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FREDERICTON — New Brunswick's Progressive Conservative leader was targeted by his two main opponents during a roundtable discussion on Wednesday, forced to defend his record on issues such as health care, housing and public safety.

HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia government is offering to pay up to $15,000 a year into a new retirement benefits program for doctors in hopes the public money will keep more physicians in the province.

HALIFAX — Candidates running to be Halifax's next mayor are fighting apathy and a lack of public engagement with municipal politics, experts and candidates say.

METEGHAN CENTRE, N.S. — Police in Nova Scotia have charged a man and a woman in the theft of 54 anchors. RCMP say the anchors were stolen overnight on Oct. 9 from a business in Meteghan Centre, about 210 kilometres southwest of Halifax.

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick's Progressive Conservative leader has been noticeably more absent on the campaign trail compared to his two main opponents — and has made significantly fewer election promises. Since the Sept.

HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia government says that in the coming days it will start building a 500-metre-long berm to protect a low-lying land link between the province and New Brunswick.

HALIFAX — International enrolment in Atlantic Canada has fallen by nearly 3,000 students this academic year, a drop one university group says is the “devastating effect” of the federal government’s policies to reduce the presence of temporary immigra

HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia government says it will provide financial support for at least two more years to the private ferry service that links the province with Maine.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Team Gushue is adding Brendan Bottcher at second as a replacement for E.J. Harnden. The St. John's, N.L.-based team made the announcement via a post on social media.

HALIFAX — A ferry company that operates the route between Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island says one of its ships will be out of commission until the end of the season.