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Confirmed case of Monkeypox in New Brunswick

The provincial government’s Department of Health confirmed the case in a news release Friday evening.

Halifax's Meagher Park, used as encampment by homeless, cleared out and fenced off

Halifax police say a city park that has been used as an encampment for homeless people has been cleared out and fenced off.

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.

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.

‘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.