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New Brunswick's Tories need to be united and have a clear Conservative identity, says former premier Blaine Higgs. The Progressive Conservative who served as New Brunswick's premier from 2018 to 2024, was at the party's annual general meeting in Fredericton on Saturday. "There has to be a reflection of what it means to be a Conservative. We had 10 per...
FREDERICTON -- New Brunswick's Tories need to be united and have a clear Conservative identity, says former premier Blaine Higgs.
FREDERICTON -- At least three out of the four Atlantic provinces have released data revealing their measles vaccination rates in children are below the 95 per cent threshold recommended by scientists to prevent the disease from spreading.
LORNEVILLE -- A spruce tree in Saint John, N.B., likely dating back to around the time of famed French explorer Samuel de Champlain, is part of a forested area at risk of being paved over to make room for a new kind of habitat: an industrial park expansion west of the port city.
FREDERICTON -- New England governors say tariffs and anti-Canadian rhetoric by the United States government is taking a bite out of tourism, with some states seeing a drop of up to 60 per cent in visitors from north of the border.
FREDERICTON -- New Brunswick's auditor general has found "significant deficiencies" in the operations of the province's public housing agency, saying the stock of subsidized homes managed by the Crown corporation is not well maintained.
FREDERICTON -- The premier of Prince Edward Island is asking the federal government for an update on the timeline to reduce the tolls for the Confederation Bridge and Northumberland Ferries to improve interprovincial trade to and from the mainland.
FREDERICTON -- It's the first oyster season in Prince Edward Island since a destructive parasite was identified in the province's waters last summer, and harvesters are taking stock of the extent of the damage.
FREDERICTON -- New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt has written to Prime Minister Mark Carney calling for urgent action to develop national trade and resource corridors to provide an alternative to trade with the United States.
Canada and Australia have shaken hands to end a potential diplomatic dust-up over a yeast-based spread that many Aussies like on toast and crackers.
FREDERICTON -- The New Brunswick government says it plans to sell the 11 Teslas it owns, in response to United States tariffs and the prominent role that the carmaker's CEO plays in the Donald Trump administration.
FREDERICTON -- The New Brunswick government tabled a $14.3-billion budget Tuesday that has been driven deep into deficit by a promised increase in health-care funding and a contingency fund to deal with U.S. tariff threats.
FREDERICTON -- Nearly seven years after the New Brunswick government went to the Supreme Court to prevent the free movement of alcohol across the country, Premier Susan Holt says the tariff war with the United States is forcing the province to rethink its approach to trade.
FREDERICTON -- An external review of police conduct around the wrongful murder convictions of two New Brunswick men has been completed, but the civilian board that oversees the Saint John, N.B., police force says privacy concerns need to be addressed before it can me made public.
FREDERICTON -- Rob Lantz was sworn in on Friday as the 34th premier of Prince Edward Island, taking over from Dennis King, who resigned earlier in the day after leading the province since 2019.
FREDERICTON -- Graydon Miles was driving down Highway 7 in Ontario last year when he saw an upside down Maple Leaf flying from a pickup truck, along with one flag directing an obscenity at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and another supporting Donald Trump's 2024 presidential bid.
FREDERICTON -- New Brunswick's official languages commissioner says her office has received dozens of complaints from people who could not receive service in French on the province's eVisitNB health platform.
McGill University undergrad Daniel Miksha made a significant decision over the weekend. After hearing the news that U.S. President Donald Trump planned to impose 25 per cent tariffs on Canadian exports, Miksha shelved his plans to apply to Boston University, Yale and Harvard for graduate studies.
FREDERICTON -- McGill University undergrad Daniel Miksha made a significant decision over the weekend.
FREDERICTON -- Premier Susan Holt warned that New Brunswick faces "serious headwinds" if the United States imposes tariffs but promised to hold the line and meet the targets her government has set out for itself.
FREDERICTON -- New Brunswick has launched a new website that will track the progress the Liberal government has made fulfilling election promises.
FREDERICTON -- Jenica Atwin is leaving federal politics for the "time being" in part because of the online hate she receives, saying the level of toxicity she's had to face has been surprising.
FREDERICTON -- Melissa Hawkes began to feel unwell during a visit to a friend's house in March 2021. All that she remembers before blacking out is that she went to the bathroom. When she opened her eyes, she found herself lying on the floor, her friends and fiancee looking on worriedly.
FREDERICTON -- More than a year after the Saint John, N.B., police chief announced a review of his officers' conduct in the case of two men wrongfully convicted of murder, there is no sign of the promised report.
FREDERICTON -- Prince Edward Island Premier Dennis King is hoping cooler heads prevail and trade continues to flow uninterrupted across the United States-Canada border after president-elect Donald Trump takes office next week.
FREDERICTON -- Susan Holt was puzzled when an envelope with an orange U.S. stamp depicting an African daisy arrived in her mail last month. It was postmarked New York.
FREDERICTON -- A New Brunswick court has found that First Nations can seek title to vast areas of privately owned land in the province, but to do so they have to go through the Crown rather than the companies that own it.
