Overview
- An accused in New Brunswick’s early pandemic enforcement case pleaded guilty in Moncton provincial court after years on the run from two missed trials, with sentencing set for May 25.
- Fredericton city councillors approved a feasibility study for a deep overhaul of the 1983 police station at 311 Queen St., including plans for a temporary satellite site to keep services running.
- The police HQ review will probe space shortfalls, end‑of‑life mechanical systems and the building’s flood‑plain risk, and it will map costs, design options and staffing needs before work proceeds.
- A Brunswick News survey found most Fredericton council candidates who responded oppose the city’s NBEx expropriation, even as four businesses have already filed formal objections and hearings are pending for a plan that envisions up to 1,200 housing units on 30 acres appraised at $3.45 million.
- Greater Napanee council ended its community‑foundation grant model and will run local grants in‑house, while the roughly $30,000 endowment already held by the foundation will be given out as local grants, likely in 2027; in Alberta, a letter flagged Elections Alberta’s court action and an RCMP probe into unauthorized voter‑list use affecting nearly 2.9 million people.