The new Grant-Harvey Centre opens this week in Fredericton with a state-of-the-art geothermal system that enables the centre to produce and sell heat and air conditioning to neighbouring buildings. The centre also contains both NHL and Olympic-sized rinks and will host speed skating and sledge hockey. These stories appear in the Thurs., Sept, 27 edition …
Category Archives: News Reporting
Weekly stories in the Oromocto Post-Gazette
Look for my stories in the Oromocto-Post Gazette, covering the Town of Oromocto, N.B. and Canadian Forces Base Gagetown. [Link to Brunswick News]
Sealers and protesters headed for showdown
SYDNEY – Local sealers heading to the Gulf of St. Lawrence for the annual harp seal hunt are in for a showdown with anti-sealing activists, both sides acknowledged Monday. [Full story]
Wilcox challenge dismissed
Defence lawyers in the court martial of Cpl. Matthew Wilcox lost a second constitutional challenge Tuesday before continuing with a third challenge, this time to the jury selection process. [Full story]
Soldier accused of murder loses constitutional challenge
My stories summarizing the military court’s decisions in each constitutional challenge also ran across the country. This story dealing with the question of judicial independence appeared in the Montreal Gazette . [Full story]
N.S. court martial unconstitutional, lawyers argue
National Post My series of stories covering the court martial of a soldier charged in a shooting death in Afghanistan, and the ensuing constitutional challenges to Canada’s military justice system, ran in newspapers across the country. This story covering the opening day of proceedings ran in the National Post. [Full story]
Officer in RCMP shooting may have felt his life was in danger
In the wake of a fatal shooting on the Wagmatcook First Nation in Cape Breton in 2008, I interviewed the deceased’s widow, who described the chaotic scene at the time of the shooting. From the Cape Breton Post [Full story]
John McNeil 