General Karen Hogan concluded the program moved quickly in response to the crisis, disbursing loans in a matter of days when health measures forced hundreds of thousands of businesses to shut down.

Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter Biden on Sunday night, a reversal for the president who repeatedly said he would not use his executive authority to pardon his son or commute his sentence. "I believe in the justice system, but as I have wrestled with this, I also believe raw politics has infected this process and it led to a miscarriage of justice — and once I made this decision this weekend, there was no sense in delaying it further," Biden said in his statement, NBC News reported. Hunter Biden was scheduled to be sentenced Dec. 12 for his conviction on federal gun charges. He also was set to be sentenced Dec. 16 in a separate criminal case in which he pleaded guilty to federal tax evasion charges in September.

Canada Post has presented the union representing some 55,000 striking postal workers with a framework to reach negotiated agreements, the corporation said. A statement issued Sunday said the framework includes proposals to bring greater flexibility to the Crown corporation’s delivery model and shows "movement on other key issues" in the labour dispute, reported The Canadian Press. "It is our hope that these proposals will reignite discussions and, together with the support of mediators, help the parties work toward final agreements," said the statement, which was provided to the media over email.