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Atlantic Canada emergency crews respond to serious incidents as Alberta debates diversification

Emergency crews have responded to serious assaults, a traffic collision, a mobile home fire in Atlantic Canada; Alberta opinion pieces call for reduced dependence on oil, gas.

W.C. Miller Collegiate Grade 12 student Alyssa Ewankevich has loved her internship experience at the Altona & District Heritage Research Centre. (Photo by Lori Penner)
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Overview

  • The RNC Major Crime Unit is seeking public tips on a serious assault that left a man injured on George Street in downtown St. John’s on May 24.
  • An SUV struck a young boy riding a bicycle at Montague and Watson streets in St. John’s on June 2, leaving him in serious condition at hospital.
  • Summerside officers forced entry to a mobile home engulfed in flames before 3 a.m. on June 3 to rescue a family, including a one-year-old child, unharmed.
  • Clarenville RCMP have opened a probe into the overnight theft of roughly $20,000 in construction tools, and New Brunswick RCMP charged a man after seizing cocaine, methamphetamine and ecstasy following a stolen motorcycle pursuit.
  • Letters in the Edmonton Sun argue that Alberta’s heavy reliance on oil, gas revenue threatens public finances and call for broader economic diversification.