The price of gasoline fell overnight, but heating oil and diesel are both more expensive this morning after the energy and utilities board made its weekly price adjustment at midnight.

The maximum price for regular self-serve gas dropped 4.5 cents overnight to a new max of $1.76.2 per litre.

On the other hand, despite forecasters predictions of a price drop, the maximum price for diesel rose 11 and a half cents and is now $2.82.9 per litre.

Heating oil also rose 11 and a half cents overnight to a new max of $2.61.2.

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Stats Canada is reporting that inflation grew by 6.9 per cent last month here in New Brunswick.

That is up from 6.8 per cent the month earlier.

Nationally, inflation also rose by 6.9 per cent.

Rising fuel prices were mostly to blame.

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Miramichi Mayor Adam Lordon says there will be no residential tax increase for 2023.

In a social media post, Lordon said city council has voted to adopt the general and public services budgets for next year.

Lordon said the budget contains $21 million in real estate investments, $5.9 million dollars in road work
and $3.9 million for projects to improve the water system.

The budget allocates $10 million for the proposed multiplex project.

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The New Brunswick Pharmacists’ Association is warning that the shortage of children’s fever and pain medication will like stretch into next year.

That being said, the association is believes more supply will be hitting shelves in the weeks to come.

A national shortage of children’s acetaminophen and ibuprofen products has been building for months.

The Trudeau government says they have secured a foreign supply of children’s acetaminophen that will be available to consumers in the coming weeks.
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Public Safety Minister Kris Austin told reporters yesterday that his position on bilingualism hasn’t changed.

While Austin said he supports bilingualism, he still believes that the province’s health authorities should merge into one entity, that there should be an end to separate busing for anglophone and francophone students, that fewer bilingual public servants need to be hired in areas where one language is predominate and that the Office of the Official Languages Commissioner should be abolished.

Earlier this week, 21 Acadian and francophone organizations called for Austin to be removed from a committee reviewing the official languages act. That came a week after the prime minister criticized Austin’s appointment to the committee.

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The Timberwolves are in action at home tonight. They host Summerside at 7.