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CHARLOTTETOWN — As a group of foreign workers protesting recent changes to Prince Edward Island's immigration rules resumed their hunger strike on Tuesday, an immigration consultant said the eastern Canadian province should look to Manitoba for a res

FREDERICTON — As Central and Eastern Canada brace for the year's first heat wave, medical experts are warning of the particular health risks faced by people taking medications that can alter the body's response to extreme temperatures. Dr.

OTTAWA — Liberal MP Andy Fillmore says he won’t return to the House of Commons in the fall. Fillmore was first elected as MP for Halifax in the 2015 election that brought Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to power.

RICHIBUCTO, N.B. — A shell-processing plant in Richibucto, N.B., says it is shutting down and laying off 20 staff because the province limited the facility's hours of operation after residents complained of the smell.

FREDERICTON — Environment Canada is forecasting a period of "very hot" and humid weather across most of New Brunswick this week, days ahead of summer's official arrival.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Since the doomed Titan made its descent to view the Titanic wreck one year ago, other unregistered submersibles have been operating within Canadian waters, says the Transportation Safety Board of Canada.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia has installed fewer than 10 per cent of the 200 self-contained, fibreglass shelters it promised to set up for the province's growing number of homeless residents more than eight months after first making the pledge.

HALIFAX — There's growing evidence that the number of great white sharks is on the rise along Canada's East Coast, where plans are in the works to post warning signs for beachgoers for the first time.

RENOUS, N.B. — RCMP in New Brunswick are investigating after a Friday night collision left a 44-year-old man dead.

Police in Nova Scotia are investigating two fatal collisions that took place on Friday and Saturday.