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FREDERICTON — New Brunswick health officials urged residents to get vaccinated Saturday after 11 new cases of measles were confirmed in the province. The new cases were detected in Fredericton and parts of the upper Saint John River valley area.

HALIFAX — A lot has changed in Nova Scotia since the Progressive Conservatives won a dominant electoral majority in the 2021 election with a targeted focus on health care.

FREDERICTON — When pilots took to the air for combat during the First World War, it had been less than 15 years since the Wright brothers' famous first flight in 1903.

SAINT CATHARINES, Ont. — Alberta's Kurt Balderston defeated Newfoundland and Labrador's Trent Skanes 6-4 on Friday and qualified for the semifinals at the Canadian mixed curling championship.

Voters in Nova Scotia are scheduled to go to the polls on Nov. 26. At dissolution, the Progressive Conservatives held 34 seats in the 55-seat legislature, the Liberals held 14 seats, the NDP had six and there was one Independent.

HALIFAX — A Halifax-area school is walking back its request that service members not attend its Remembrance Day ceremony in uniform, following an outburst of anger including from the Nova Scotia premier, who said the initial ask was “disgraceful and

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's incumbent Progressive Conservatives released their election platform Friday, announcing that if elected to govern Nov. 26, they will impose a cap on electricity rate increases.

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick says a parasite threatening the country's oyster industry may have spread to the province's east coast.

HALIFAX — Halifax police have charged a third adult in the stabbing death of a 16-year-old boy at the Halifax Shopping Centre earlier this year.

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... N.S. votes: Tories to release platform today The Progressive Conservatives are set to release their party platform today ahead of Nova Scotia’s Nov.