• The Canadian Press

    They were treating waves of wounded in Gaza. Then an Israeli assault trapped the foreign doctors

    CAIRO (AP) — The 35 American and other international doctors came to Gaza in volunteer teams to help one of the territory’s few hospitals still functioning. They brought suitcases full of medical supplies and had trained for one of the worst war zones in the world. They knew the health care system was decimated and overwhelmed. The reality is even worse than they imagined, they say. Children with horrific amputations. Patients with burns and maggot-filled wounds. Rampant infections. Palestinian

  • Local Journalism Initiative

    Saint John liable to pay victims of accused cop after top court loss

    The City of Saint John will have to pay damages in a class-action lawsuit from alleged victims of sex offender and former police officer Kenneth Estabrooks after its appeal was dismissed at the Supreme Court. Estabrooks is alleged to have sexually assaulted multiple children in Saint John from 1953 to 1975. Saint John had been seeking to reverse a New Brunswick Court of Appeal ruling in favour of Bobby Hayes and other alleged victims that said it could be found vicariously liable for abuse commi