Mayor Adam Lordon said he never intended to misrepresent the position of local MLAs when he said said he was encouraged by the support demonstrated for the proposed multiplex during a recent meeting.

Lordon had made the statement in a recent article in the Miramichi Leader.

That prompted Southwest Miramichi-Bay du Vin MLA Mike Dawson to fire off a scathing letter to the mayor, saying he has concerns about the project and does not support it.

Lordon told the Leader his intention was to express that the meeting in question felt positive.

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The price of gasoline is up slightly this morning.

The maximum price of regular self-rose by a cent overnight when the Energy and Utilities Board made its week price adjustment at midnight.

The new max is $1.77.2 a litre.

Heating oil dropped by around half a cent overnight to $2.13.

And Diesel also fell by half a cent to a new max of $2.34.4.

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The Higgs government has introduced a bill that would allow Medicare to pay for some simple surgeries outside of hospitals.

The bill would lead to a two-year pilot project in Bathurst that would move cataract surgeries to a local clinic.

The hope is that would free up at least two days of surgical times at the local hospital.

Health Minister Bruce Fitch said he expects to widen the lists of surgeries as time goes on.

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Horizon Health says it is making major changes to its sexual assault nurse examiner program.

Those changes include plans to increase staffing, develop a provincial education strategy, form a provincial governance committee, and a rebranding as forensic nurse examiner services.

The changes come following an internal review.

The move will cost the province $1.16 million.

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Several temperature records were set across the province yesterday, including here in Miramichi.

The temperature yesterday reached 23 degrees in the city, breaking the previous record of 22.6 degrees from 2017.

Doaktown also broke its record reaching 23.1 degrees. The previous record of 21.7 degrees was set back in 1963.