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• ‘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.

  

• 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.

• 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.

• 'It’s the new reality': N.S. business professor says gig economy is keeping with trends

  With the cost of living on the rise, more Canadians are turning to the gig economy to make ends meet — a move one Nova Scotia business professor says is indicative of a troubling trend.

• Moncton man facing weapon and drug charges after police checkstop

  A police checkstop in Moncton has resulted in a 35-year-old man being charged with weapon and drug offences.

• P.E.I. Old Home week returns after two years hobbled by pandemic

  Shuttered in 2020 and with only limited events in 2021, P.E.I. Old Home Week has returned in full force for the first time since the pandemic began.

• Two people hospitalized after motorcyclist strikes pedestrian in Moncton

  Two people are in hospital after a motorcycle struck a pedestrian in Moncton, N.B., Thursday night.

• P.E.I. RCMP investigating arson of abandoned home in Rosebank

  A fire at an abandoned house in Rosebank, P.E.I., was deliberately set, according to the province’s Fire Marshals Office.