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Prime Minister Mark Carney will meet virtually with the country's premiers Tuesday afternoon after the U.S. announced increased tariffs on Canadian goods. P.E.I. Premier Rob Lantz said Tuesday morning at the Council of the Federation meeting in Charlottetown that the virtual meeting with the prime minister had been added to the agenda. Carney was originally scheduled to meet with premiers...
CHARLOTTETOWN -- Prime Minister Mark Carney will meet virtually with the country's premiers Tuesday afternoon after the U.S. announced increased tariffs on Canadian goods.
Domestic trade and major projects will be on the agenda as Canada's premiers gather Tuesday in Prince Edward Island for a three-day meeting coloured by a renewed tariff threat from U.S. President Donald Trump. The annual summer gathering of provincial and territorial leaders will culminate with Prime Minister Mark Carney joining the discussion Thursday. The premiers will also meet with...
CHARLOTTETOWN -- Domestic trade and major projects will be on the agenda as Canada's premiers gather Tuesday in Prince Edward Island for a three-day meeting coloured by a renewed tariff threat from U.S. President Donald Trump.
FREDERICTON -- One of the Prince Edward Island paramedics who died in an ambulance crash earlier this week is being remembered as a loving daughter and trusted coworker.
FREDERICTON -- The New Brunswick government is dismissing concerns it treated a municipality unfairly when it chose a First Nation to operate the beach at a provincial park.
FREDERICTON -- The New Brunswick government must empower social workers to do what's best for vulnerable young people in care, youth advocates told lawmakers this week.
FREDERICTON -- Hearings into the systemic failures that led to the overdose death of a New Brunswick teenager are scheduled to continue Thursday afternoon as lawmakers look for ways to improve the province's youth social services.
FREDERICTON -- Hearings continue today at New Brunswick's legislature into the systemic failures of the Social Development Department.
FREDERICTON -- A New Brunswick official has promised changes to the way the province helps vulnerable youth as lawmakers started hearings Wednesday into an advocate's report detailing failures within the Social Development Department.
FREDERICTON -- Tammy Nash says a smoke detector likely saved her son's life when their family home caught fire in 2010 on the Sitansisk First Nation in central New Brunswick.
FREDERICTON -- New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt has called on the federal government to prohibit children under 16 from using social media.
MONCTON -- Food banks in New Brunswick are receiving a provincial cash boost for the next three years.
FREDERICTON -- One of the first Green Party politicians elected in Canada says he's resigning as leader of New Brunswick's Greens ahead of the next provincial election.
FREDERICTON -- New Brunswick's Opposition leader is calling on the Liberal government to put off the province's planned shift to a new virtual-health-care provider.
FREDERICTON -- New Brunswick legislators have agreed to hold hearings on systemic failures within the province's child welfare system.
FREDERICTON -- A New Brunswick cabinet minister says early talks have started on an Indigenous-led public inquiry into systemic racism.
FREDERICTON -- The New Brunswick government says it plans to tell each municipality across the province how much it should raise property taxes every year.
FREDERICTON -- New Brunswick's government has tabled a bill to create the office of an advocate for residents and small businesses at the province's energy regulator.
FREDERICTON -- The New Brunswick government says it will make sweeping changes to its debt-saddled public power utility -- but would not commit to avoiding rate freezes that a recent review blamed for driving more than a billion dollars of debt.
FREDERICTON -- The New Brunswick government says it will create a consumer advocate role to represent residents and small businesses at its energy regulator.
FREDERICTON -- The New Brunswick government says it's unveiling an investment in new amphibious aircraft this morning.
An LGBTQ+ advocate says Canada is at critical juncture where it must decide whether it will be inclusive of everyone or not.
FREDERICTON -- New Brunswick's government has introduced a bill to make it easier to launch mining projects in the province.
FREDERICTON -- The New Brunswick government has proposed an overhaul of its lobbying rules that would require hundreds more people to register as lobbyists and would empower the provincial ethics chief to fine rule breakers.
FREDERICTON -- New Brunswick's government is proposing significant changes to its lobbying rules.
FREDERICTON -- Some New Brunswickers are waking up Tuesday morning to new mayors, while others re-elected familiar faces in Monday's municipal elections.
FREDERICTON -- Residents across New Brunswick are electing their local representatives today.
FREDERICTON -- New Brunswick's Indigenous Affairs minister says he isn't worried a recent series of raids by the RCMP in three different provinces will derail his negotiations with First Nations to improve controls over the sale of cannabis products.
FREDERICTON -- A popular potato chip maker in New Brunswick says it is continuing efforts to limit its facility's impact on nearby residents.
FREDERICTON -- A New Brunswick cabinet minister says he's not worried an RCMP raid on a First Nations cannabis warehouse will damage government-Indigenous relations.
FREDERICTON -- New Brunswick's government has tabled a pair of new bills it says will stimulate economic growth and improve patient safety.
FREDERICTON -- An environmental lawyer is calling for New Brunswick to enshrine into law the right to clean water.
FREDERICTON -- New Brunswick's Opposition leader says he's expecting the governing Liberals to release their long-awaited overhaul to the system that sets property taxes, which have jumped sharply in recent years because of a rapid rise in home values.
FREDERICTON -- The Green Party of Canada says it's working to regain registered status for a key riding association in New Brunswick.
FREDERICTON -- New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt says she's shuffling around several provincial senior staff as of May 1.
FREDERICTON -- From green to red and now blazing her own path with a purple-branded campaign, a former Fredericton-area member of Parliament is putting her name in for local office.
FREDERICTON -- Prime Minister Mark Carney has criticized New Brunswick's plan to set up a highway toll by its boundary with Nova Scotia amid efforts by his government to remove domestic trade barriers.
FREDERICTON -- The New Brunswick government says it's aiming to grow its economy by 10 per cent within the next four years.
CHARLOTTETOWN -- Prince Edward Island's transportation minister has resigned from cabinet to avoid breaking conflict of interest rules.
Prime Minister Mark Carney has criticized New Brunswick's plan to set up a highway toll by its boundary with Nova Scotia amid efforts by his government to remove domestic trade barriers. Carney said Thursday he will increase pressure on provinces to do their part after his government adopted legislation to remove all federal barriers to interprovincial trade. "No, I'm not...
