CBC - P.E.I. (5 hours ago)
Endometriosis is a condition in which tissue similar to what grows inside the uterus starts growing outside of it instead. That can cause significant mid-body pain, as well as fertility issues. P.E.I. currently does not have any specialists to treat the condition.
ReadCBC - P.E.I. (6 hours ago)
Amy MacArthur has become a fierce advocate for people in Atlantic Canada who live with endometriosis, a chronic disease affecting those born with a uterus. CBC News: Compass host Louise Martin spoke with MacArthur to find out why she founded Endo Project Atlantic and the work the group is doing.
ReadCBC - Nova Scotia (7 hours ago)
Nova Scotia's environment minister says the province is well on its way to reducing greenhouse gas emissions to meet the Paris Agreement target for 2030, but he cannot say how it would make up for setbacks if new carbon-emitting industries take root — as the premier is pushing for.
ReadCBC - Newfoundland (7 hours ago)
Newfoundland and Labrador's new universal electronic health information system is set to go online province-wide Saturday. Family doctors who are based in NLHS-operated facilities want more time to adopt CorCare in their own clinics while they use it in the emergency department.
ReadCBC - Nova Scotia (7 hours ago)
Crosskill Court is one of seven facilities that offer the enriched housing program under the Nova Scotia Provincial Housing Agency. The long-running program, which has been available at Crosskill Court since the 1990s, offers an alternative to seniors who do not want to live at home but don't require the level of services offered in long-term care.
ReadCBC - Newfoundland (8 hours ago)
The RCMP made six missions to search for Jennifer Hillier-Penney's body in the waters near Hare Bay Islands off St. Anthony, N.L., and searched over 130 points of interest. In his testimony in Corner Brook Supreme Court on Thursday, RCMP Cpl. Steven Hatch said the searches came up with nothing.
ReadCBC - Nova Scotia (19 hours ago)
A Nova Scotia family is speaking out after their 19-year-old son was taken to hospital following multiple suicide attempts. After being assessed, he was sent by taxi to a local homeless shelter. The teen and his parents say it felt like hospital staff were more concerned about clearing a bed than helping him.
ReadCBC - P.E.I. (19 hours ago)
A fisherman from Souris, P.E.I., will be testing the latest version of his lobster counting and grading system that was made with the help of UPEI's sustainable design and engineering students. The faculty's current cohort are wrapping up their final projects, hoping for similar success. CBC's Nancy Russell has more.
ReadCBC - P.E.I. (A day ago)
The Prince Edward Island Fishermen's Association announced Tuesday on social media that its members held a call with Fisheries and Oceans Canada officials to discuss upcoming weather and the harbour dredging process. April 25 was originally set as opening day but was delayed until April 28.
ReadCBC - P.E.I. (A day ago)
Lobster fishers who are about to start their spring season in North Lake, P.E.I., have another concern as setting day approaches — one many say is a first for them. There's an overturned dredge stuck just outside the community's harbour. CBC's Steve Bruce explains.
ReadCBC - New Brunswick (A day ago)
The mayor of a New Brunswick municipality is questioning the threshold the province uses for declaring a flood, after one was declared for the community of Gagetown, despite there being no visible impact, he said, to infrastructure like roads or buildings.
ReadCBC - New Brunswick (A day ago)
After another N.B. Power transmission line problem left more than 4,500 people in Edmundston without power on Wednesday, the mayor said he is "fed up." Eric Marquis is calling for the utility to replace Line 70, a 60-year-old transmission line at the heart of the outages dating back to 2019.
ReadCBC - P.E.I. (A day ago)
The school year is winding down at the University of Prince Edward Island, but for students returning in the fall, it's going to cost more. UPEI is increasing tuition for Canadian and international students by 6.5 per cent and 7.5 per cent, respectively.
ReadCBC - Nova Scotia (A day ago)
The municipality is reminding young people of something that seems obvious — never ride on the outside of a bus. This follows recent incidents where people climbed atop Halifax Transit buses and recorded it for social media. The CBC's Haley Ryan has the story.
ReadCBC - Newfoundland (A day ago)
The provincial government has agreed to write a cheque for $45.8M to help compensate those who were abused at Catholic-run institutions in Newfoundland and Labrador, with a judge expected to approve the tentative settlement on Friday in St. John's.
ReadCBC - Newfoundland (A day ago)
With Dean Penney sitting on one side of a desk, and Rudy — as he can only be identified as — sitting on the other, Penney is seen in a video describing how he struck his estranged wife. Warning: this video contains language and descriptions some may find offensive.
