Category Archives: Atlantic
Nova Scotia invests $25 million for new hospital in North Cumberland region
PUGWASH, N.S. — The Nova Scotia government says it will invest about $25 million to replace the North Cumberland Memorial Hospital. Health Minister Randy Delorey said today in a news release the new hospital in Pugwash, N.S., about 170 kilometres north...
N.S. premier apologizes to Black, Indigenous people for systemic racism in province
HALIFAX — Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil apologized Tuesday to Black and Indigenous Nova Scotians for systemic racism in the province's justice system, and said the government is committed to reform.Institutions such as the police and the courts ha...
Fredericton city councillors divided after poet laureate reads abortion poem
Fredericton city council is considering ending the custom of opening public meetings with a poem after the city's poet laureate read lyrical verses about abortion during a meeting Monday night. Poet laureate Jenna Lyn Albert triggered the controv...
Mi’kmaq lobster fishery in Nova Scotia grows to 10 boats from seven
SAULNIERVILLE, N.S. — An Indigenous-run lobster fishery off the coast of southwestern Nova Scotia is slightly increasing the size of its fleet to 10 boats from seven, creating a total capacity of 500 traps. Rhonda Knockwood, the director of operations ...
New Brunswick Liberals choose Roger Melanson as interim leader of Opposition
FREDERICTON — The New Brunswick Liberals have chosen a member of the legislature from Moncton and former cabinet minister as the party's interim leader. Roger Melanson, the member for the Dieppe riding, will become leader of the Off...
Mi’kmaq power, inside and beyond Ottawa, stronger than in past fishery battles
HALIFAX — When Jaime Battiste was in his early 20s, cable news channels were full of images of Mi'kmaq fishermen in New Brunswick battling federal fisheries officers over seized lobster traps. Now, Canada's first Mi'kmaq MP is on the ins...
Demonstration in Fredericton as private abortion clinic to lose its doctor
FREDERICTON — A doctor who runs a private abortion clinic in Fredericton says he can't afford to continue subsidizing the service and is leaving the practice for another job at the end of this month. Dr. Adrian Edgar says he's applied for a
‘Not a conservation concern’: N.S. Mi’kmaq won’t deplete lobster stock, says expert
HALIFAX — An Indigenous-run lobster fishery off the coast of southwestern Nova Scotia isn't the big environmental threat that it's being made out to be, according to a fisheries expert. The contentious fishery started by the Sipekne'katik Fir...
Brenda Robertson, first woman elected to New Brunswick legislature, dies at 91
FREDERICTON — Brenda Robertson, the first woman elected to New Brunswick's legislature and to serve as a cabinet minister, has died at the age of 91. Robertson died at her home in Riverview, N.B., on Wednesday, surrounded by family and b...
Atlantic Canada airports estimate 92 per cent drop in summer travel
HALIFAX — Atlantic Canada's airports say they need more money from the federal government to cope with a massive decline in airline traffic owing to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Atlantic Canada Airports Association said today the 11 airports it repr...
