Atlantic Canada News

FREDERICTON — Health officials in New Brunswick reported 87 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday and 60 more recoveries from the disease.

CHARLOTTETOWN — Prince Edward Island reported seven new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday. Chief public health officer Dr. Heather Morrison said the new cases included one person in their 60s, four in their 50s, one in their 30s and one in their 20s.

Torrential rain flooded basements and washed out roads and bridges in western Cape Breton and southwestern Newfoundland on Wednesday, as a huge storm spent a third day slowly trudging over Atlantic Canada.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Newfoundland and Labrador health officials say a man in the Central Health region is the 18th person to die from COVID-19 in the province.

MONCTON, N.B. — Officials investigating an outbreak last August of legionnaires' disease in Moncton that killed one person and sent seven to hospital have completed their probe without finding a common source of the infections.

A massive, slow-moving storm that lashed parts of the Maritimes with 100-kilometre-per-hour gusts and driving rain has enveloped southwestern Newfoundland, where residents are being warned that up to 300 millimetres of rain could inundate the area by

CALGARY — After seven years of layoffs and hard times, employers in Alberta's oilpatch are once again flush with cash and out to lure workers from the Maritimes and other parts of Eastern Canada.

FREDERICTON — Health officials across the Atlantic region on Tuesday said the newly arrived COVID-19 vaccines for children would start to be administered by the end of the week, and they offered assurances to parents that the doses were safe and effe

MONCTON, N.B. — Cannabis company Organigram Holdings Inc. reported a smaller loss in its latest quarter compared with a year ago as its net revenue rose 22 per cent. The company says it lost $26 million for the quarter ended Aug.

CHARLOTTETOWN — Health officials in Prince Edward Island are reporting four new cases of COVID-19.