Category Archives: Atlantic
N.L., N.B. combat community spread of COVID-19 while case numbers fall in N.S.
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador were both battling COVID-19 community spread Wednesday as case numbers crept downward in Nova Scotia. Health officials announced a concerning case of community transmission in New Brunswick...
Nova Scotia companies chosen to help build Canada’s first commercial spaceport
HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia company planning to build Canada's first commercial spaceport announced on Wednesday some of the firms it has chosen to design and construct its proposed launch pad. Maritime Launch Services says it picked Strum Consulting, St...
Municipal elections: New Brunswick’s three biggest cities elect women as mayors
FREDERICTON — New Brunswick's three biggest cities have elected women as their mayors. Results of the May 10 municipal elections were announced Tuesday night after polls closed in the Edmundston-Madawaska region, where voting had been delayed because ...
N.S. needs bigger push to remedy decades of neglect in non-profit housing: study
HALIFAX — A new report says Nova Scotia needs a major push to create publicly funded, non-profit housing to make up for over 25 years of lost ground. The Nova Scotia office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives argues in
With a cluster growing in rural Newfoundland, COVID-19 is no longer the ‘townie flu’
COMFORT COVE-NEWSTEAD, N.L. — With a cluster of 44 COVID-19 cases in central Newfoundland, Comfort Cove-Newstead, Mayor Peter Watkins says it's probably time locals stop calling the disease the "townie flu." "You've got to call it the world flu now," W...
Health officials in New Brunswick report nine new cases of COVID-19
FREDERICTON — Health officials in New Brunswick are reporting nine new cases of COVID-19 today. The cases involve six people in the Moncton, N.B., region and three in the Fredericton area. Chief medical officer of health Dr. Jennifer Russell says the...
Nova Scotia COVID-19 vaccine rollout ahead of schedule, booster shots moved up
HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's COVID-19 vaccination rollout is ahead of schedule and should see second doses being administered two to four weeks earlier than originally planned, officials said Tuesday. The first people due for their booster shots — health-ca...
Officials widen restricted area in N.L. due to growing COVID-19 cluster
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — A growing cluster of COVID-19 cases and contacts in Newfoundland and Labrador's central region prompted officials to impose the second-highest alert level over a larger swath of the province on Monday as they try to curb
Families vow to continue land battle in New Brunswick’s Kouchibouguac National Park
KOUCHIBOUGUAC, N.B. — A group of 50 people gathered last week on a grassy area overlooking the Fontaine River on New Brunswick's east coast to share memories and erect a teepee. Their answer for why they were there was simple:
New Brunswick reports second blood clot death linked to Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine
FREDERICTON — New Brunswick is reporting a second death in the province related to a rare blood-clotting event from the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. Chief medical officer of health Dr. Jennifer Russell said Friday the person in their 50s received their ...