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Ottawa claws back health funding for private delivery of abortion services in New Brunswick
Clinic 554; Reproductive Justice NB story; ex-Mogentaler Clinic; Fredericton; abortion rights group
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RCMP online exploitation probe leads to arrests of three in New Brunswick
The RCMP logo is seen outside Royal Canadian Mounted Police "E" Division Headquarters, in Surrey, B.C., on Friday April 13, 2018. Two men and a woman from West Africa are facing charges related to online exploitation after police in New Brunswick executed search warrants last week in Moncton and Dieppe. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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Conditions for migrant workers in New Brunswick seafood industry abusive, dangerous: report
Carla Qualtrough, minister of employment, workforce development and disability inclusion, speaks during the second reading of the Canada Disability Benefit Act in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill on Tuesday, September 20, 2022 in Ottawa. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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New Brunswick halts controversial overhaul of French immersion in province’s schools
New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs delivers the State of the Province address in Fredericton, N.B. on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023. New Brunswick says it will not move ahead with its controversial French-language education reform following widespread public criticism of the plan to reduce French teaching in schools. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Stephen MacGillivray
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New Brunswick’s changes to French-language learning causes concern among parents and educators
New Brunswick Education Minister Bill Hogan listens to people at the Delta Fredericton on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023, during a public consultation for the government's proposed French immersion program scheduled to be introduced this fall. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Hina Alam
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Premier declares ‘New Brunswick is back’ as province faces several challenges
New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs responds to a question from the media at the Fairmont Empress in Victoria, B.C., on Tuesday, July 12, 2022. The premier touted his government's achievements claiming growth in health care, education, energy development, and the economy at the province's State of the Union. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito
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Parent group welcomes New Brunswick premier statement that French immersion reform uncertain
The New Brunswick premier says a proposed French immersion education model that was widely criticized was "never a sure thing," a statement welcomed by a parent group. A classroom is shown in Scarborough, Ont., on Monday, Sept. 14, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
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American agents arrest 13 from Mexico and Vietnam trying to enter U.S. from New Brunswick
New Brunswick's provincial flag flies on a flag pole in Ottawa, Monday, July 6, 2020. American officials say Border Patrol agents in Maine recently accused 13 foreign nationals — seven adults from Mexico and six from Vietnam — of illegally entering the United States from two locations in western New Brunswick. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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New Brunswick man who killed three Mounties in 2014 files appeal of stiff sentence
Justin Bourque is depicted in an artist's sketch at his sentencing hearing at Moncton Law Courts in Moncton, N.B. on Tuesday, October 28, 2014. Bourque, who fatally shot three Mounties in 2014, has applied to the province's highest court to have his precedent-setting 75-year parole ineligibility period reduced to 25 years. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Carol Taylor
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Man charged with second-degree murder in death of New Brunswick journalist
The RCMP logo is seen outside Royal Canadian Mounted Police "E" Division Headquarters, in Surrey, B.C., on April 13, 2018. Police in New Brunswick say a 29-year-old man has been charged with second degree murder following the death of a journalist well known to listeners of French-language radio in the province. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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New Brunswick includes ‘good conduct’ clause in funding deal with Hockey Canada
A Hockey Canada logo is seen on the door to a meeting room at the organizations head office in Calgary, Alta., Sunday, Nov. 6, 2022. Hockey Canada’s provincial and territorial members will vote today on whether to approve a slate of nominees to fill the organization's nine vacancies on its board of directors.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
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Politics Briefing: Acadian group calls for leadership review of N.B. Premier Higgs over his bilingualism policies
New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs responds to a question from the media on the final day of the summer meeting of Canada's premiers at the Fairmont Empress in Victoria, B.C., on Tuesday, July 12, 2022.The New Brunswick government says it will give $12 million toward the construction of a building to house a health and social innovation centre at University of New Brunswick’s Saint John campus. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito
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Outraged Acadian group urges leadership review of New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs
New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs responds to a question from the media on the final day of the summer meeting of Canada's premiers at the Fairmont Empress in Victoria, B.C., on Tuesday, July 12, 2022.The New Brunswick government says it will give $12 million toward the construction of a building to house a health and social innovation centre at University of New Brunswick’s Saint John campus. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito
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New Brunswick law allows supported decision-making for intellectually disabled residents
In a screengrab from a recorded zoom interview Dianne Cormier Northrup (centre) with her son Robert Chamberlain and daughter Lynn Chamberlain talk with The Canadian Press about the province's new Supported Decision-Making and Representation Act. The new bill allows the children to appoint their mother and others to be people who support them when they are communicating important financial, health and personal decisions. The zoom screen grab was taken at the brother and sister's home in Bathurst, N.B. THE CANADIAN PRESS/CP
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New Brunswick releases report on systemic racism despite criticism from Indigenous leadership
New Brunswick's provincial flag flies in Ottawa, Monday, July 6, 2020. New Brunswick's government has proposed a French immersion program for the next academic year with the goal of ensuring all students graduate with at least conversational level of the language. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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New Brunswick introduces changes to French immersion program
