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Ice storm in Maritimes causes outages and school closures
A man attempts to remove a fallen tree branch as it blocks a sidewalk following an accumulation of freezing rain in Montreal, Wednesday, April 5, 2023. A huge ice storm that knocked out power for hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses in Ontario and Quebec descended on the Maritimes overnight, knocking out power in some areas and forcing school closures and delays across the region. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes
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Powerful winter storm wallops the Maritimes, causing road closures, power outages
A man pulls a child on a sled across a street through blowing snow during a winter storm in Halifax on Saturday, January 29, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Kelly Clark
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Maritime provinces brace for fall storm with torrential rain and strong winds
Waves roll in past Devils Island in Eastern Passage, N.S., on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020. The East Coast is bracing for a fall storm that's expected to wallop the region early next week with torrential rains and severe winds. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
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Power largely restored after tropical storm Elsa brings heavy rain, outages to the Maritimes
The Nova Scotia Power headquarters is seen in Halifax.
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The third wave of COVID-19 has flipped the health care script in Canada
André Picard
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How an East Coast, all-Black baseball team brought pride to their neighbourhoods
dated circa 1922, South End Royals baseball team, John 'Hun' Gray formed the team in 1919. In 1922 won the Intermediate Championship of Saint John. Submitted by : Heritage Resources, Saint John
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COVID-19 prompts a spike in Nova Scotia home prices
Three boys walk through the Hydrostone, in Halifax on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2008. The 10-block neighbourhood was built after a massive blast, caused by a collision between a Belgian relief ship and a French munitions vessel, killed almost 2,000 people, injured 9,000 and destroyed 1,600 buildings, most of them in the city's north end. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
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Punishing winter storm hits most of Atlantic Canada with heavy snow and high winds
A man shovels his driveway during a snowstorm in Charlottetown, on Feb. 8, 2021.
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Messy winter storm lashes Atlantic Canada with strong winds, snow and ice pellets
A pedestrian braves the elements in downtown Halifax, on Feb. 2, 2021.
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Series of warnings issued for Atlantic Canada as storm expected to bring ugly mix of winter weather
Environment Canada has issued a series of weather warnings for the Atlantic region, as a winter storm is expected to deliver an ugly mix of snow, rain, ice pellets and strong winds on Tuesday and Wednesday.
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Maritime Bus gets $720,000 subsidy to continue operating routes in northern New Brunswick
New Brunswick's provincial flag flies in Ottawa, Monday July 6, 2020. A private bus operator is getting $720,000 in government financial support so it can continue to operate routes in northern New Brunswick.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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N.B. reports 12 new COVID-19 cases as Atlantic bubble collapses
Georges L Dumont public hospital in Moncton, N.B. is shown on Thursday Oct. 8, 2020. Public Health in New Brunswick is reporting 17 new cases of COVID-19 at a special-care home in Moncton. The new cases reported yesterday brings the total number of cases at Notre-Dame Manor to 19. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Marc Grandmaison
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‘Not a quick fix to this’: Lobster fishery mediator concedes that he’s facing his toughest challenge yet
Indigenous fishermen head from the harbour in Saulnierville, N.S. on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS /Andrew Vaughan
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‘We’re being targeted now’: Mi’kmaq chief wants military called in to N.S. lobster clashes, attacks
David Kendrick walks around the remnants of a destroyed building which is part of a lobster pound in Middle West Pubnico, Nova Scotia October 18, 2020. John Morris/The Globe And Mail
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Weather warnings issued as Hurricane Teddy on track to hit Atlantic Canada
This GOES-16 GeoColor satellite image taken on Sept. 18, 2020, at 12:20 p.m. EDT., and provided by NOAA, shows Hurricane Teddy, center, in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Dozens displaced by apartment fires in New Brunswick and P.E.I., Red Cross says
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Forecast models show Hurricane Teddy could make landfall in the Maritimes next week
This satellite image provided by the NOAA shows five tropical cyclones churning in the Atlantic basin on Sept. 14, 2020. The storms, from left, are Hurricane Sally over the Gulf of Mexico, Hurricane Paulette over Bermuda, the remnants of Tropical Storm Rene, and Tropical Storms Teddy and Vicky.
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Gone but still revered, Alex Colville created paintings of contemplation and reflection
Jeffrey Meyers
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New Brunswick premier still considering election call
New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs speaks with the media in Fredericton on Monday February 17, 2020. Higgs isn't dismissing rumours of a provincial election call, but says it won't come this week. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Stephen MacGillivray
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New Brunswick reports four new COVID-19 cases linked to temporary foreign workers
A security guard takes the temperature of a passenger arriving at Montreal-Trudeau International Airport in Montreal, on Friday, July 31, 2020. New Brunswick is reporting four new cases of COVID-19 today. Premier Blaine Higgs told reporters the cases involve temporary foreign workers who arrived from Mexico. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson
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Nova Scotia reports two new cases of COVID-19, both travel-related
Nova Scotia's provincial flag flies on a flag pole in Ottawa, Friday July 3, 2020. Nova Scotia is easing some visitor restrictions in long-term care homes, but is making masks mandatory on public transportation. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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Nova Scotia premier won’t commit to ‘Atlantic bubble’ of non-restricted travel
Compliance officers check vehicles at the Nova Scotia-New Brunswick border near Amherst, N.S. on Sunday, April 5, 2020. Provincial staff stop and question anyone entering the province as part of the effort to stop the spread of COVID-19. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
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New details about N.S. mass shooting revealed in court documents
A couple pays their respects at a roadblock in Portapique, N.S. on Wednesday, April 22, 2020. An exhausted population in Nova Scotia is facing mental health challenges that the province's largest health authority is assembling special teams to help address. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
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Maritimes lobster season opens but processors worried about shortage of workers
A fishing boat, loaded with traps, heads from port in West Dover, N.S., in a Nov. 26, 2019, file photo.
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Portapique, N.S., residents prepare to return home and confront a massacre
Cyndi Starratt, a neighbour to many of the victims from the shooting in Portapique, N.S., stands on the porch of her daughter's apartment in Truro, N.S. on Tuesday, April 28, 2020 where she is staying while investigators continue to work at the site where a gunman began his rampage through rural Nova Scotia. Darren Calabrese/The Globe and Mail
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Canada’s experiment in easing back: PEI sets the date to start opening up
Campbell Clark
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In the Maritimes’ rising tide of population growth, rural communities flounder as cities float
Brightly pained historic homes in Shelburne, N.S., an old Loyalist town of 1,700 people.
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The U.S.-China trade war is a boon for Atlantic Canada’s lobster harvesters. But what’s the catch?
On a lobster-fishing boat in the Bay of Fundy, first mate Shawn McGrath holds up a specimen believed to weigh more than 20 pounds.
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In search for food, great white sharks are swimming more to Canadian waters
FILE PHOTO: A great white shark has been detected near Halifax – the second great white spotted in Nova Scotia in a month – prompting at least some people to stay out of the water.