CBC - P.E.I. (3 hours 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. (6 hours 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 (6 hours 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 (7 hours 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. (7 hours 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 (7 hours 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 (8 hours 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 (10 hours 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 (10 hours 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 (12 hours 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 (19 hours 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 - Nova Scotia (A day ago)
Ontario Premier Doug Ford has reversed course on the purchase of a $28.9-million private jet for his travel — a controversy that has raised questions about how often Canada's leaders fly on private aircraft. CBC News reached out to offices of the premier from coast to coast, to see how the provinces book air travel.
ReadCBC - P.E.I. (A day 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. (A day 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. (A day 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 (A day 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 (2 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 (2 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 (2 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. (2 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 (2 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 (2 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. (2 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 (4 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.
ReadCBC - New Brunswick (5 days ago)
A few bad apples have made life more difficult for student and senior riders on Moncton's Codiac Transpo. Those who qualify for a discount will now have to make an extra trip to Codiac Transpo's office and show their identification in order to purchase discounted digital tickets through the new Codiac+ app.
ReadCBC - P.E.I. (5 days ago)
It was a busy week in the P.E.I. Legislature, including the tabling of the government's operational budget and questions about cabinet minister Sidney MacEwen's fishing licence. CBC News: Compass host Louise Martin spoke with Sally Pitt and Paul MacNeill to get their takes.
ReadCBC - Nova Scotia (5 days ago)
Three men involved in a Hells Angels hit in Dartmouth, N.S., more than 25 years ago are now out of prison on day parole. Dean Daniel Kelsie, Neil Smith and Wayne Alexander James were given life sentences for their roles in the shooting death of Sean Simmons in October 2000.
ReadCBC - Newfoundland (5 days ago)
The Mary Brown's Centre in St. John's will be jam packed with hockey fans Friday night, as the Newfoundland Regiment squares off against the Blainville-Boisbriand Armada for Game 5 of the second round of the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League playoffs.
ReadCBC - Nova Scotia (6 days ago)
Technology is deeply embedded in Canadian classrooms, but some Nova Scotia parents say the public education system relies too heavily on screen use. They are questioning why, when and how technology is introduced to their kids, and they think parents should have more say in these decisions.
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