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FREDERICTON — As they both campaign for re-election, the premiers of British Columbia and New Brunswick appear to agree on one controversial issue: involuntary care for those with severe drug addictions. Earlier this month, B.C.

MONCTON, N.B.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — An unusual advertising deal paid off for Newfoundland and Labrador as a small northern England soccer club wearing the province's name on their jerseys faced off Tuesday against one of the best-known teams on the planet.

HALIFAX — Ottawa has finalized a $500-million bailout to help Nova Scotia Power keep rates from skyrocketing due to delivery delays of Muskrat Falls electricity.

HALIFAX — The working group examining support for Nova Scotia’s wine industry has lost its co-chair, who resigned this week calling talks with the provincial government an “enormous disappointment.

HALIFAX — Chorus Aviation Inc. says its shareholders have voted to approve the sale of the company's regional aircraft leasing business to HPS Investment Partners. The Halifax-based company says the $1.9-billion deal was greenlighted by 98.

WENTWORTH, N.S. — A 17-turbine wind farm in central Nova Scotia is receiving a $118-million low-interest loan from a federal Crown corporation.

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HALIFAX — Nova Scotia economist Lars Osberg's latest book on the widening gap between the very richest and the rest argues the trend is creating disappointed Canadians prone to distrusting one another and their governments.

HALIFAX — A candidate for Halifax mayor says the municipality's approach to homeless encampments has encouraged unhoused people from across the country to move to the city to live in tents — a claim housing advocates and city councillors say is untru