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HALIFAX — A new program to more quickly integrate internationally trained doctors into Nova Scotia’s health system is set to begin in the new year.

FREDERICTON — Improving health care comes through better management, not spending more money, according to New Brunswick's Progressive Conservative leader, who says he'll bring "business acumen" to delivering services if he's re-elected to a third te

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick Progressive Conservative Leader Blaine Higgs is promising synagogues, mosques, churches and community organizations more money for security measures, including the installation of surveillance cameras.

As millions in federal funding flow into a Labrador group whose claims of Inuit identity have been rejected by Indigenous organizations across Canada, a national Inuit leader worries the Liberal government is putting the rights of Indigenous Peoples

HALIFAX — Mathieu Cataford's goal at 16:18 of the third period snapped a 3-3 deadlock and lifted the visiting Rimouski Oceanic to a 4-3 win over the Halifax Mooseheads in Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League action on Sunday.

CHARLOTTETOWN — Kerri Einarson took down Rachel Homan 5-4 in an all-Canadian women's final at the HearingLife Tour Challenge curling tournament on Sunday. Ottawa's Homan held a 3-1 lead after four ends before Einarson of Gimli, Man.

FREDERICTON — A riding in southwest New Brunswick that for decades was a Progressive Conservative stronghold is shaping up to be a bellwether that could offer a window into the future of the Tory party, and maybe of the province.

CHARLOTTETOWN — Canada's Rachel Homan and Kerri Einarson advanced to the women's quarterfinals at the HearingLife Tour Challenge with wins on Friday, while Mike McEwen moved on to the men's final eight.

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick's Liberal party is promising to open a community health clinic in Woodstock, N.B., if the party wins the Oct. 21 election.

HALIFAX — The federal Fisheries Department says it is concerned about a "pattern" of violence and threats toward its enforcement officers after two tense incidents off southwestern Nova Scotia last month.