ReadCBC - New Brunswick (A day ago)
According to a statement from the Department of Agriculture, Aquaculture and Fisheries, the New Brunswick Provincial Veterinary Laboratory identified a presumptive positive case of rabies in a raccoon in Little Ridge, just northwest of St. Stephen, and testing to confirm the case is underway.
ReadCBC - Nova Scotia (2 days ago)
Coming off her first legislative session since leaving the Nova Scotia government cabinet and the Progressive Conservative caucus, the MLA for Lunenburg West wants the people in her district to provide feedback on her future, including whether she remains an Independent or explores party affiliation.
ReadCBC - Newfoundland (2 days ago)
Memories of a murder that still ripple through Newfoundland and Labrador are on full display in a new play debuting at the LSPU Hall in St. John's this week. She Is Here was written by Marquita Walsh, a cousin of Samantha Walsh from Fleur de Lys, who was murdered at the age of 13 in 2000.
ReadCBC - P.E.I. (2 days ago)
Some airlines are cancelling flights or adding additional charges in the face of rising jet fuels costs due to the war in the Middle East, but experts in P.E.I. say travellers in this province don't have much to worry about — if they've already paid for their trips.
ReadCBC - P.E.I. (2 days ago)
Several of Canada's premiers were in Ottawa this week talking trade barriers as the July CUSMA review deadline approaches. P.E.I. Premier Rob Lantz says that Canada's trade partners are not an 'either-or situation,' and that strong relationships with both the U.S. and the rest of the world are possible.
ReadCBC - P.E.I. (2 days ago)
The P.E.I. Rape and Sexual Assault Centre is introducing a new approach to therapy aimed at helping survivors of sexual violence access support across the Island. CBC News: Compass host Louise Martin sat down with Jillian Kilfoil, the centre's executive director, about how the model will improve accessibility and reach.
ReadCBC - Newfoundland (2 days ago)
Andrea Barbour made a social media post with a photo of herself in front of The Rooms in St. John's Tuesday, but something wasn't quite right. A nonexistent logo was in place of the museum's iconic caribou sculpture. The post was met with swift criticism.
ReadCBC - Nova Scotia (3 days ago)
Devices that look for weapons or items that could be used as a weapon were installed at the Halifax Infirmary following a stabbing last year. Some of the items now in the hospital's possession include knives, box cutters, a hacksaw and what one official calls "improvised weapons."
ReadCBC - Newfoundland (3 days ago)
A new recorded interview between Dean Penney and an undercover RCMP officer posing as a crime boss shows Penney confessing that he hit his estranged wife, Jennifer Hillier-Penney, multiple times with a hammer after she was pushed down a set of stairs.
ReadCBC - New Brunswick (3 days ago)
N.B. Power has been fined $75,000 in relation to the death of a linesman who was killed in a 2023 workplace accident. The utility plead guilty in February to failing to have an evacuation plan in place for injured workers, and the judge handed down the sentence on Monday in a Moncton courtroom.
ReadCBC - P.E.I. (3 days ago)
It's alleged Gilles Arsenault approved a $100,000 donation from P.E.I. Ocean View Resort in Summerside, which had applied to work within a wetland in fall 2024. The donation went to Comité Diversité et Equité, a group within Arsenault's Evangeline-Miscouche constituency.
ReadCBC - Nova Scotia (3 days ago)
Half of the 12 provincial museums that were slated for closure are going to reopen with support from a provincial funding program, but the executive director of the Association of Nova Scotia Museums is concerned that more institutions are vying for a share of a reduced funding pot.
ReadCBC - Nova Scotia (3 days ago)
The Nova Scotia government ordered an end to remote work arrangements for its unionized employees starting Monday. Sandra Mullen, president of the Nova Scotia Government and General Employees Union, shares what she's hearing from members and why the union filed a grievance on the issue.
ReadCBC - P.E.I. (3 days ago)
The university has been working on the new policy since law firm Rubin Thomlinson's report concluded UPEI "failed to create a safe, respectful, and positive environment for working and learning for all members of its community" and described the campus as having "dire" problems.
ReadCBC - New Brunswick (5 days ago)
New Brunswick's feathered friends are enjoying the spring weather. If you get any nice shots, be sure to send them to us at [email protected] for a chance to be featured in next week's edition of Your Lens.
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