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• Some students at Maritime universities will need to mask up in class and labs

  Halifax's Dalhousie University is the latest post-secondary institution to announce they will require masks to be worn in all indoor classrooms and instructional spaces when students return in September.

  

• Ukrainian doctor fighting to work in Nova Scotia

  The Ukrainian-trained general practitioner and gynaecologist had a meeting Friday morning with operators of a program to integrate foreign educated health professionals, and now he finally has the ball rolling.

  

• Moncton house fire sends one person to hospital

  There’s no official word on the cause of the fire, but the Acting Chief for Moncton Fire, Captain Scott Brown, described the incident to CTV Atlantic as a “small kitchen fire.”

• ‘Colleagues are having panic attacks’: Fredericton ER physician outlines ideas to help ailing healthcare system

  An emergency department physician at the Dr. Everett Chalmers Hospital in Fredericton has spent the last several weeks and months gathering input and ideas from his colleagues, the general public, and his own experiences, on how to help alleviate the stress on New Brunswick’s healthcare system.

• Cape Breton woman told to wait more than three years for surgery

  “I've been waiting for surgery now for the last two years, and I’m told it will be another 18 months. It's not acceptable that I have to be waiting that long,” said Brenda Walsh, who has a prolapsed bladder and has been living in pain for quite a while.

• Civil rights pioneer Viola Desmond commemorated at site of her 1946 arrest in N.S.

  A plaque commemorating Viola Desmond was revealed Friday by the federal agency at the former Roseland Theatre in New Glasgow, N.S., where she was forcibly arrested while watching a movie on Nov. 8, 1946.

• Eisner Cove Wetland activists call for halt to housing project; developer undeterred

  Ignoring “no trespassing” signs, security guards and a Halifax Regional Police officer, environmental activist Lil Macpherson was among a handful of protestors who took the campaign to stop construction near Eisner Cove Wetland straight to the source.

• State of emergency to lift in Newfoundland as forest fire situation improves

  Newfoundland and Labrador officials say the state of emergency called last weekend because of raging wildfires in the centre of the province will end on Saturday.

• Privatizing health care results in worse access for less fortunate: CMA president

  Privatizing parts of the Canadian health-care system could result in some people getting better care than others, according to the president of the Canadian Medical Association.

• Two-tiered medical system is inevitable in Canada: Nova Scotia doctor

  Retired physician David Kogon says, with private health-care clinics already making their way into Nova Scotia and other provinces like Quebec, a two-tiered system is likely the solution to the current health-care crisis.

• Flatbed truck, trailer and track loader stolen in N.B. theft

  Police in Village-Saint-Laurent, N.B., are turning to the public for help locating a stolen flatbed truck, a trailer and a track loader.

• N.B. RCMP investigating tree-cutting that led to power outage in Moncton

  The New Brunswick RCMP is investigating after a tree was cut down, leading to a significant power outage in the province this week.