An investigator with the Department of Justice and Public Safety has found that a Saint John jail guard abused his authority when he repeatedly punched an inmate who was on remand at the facility in September 2022.
New Brunswick is facing a "crisis of policing," especially in rural areas, and will soon have to make some hard decisions, according to a criminology professor.
Former Progressive Conservative cabinet minister Margaret-Ann Blaney has cleared another hurdle in her legal challenge to her 2015 firing by a Liberal government.
An independent commission has rejected the Higgs government's proposals on salaries and pensions for provincial court judges. And the province says it accepts that decision and will go along with the commission's recommendations.