Category Archives: Atlantic
N.B. Tory leader hit from all in debate for calling election during pandemic
FREDERICTON — New Brunswick Progressive Conservative leader and incumbent Premier Blaine Higgs spent much of the first election debate defending his decision to call a snap election and fending off accusations he has a secret plan to cut serv...
Newfoundland and Labrador encouraging residents to use new COVID-19 tracing app
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Newfoundland and Labrador has signed on to use the federal government's new smartphone app that notifies users when they have been in close contact with someone infected with COVID-19. The COVID Ale...
Nova Scotia premier rejects teachers’ allegations that schools are unsafe
HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's premier has accused the province's teachers' union of "creating a bunch of noise and rhetoric" by suggesting public schools are unsafe and in "chaos" because educators haven't been given enough time to p...
New Brunswick Liberals promise subsidy for home renos, Greens release platform
FREDERICTON — New Brunswick's Liberal leader pledged to create an incentive program for home renovations Thursday on the campaign trail, while the Green party released its platform, promising a $15 minimum wage and to lower the legal vot...
N.S. teachers’ union says schools ‘in chaos,’ asks government to delay reopening
HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's teachers are warning that the province's schools aren't ready to reopen as planned next week. The Nova Scotia Teachers Union issued a news release Wednesday claiming schools are "in chaos." The union says members are r...
Former N.L. inmates launch class action over alleged harm from solitary confinement
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Newfoundland and Labrador is being targeted with a class-action lawsuit on behalf of inmates held in solitary confinement for periods longer than two weeks. St. John's-based law firm, Morris Martin Moore, announced its ...
Blaine Higgs tries to focus N.B. voters’ attention on his COVID-19 response
FREDERICTON — New Brunswick's Progressive Conservatives delivered an election campaign announcement Wednesday about education, but not before Premier Blaine Higgs made a point of repeatedly crowing about his leadership dur...
Deceased former principal secretary of N.B. vice-regal office embezzled funds: RCMP
FREDERICTON — A senior civil servant who had control of the former New Brunswick lieutenant-governor's finances is accused of siphoning hundreds of thousands of dollars in public funds into his personal coffers between 2012 and 2019. Cou...
New Brunswick Liberals promise to eliminate interest on provincial student loans
FREDERICTON — Liberal Leader Kevin Vickers promised Tuesday that if elected, his government would stop collecting its share of interest on New Brunswick student loans for residents who choose to live in the province after graduating. Loan rec...
N.B. party leaders promise action to stop use of industrial herbicide
FREDERICTON — The Liberals and Greens promised to eliminate the use of industrial herbicide on public land across the province Monday, as New Brunswick's election campaign entered its final two weeks. Liberal Leader Kevin Vickers said he would end...
