Unpublished Newswire

A 10-year-old New Brunswick girl suffered an apparent seizure after buying, and quickly gulping back, two large energy drinks, terrifying her family and spurring calls for a federal ban on the sale of the caffeinated beverages to minors. When Kayla Duguay’s phone rang at 7:30 p.m. last Friday, the Miramichi mother assumed it was her daughter, Brooklyn, asking to be picked up early from a supervised “teen night” at a local recreation complex. Instead, it was centre staff. “They told me they’d already called an ambulance. Brooklyn was having a seizure on the floor.” When Duguay...