Schools close, warming centres open as the Maritimes prepare for blast of cold weather
With frigid temperatures on the way, Environment Canada has issued extreme cold warnings for all three Maritime provinces ahead of the weekend.

With frigid temperatures on the way, Environment Canada has issued extreme cold warnings for all three Maritime provinces ahead of the weekend.
Extreme cold warnings are in effect in all three Maritime provinces, cautioning that the coldest air of the season is about to arrive in the region.
Minimum-wage workers in Nova Scotia will be earning $15 an hour in October -- six months sooner than expected.
Police in Moncton, N.B., are investigating an assault after a youth soccer game last weekend.
The Saint John Police Street Crime Integrated Enforcement Unit, along with Canada Post postal inspectors, intercepted and seized 34 grams of what is believed to be fentanyl.
The lawyer for a former Liberal member of the Nova Scotia legislature says his client intends to plead guilty to a charge of impaired driving.
A 33-year-old man who was wanted on a Canada-wide warrant has been arrested in Fredericton.
The chief executive officer of Health PEI says while Canada has one of the most expensive health-care systems, it also has some of the worst outcomes, longest wait lists and the fewest number of hospital beds.
New Brunswick's Opposition is calling on the government to scrap the proposed French-language reform scheduled for schools in the fall.
Canada announced that it had called China's ambassador onto the carpet as Ottawa and Washington expressed their disapproval Friday over a high-altitude balloon found to have been hovering over sensitive sites in the United States.
The federal Liberals are withdrawing an amendment to their guns bill that introduced a controversial new definition of an assault-style weapon. The amendment would have defined what kind of firearms should be banned in Canada and added dozens of new semi-automatic rifles and shotguns to the list.
Medicago Inc., the Quebec-based drug manufacturer of a Canadian COVID-19 vaccine and other plant-based drugs, is being shut down by parent company Mitsubishi Chemical Group.
China said Friday that a balloon spotted over American airspace was used for weather research and was blown off course, despite U.S. suspicion it was spying. The discovery further strained already tense relations between Beijing and Washington.
A federal government department has fired 49 employees who received the Canada Emergency Response Benefit while they were employed.
According to professor at the University of Toronto who specializes in biological hazards and microfungi it may not just be the stuff of science fiction.