FREDERICTON -- A rent cap, tax cuts, and payments to nurses are among the election promises the New Brunswick Liberals say they will fulfil in their first 100 days in office.
FREDERICTON -- New Brunswick's Liberal government is scheduled to give its first throne speech today after winning last month's provincial election.
FREDERICTON -- New Brunswick's new Liberal finance minister is projecting a deficit of $92.1 million for the current fiscal year, a reversal from the $40.9-million surplus budgeted last spring by the previous Progressive Conservative government.
FREDERICTON -- Chief Allan Polchies says he is excited about New Brunswick's new Liberal provincial government.
FREDERICTON -- Susan Holt says it hasn't sunk in yet that she is New Brunswick's premier-designate.
FREDERICTON -- New Brunswick voters have elected a Liberal majority government, tossing out the incumbent Progressive Conservatives after six years in power and handing the reins to the first woman ever to lead the province.
New Brunswick voters have elected a Liberal majority government, tossing out the incumbent Progressive Conservatives after six years in power and handing the reins to the first woman ever to lead the province. Liberal Leader Susan Holt is a relative newcomer to the province's political scene, having won a byelection last year, eight months after she became the first woman...
FREDERICTON -- The Canadian Press is projecting that the New Brunswick Liberal Party has won a majority government in the provincial election.
FREDERICTON -- New Brunswick's Liberals have taken an early lead over the incumbent Progressive Conservatives as the ballots started being counted after an election race notable for the stark contrast between the two campaigns.
FREDERICTON -- New Brunswick voters have cast their ballots after an election race that focused on health care and affordability but was notable for the stark contrast between the Liberal and Progressive Conservative campaigns.
FREDERICTON -- New Brunswick residents are casting their votes in what polls suggest is a tight election centred on two leaders with sharply contrasting visions for the province.
FREDERICTON -- New Brunswick's election campaign has offered voters a sharp division in viewpoints for the future of the province, especially between the two leading candidates for the premier's office.
FREDERICTON -- The past two years have not been easy for New Brunswick Progressive Conservative Leader Blaine Higgs, but he has proven resilient.
FREDERICTON -- New Brunswick's Progressive Conservative leader was targeted by his two main opponents during a roundtable discussion on Wednesday, forced to defend his record on issues such as health care, housing and public safety.
FREDERICTON -- New Brunswick's Progressive Conservative leader was targeted by his two main opponents during Wednesday's roundtable discussion, forced to defend his record on issues such as health care, housing and public safety.
FREDERICTON -- New Brunswick's Progressive Conservative leader has been noticeably more absent on the campaign trail compared to his two main opponents -- and has made significantly fewer election promises.
FREDERICTON -- New Brunswick's Progressive Conservatives have been noticeably less present on the campaign trail compared to the Liberals and Greens.
FREDERICTON -- Warming temperatures, rising sea levels and coastal erosion are threatening communities up and down New Brunswick, but with just over one week to the provincial election, some voters say the topic of climate change hasn't been given enough attention during the campaign.
FREDERICTON -- New Brunswick's Liberal leader is on the defensive for comments she made on a podcast months ago that her opponents charge make northern residents in the Bathurst area seem uneducated.
FREDERICTON -- Improving health care comes through better management, not spending more money, according to New Brunswick's Progressive Conservative leader, who says he'll bring "business acumen" to delivering services if he's re-elected to a third term as premier.
FREDERICTON -- New Brunswick Progressive Conservative Leader Blaine Higgs is promising synagogues, mosques, churches and community organizations more money for security measures, including the installation of surveillance cameras.
FREDERICTON -- A riding in southwest New Brunswick that for decades was a Progressive Conservative stronghold is shaping up to be a bellwether that could offer a window into the future of the Tory party, and maybe of the province.
FREDERICTON -- The leader of New Brunswick's Green Party is promising to pass a law that would guarantee the right to a healthy environment if his party is elected to govern on Oct. 21.
FREDERICTON -- David Coon is in his fourth election campaign as leader of New Brunswick's Green Party, but he says this race feels different.
FREDERICTON -- As they both campaign for re-election, the premiers of British Columbia and New Brunswick appear to agree on one controversial issue: involuntary care for those with severe drug addictions.
MONCTON, N.B. -- New Brunswick's Liberal leader challenged her Progressive Conservative opponent on Wednesday night to explain how his plan to cut hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes will help fund a health system struggling to care for a growing population.
MONCTON, N.B. -- New Brunswick's Liberal leader says the Progressive Conservative promise to cut the harmonized sales tax risks pushing the province toward more privatization of the health system.
Jason Sully would normally spend the first weekend of a provincial election period immersed in campaign logistics -- knocking on doors, organizing volunteers and all the other behind-the-scenes work involved in getting candidates elected.
New Brunswick's Progressive Conservative leader disrespected the province's residents by presenting the death of a Liberal supporter as funny, the party said as it called for Blaine Higgs to apologize. Higgs drew the party's ire during remarks made at his Thursday campaign kickoff event in Quispamsis, N.B., held hours after he dissolved the legislature and officially triggered the campaign leading...