The latest figures from Canada Mortgage and Housing show home builders are busy in the greater Saint John area.
The federal housing agency is reporting the number of new units started between January and August up 12-percent over last year.
Moncton is reporting a 59-percent increase while Fredericton numbers are up 3-percent over the same period last year.
Here in Saint John -- construction of multiple residential units is leading the way so far this year.
Its just a bit more expensive for you to buy gas in the city after the weekly setting. Self serve regular rose by the slightest of margins and is now at 96 and a half cents a litre while diesel is also a bit higher at $102.9. Propane increased as well with the maximum price listed at $102.8
Arson is suspected after yet another fire at the same building in the old north end in just the past few months. City Police telling CHSJ News the building at 78 Victoria Street has been abandoned and this is the second such fire since April.
(Police Chief Bill Reid)
(File Photo)
The Saint John Police Commission is coming out in support of keeping the long gun registry. Chief Bill Reid says police officers don't want to be taken by surprise when they're called to a domestic dispute for instance........They want to know if there is a weapon at hand before responding.
Reid says in 2008 alone, the registry was used 130 thousand times in just this province. The Chief and the Police Commission will have more to say about this on September 15th which has been chosen as a day to show support for the gun registry.
Reid says he plans to make his views known to Saint John M-P Rodney Weston before then. Weston is a member of the Harper Government which has long wanted to scrap the gun registry which costs 4 million dollars a year to operate.
(Mayor Ivan Court)
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Mayor Ivan Court says the city will be reviewing the lifeguard situation in the wake of Sunday afternoon's drowning at Fisher Lakes but it would be unrealistic to suggest that that all such tragedies can be prevented.
Court, who lost a son himself, says he can well understand how the the family of the man who drowned feels.
He adds there are some people, though, who will swim until the end of September or even into October if they could and tells CHSJ News he even got some flak over the closing of Saint's Rest Beach on Saturday because of tropical storm Earl. There were fears someone might get caught up in the waves if they got too close.
(Police Chief Bill Reid, Randy White, Joshua Doyle and Jared Laming)
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Certificates of Merit have been awarded by the Police Commission to Joshua Doyle, Jared Laming and Randy White for saving a man from drowning in Treadwell Lake near the airport on May 29th.
Doyle tells CHSJ News they just reacted reflexively after hearing the man yelling for help. Doyle and Laming paddled out into the lake in a canoe while White pulled out a floating dock.
Laming says it's not really the award that matters but the fact they will live the rest of their lives knowing they helped someone from dying.
(Parent Dean Secord Who Appeared Before District 8 Schoolboard)
(Photo by Tamara Steele)
A parent came to the District 8 Education Council meeting last night expressing concern about the wait list policy for Grade 9. Each of the four high schools has a cap of 250 students and once a school exceeds the cap, students go on a waiting list.
Dean Secord tells CHSJ News his son, Cameron is number 14 on an 18 student waitlist at St. Malachy's. In the meantime, he is attending Harbourview High.
Superintendent Susan Tipper says the wait list is still long because of the success rate of students passing Grade 8. She is not sure if they will get through the list this year.
Secord is also a member of the Saint John Police Department and ran unsuccessfully for the Conservative Party nomination in Saint John Lancaster.
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