Atlantic Canada News

FREDERICTON — The New Brunswick government released a plan to overhaul its health-care system Wednesday with targets of reduced wait times and better use of technology, but no estimate of what the changes will cost.

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick is reporting 82 new cases of COVID-19 today. The province has 565 active reported infections. There are 30 people hospitalized with the disease, including 16 in intensive care.

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CAPE BRETON, N.B. — Emile Hegarty-Aubin scored the game-winner in overtime to lift the Cape Breton Eagles to a 4-3 victory over the Moncton Wildcats in Quebec Major Junior Hockey League action on Tuesday.

OROMOCTO, N.B. — Canadian soldiers who unwittingly ate cannabis-laced cupcakes during a live-fire training exercise in New Brunswick in 2018 say the incident has eroded their trust in other people and they say they feel betrayed.

GRAND FALLS-WINDSOR, N.L. — There is no chance the two hunters who went missing off Newfoundland's northern coast last weekend will be found alive, the Canadian Coast Guard said Tuesday. Search and rescue operations were scheduled to end at 6 p.m.

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick's government is projecting that the fiscal 2021-22 year will end in a $89.1-million surplus instead of the $244.8-million deficit that had been estimated in the last budget.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — A new musical comedy starring Newfoundland's Alan Doyle and set for next year's Charlottetown Festival replaces the sought-after petrochemical factory in the movie "The Grand Seduction" with a humble french-fry factory.

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick's health minister is announcing a new system that would give access to primary care to patients who don't have a family doctor or nurse practitioner.

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick is reporting 40 new cases of COVID-19 today. Health officials are also reporting 49 more recoveries from the disease, which drops the number of active cases to 525.