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FREDERICTON — New Brunswick Progressive Conservative Leader Blaine Higgs is accusing the Liberals of plagiarizing portions of his party's election platform.

HALIFAX — In what's become a September pattern in Nova Scotia politics, the province's finance minister is again projecting a bigger deficit than estimated in the spring budget.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be travelling to France next Thursday to attend the Francophonie summit. The meeting of French-speaking countries, which happens every two years, will be held on Oct. 4 and 5 in Villers-Cotterêts and Paris.

CHARLOTTETOWN — Public health officials in P.E.I. say more than 550 people have experienced symptoms of gastrointestinal illness after an outbreak of norovirus was detected at a shellfish festival last weekend.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Suncor Energy has been fined $90,000 after pleading guilty to two charges stemming from a worker injury in 2019 aboard its production vessel in an oilfield off the coast of Newfoundland.

HALIFAX — An offer of additional financial aid to Nova Scotia’s wine industry is still on the table despite being rejected by grape growers earlier this week, say provincial officials.

PICTOU, N.S. — The mayor of a Nova Scotia town says recent disruptions to the ferry service that links the province with eastern Prince Edward Island are posing a real challenge for the town's tourism industry.

HALIFAX — Halifax police have arrested a third person in a homicide case involving a 16-year-old who went missing two years ago. Sixteen-year-old Devon Sinclair Marsman was last seen alive on Feb.

The Nova Scotia government is dedicating almost $22 million for a suite of sustainable development and energy efficiency programs. In its announcement, the province says the funding is to support the net-zero construction sector.

FREDERICTON — The leader of New Brunswick's Progressive Conservatives is promising to make financial literacy part of the school curriculum if his party wins the Oct.