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the harbour infill project step up their protest. And for those in the region looking for wet weather. The tuesday forecast holds rain and showers. >> From our maritimes news centre, this is ctv news at 6:00. Is todd battis. >> Good evening premier blaine higgs has yanked a quebec-based sex education program from new brunswick schools. He called it and inappropriate presentation after complaints from parents as ctv's derek haggett tells us, advocates are angered by the ban. And we should note this report does contain richer material. >> A sexual how specialist is still upset 3 days after premier blaine higgs lashed out at one of her presentations at a new brunswick school. >> I bet a presentation. >> Hey, it's posted on social media friday that a number of parents shared photos of what he called clearly inappropriate material presented a high school last week to say I am furious would be a gross understatement. Road hogs. Higgs says the presentation was not part of the province's curriculum. That's false, says nurse who stresses the presentation was vetted and approved by the department of education in advance. She also says she's been doing the same presentation for years at dozens of new brunswick schools. >> Like being put in a situation. It's making us look like our organization is providing inappropriate information. >> And 2 students, I I think that's why I rectify the group is not permitted to present again at any schools in the province. >> Ctv news requested an interview with haig's or education minister bill hogan, but did not hear back from the province. That post was irresponsible. >> Dangerous, harmful and divisive. >> Retired teacher gail costello says hicks cherry pick the front cover of the presentation. >> And that front cover was quotes directly from students that students had sexual health expert norris was up for new brunswick high school's last week, but declined to say which one's the province wouldn't name them either. >> I asked theresa norris upper organization is considering legal action over the matter. She says they're looking to resolve the issue right now with the province not create any more problems. Derek haggett, ctv news, moncton. A 57 year-old pei man has died following a boating accident in the summerside harbour. >> Rcmp say there were 2 men in an oyster door. Ian the harbour saturday evening when they believe the boat hit a channel marker and one went overboard. The man remained on the boat, tried to rescue the man he was able to bring him to shore and called 9-1-1. 57 year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene. The fire destroyed a home and set a firefighter to hospital in kentville nova scotia late last night. >> Huyer chief scott hamilton says crews were called to the blaze at 33 sherry avenue around 11 o'clock last night when crews arrived, the heaviest of the fire was in the kitchen home, which was divided into 2 apartment units was destroyed. All 4 tenants made it out without injury. One firefighter was taken to hospital as a precaution, but later released a cause of the fire remains under investigations. >> Crown prosecutors in new brunswick could soon be walking a picket line instead of arguing cases in court. Prosecutors have voted 99% in favour of strike action. If they don't get a deal. They've been negotiating for more than a year. Conciliation talks are set for june. They argue the province's criminal justice said that's a criminal justice system is in a state of crisis. We have an encouraging healthcare develop development to report the wait for an mri in the halifax area is about to get shorter. Ctv late anchor bruce frisko joins us with details. And bruce set perhaps significantly lower. >> Yeah, well said todd, the dartmouth, the general hospital foundation officially cut the ribbon on its new mri suite today. Officials say the 1100 square foot facility houses one and a half t m r I a unit with an orthopedics package. This is a real milestone as the first ever mri at the dartmouth general donors to the hospital foundation contributed 2 million dollars for the machine itself. And the province has pledged almost 11 million to build the sweet and keep it running. Officials say this will be a game changer when it comes to tackling the year long waitlist for mris in the halifax area.

>> So we're going to do an additional 40400 patients a month, 5,000 patients a year. The current wait list of 15,000 patients. So significant we're expected to improve on those numbers to the brain and spinal cord. >> Joined imaging, for example. Or is it an internal drain is a joint areas that see t for example, too nearly as well and some of the solid organ. It imaging that the body in the pelvis, huge benefits of them right and rise really valuable for softer treatment as compared to something like ct. This is good for her own record of a bone. So when we have that to our spectrum. >> Probably noticed the premier was also on hand today. He noted this was a quote, shining example of what can happen when the public and private sectors work together. A couple of other interesting facts about this taught officials the mri suite will operate 7 days a week serving between 20 and 25 patients a day and the unit weighs 26,000 pounds. It was so big they had to bring it into the hospital through the roof, which proves that nothing worthwhile as easy, I guess, certainly not health care with scene for us. Thank you very much for that. Of course, bruce has your late newscast right here at 11:30pm tonight. Well, still with madison, we're hearing of paramedics waiting inside in outside hospitals for hours to offload patients in our region. >> But really don't know to what extent that's impacting their ability to respond to calls in new brunswick. Ctv's laura brown explains why. >> It's a job where time is of the essence for kristen says new brunswick paramedics are still spending too much time waiting, sometimes for hours to drop off a patient. I'm still hearing from paramedics that say. >> Yeah, we spent, you know, hours on off-load there were 6 ambulances waiting. It comes down to if the hospital emergency department has the capacity and staff to accept a patient. >> This graphic provided by ambulance new brunswick shows the sharp increase in the number of hours paramedics have spent waiting to offload patients last year. They did see a bit of a decrease horizon ceo margaret melanson said last month. They're working on it. We've been successful, somewhat reducing offload delays for audiences. And so I I take small snippets of time >> With the large green us and so. >> It is a hospital problem and it's not and it's not a paramedic problem. It really impacts on the ability of paramedics to respond to >> But we don't really know how much it's impacted response times. That's because ambulance new brunswick hasn't posted its response time data on its website since 2022 saying a new dispatch system installed in january of 2023 has affected the collection and evaluation of the response times when an ambulance has to come from another. >> A neighbouring or 2 neighbouring jurisdictions away to the city of moncton to do a cardiac arrest in front of the hospital. That's a pretty good measure that there's something wrong with the system and ambulance. New brunswick spokesperson promise they are working on it, that the data is in the hands of the department of health. >> Who are reviewing it? Laura brown, ctv news, fredericton. >> No one was hurt after several shots were fired at a parked car in dartmouth. This happened on valkyrie crescent sunday. No injuries were reported. A man was arrested moments later and appeared in dartmouth provincial court today. Police did not say what time those shots were fired. Drones and drug drops over federal prisons in our region. Have the union representing guards worried about an increase in violence. It says drones are increasingly replacing traditional smuggling methods for every one drone correctional staff sees the union estimates 5 more may have dropped contraband like phones, usb cables, even weapons. You can read producer bill decks, his full report on the issue at our website, ctv news atlantic dot ca. Over a future infill project on the dartmouth side of the halifax harbour has gone quiet. But opponents are still against the plan to dump slate and stepped up their concern along the waterfront. Ctv stephanie tsicos explains. On a sunny day like this, the trail along dartmouth cove is full of people walking, running and biking. This trail is used 365 days of the year, 7 days a week nonstop. It could be busy with construction work later this year. >> If a proposed infill projects gets full approval. However, there are efforts to stop it. Save dartmouth cove signs are up along the trail

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