New Brunswick Education and Early Childhood Development Minister Bill Hogan addresses a news conference in Fredericton, Thursday, Dec.15, 2022. New Brunswick's government has proposed a French immersion framework for the next academic year with the goal of ensuring all students graduate with a conversational level of the language. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Hina Alam
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New Brunswick to open Secretariat of Official Languages to oversee province’s language act
New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs responds to a question from the media on the final day of the summer meeting of Canada's Premiers at the Fairmont Empress in Victoria, B.C., on Tuesday, July 12, 2022. New Brunswick's Court of Appeal has ruled that Premier Blaine Higgs's August 2020 snap election call that won him a majority government was legal.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito
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What you can learn from celebrity chef Matty Matheson
The chef Matty Matheson, who plays a handyman on 'The Bear,' at home in Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada, Aug. 24, 2022. (Brandon Watson/The New York Times)
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New Brunswick’s budget surplus balloons $739-million more than spring estimate
New Brunswick Finance Minister Ernie Steeves delivers the provincial budget in the legislature in Fredericton, New Brunswick on Tuesday, March 19, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Stephen MacGillivray
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Boy who went missing two months ago in Florida found safe in New Brunswick: RCMP
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Interfor signs deal to buy Chaleur Forest Products in New Brunswick for $325-million
Logs are seen in an aerial view stacked at the Interfor sawmill, in Grand Forks, B.C., on May 12, 2018. International Trade Minister Mary Ng says Canada is formally initiating a challenge of "unwarranted and unfair" U.S. duties on Canadian softwood lumber. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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Monday’s small-cap stocks to watch
A screen displays a chart that tracks the Dow Jones Industrial Average, after the closing bell on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on May 4.
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New Brunswick sexual assault nurse says premier’s comments are a ‘slap in the face’
New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs responds to a question from the media on the final day of the summer meeting of Canada's Premiers at the Fairmont Empress in Victoria, B.C., on Tuesday, July 12, 2022. A Fredericton sexual assault nurse examiner says the premier's comments about the case of a rape victim turned away when requesting a forensic exam equates to a “slap in the face” to nurses.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito
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New Brunswick graduate nurses can now become fully licensed through Quebec exam
New Brunswick's provincial flag flies on a flagpole in Ottawa, Monday, July 6, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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Weekend services at two N.B. hospitals reduced because of ‘critical’ nurses shortage
The Moncton Hospital is shown in Moncton, New Brunswick on Friday January 14, 2022. A health authority in New Brunswick is asking people with non-life-threatening medical needs to stay away from its hospitals this weekend following a "critical" shortage of nurses.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ron Ward
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New Brunswick group to proceed with plan to eradicate invasive fish from Miramichi watershed
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New Brunswick offering Ukrainian refugees easy access to driver’s licences
Ukrainian refugees board a plane before flying to Canada, from Frederic Chopin Airport in Warsaw, Poland, Monday, July 4, 2022. Phan Thị Kim Phuc, the girl in the famous 1972 Vietnam napalm attack photo, on Monday escorted 236 refugees from the war in Ukraine on a flight from Warsaw to Canada. Phuc’s iconic Associated Press photo in which she runs with her napalm-scalded body exposed, was etched on the private NGO plane that is flying the refugees to the city of Regina. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)
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Heat warnings remain in effect throughout Eastern Canada heading into weekend
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New Brunswick lowers minimum age for second COVID-19 booster to 18 amid Omicron variant concerns
People leave a mass vaccination and testing clinic at the Moncton Coliseum, in Moncton, N.B., on Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2021. Health officials in New Brunswick are reporting four COVID-19-related deaths last week and are lowering the age of eligibility for the second COVID-19 booster shot to 18. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christopher Katsarov
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New Brunswick cabinet minister blasts Air Canada for cancellation
New Brunswick Education Minister Dominic Cardy releases the province’s back to school plan on Friday Aug 20 in Fredericton. New Brunswick's education minister is lashing out at Air Canada, saying the airline is incompetent because it decided on the weekend to cancel a Monday flight that would have taken him and four other officials to a meeting in Regina.THE CANDIAN PRESS/Kevin Bissett
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Six First Nations chiefs call for end to New Brunswick commission on systemic racism
New Brunswick's provincial flag flies on a flag pole in Ottawa, Monday July 6, 2020. An interim report by New Brunswick's commissioner on systemic racism calls on the provincial government to launch a public inquiry into systemic racism against Indigenous peoples in the justice system "without delay." THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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Senior adviser to N.B. commissioner on systemic racism resigns, questions independence of office
New Brunswick's provincial flag flies on a flag pole in Ottawa, Monday July 6, 2020. An interim report by New Brunswick's commissioner on systemic racism calls on the provincial government to launch a public inquiry into systemic racism against Indigenous peoples in the justice system "without delay." THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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New Brunswick racism commissioner calls for public inquiry into Indigenous treatment in the justice system
New Brunswick's provincial flag flies on a flag pole in Ottawa, Monday July 6, 2020. An interim report by New Brunswick's commissioner on systemic racism calls on the provincial government to launch a public inquiry into systemic racism against Indigenous peoples in the justice system "without delay." THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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Voters in northern New Brunswick elect Progressive Conservatives in two byelections
New Brunswick's provincial flag flies in Ottawa, Monday, July 6, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld