(Atl-Cabinet-Ministers)
The new federal cabinet includes a number of Atlantic Canadians, including a mix of cabinet veterans and some newcomers.
Joanne Thompson from Newfoundland and Labrador is holding her job as fisheries minister after being appointed earlier this year by Prime Minister Mark Carney.
Nova Scotia M-P Sean Fraser is named as attorney general, New Brunswick’s Dominic LeBlanc becomes minister responsible for Canada-U.S. trade and intergovernmental affairs and P-E-I’s Heath MacDonald – a former provincial finance minister — is named as agriculture minister.
Halifax M-P Lena Metlege Diab will be the minister of immigration, refugees and citizenship.
(The Canadian Press)
—
(NB-Provincial-Parks)
The New Brunswick government says it will be placing a 25 per cent discount on all daily and seasonal entry passes for provincial parks.
Tourism, Heritage and Culture Minister Isabelle Thériault says the province is looking to get people outdoors to enjoy the beauty of the province.
The discount will be applied to all seven provincial parks that have an entry fee and can be applied alongside any existing discounts and programs.
The department says there were 1.1 million visitors to parks throughout the 2024-25 fiscal year.
(The Canadian Press)
—
(NS-Missing-Children)
R-C-M-P in Nova Scotia say they’re planning to interview those closest to two missing children as they investigate the siblings’ disappearance.
Six-year-old Lilly Sullivan and four-year-old Jack Sullivan were reported missing on May 2nd from their home in Landsdowne Station, located about 20 kilometres southwest of New Glasgow.
The Mounties scaled back a ground search last week, saying it was unlikely the children were still alive if they had wandered into the densely wooded area surrounding their home.
Staff Sergeant Curtis MacKinnon says Pictou County district R-C-M-P have received more than 180 tips from the public, and officers have identified 35 people to formally interview, including community members and those closest to the children.
(The Canadian Press)
—
(NB-Seafood-Expos)
The New Brunswick government says it recently took part in two seafood trade shows.
Fisheries Minister Pat Finnigan says government officials travelled to shows in Toronto and Barcelona.
The government says delegates included representatives from the agri-food, aquaculture and seafood sectors.
(The Canadian Press)
—
(NS-Seafood-Licences)
Nova Scotia is lifting two long-standing moratoriums on new buyer and processor licences as it looks to grow its multi-billion dollar seafood sector.
Fisheries Minister Kent Smith says the province is ending the moratorium on groundfish that was imposed in 1994, and a moratorium from 2018 on licences for all other seafood.
Smith says the province will begin accepting applications for buyer and processor licences for most species on August 1st, and for buyer licences for lobster and buyer and processor licences for snow crab starting January 2nd.
Kris Vascotto, executive director of the Nova Scotia Seafood Alliance, says the industry is “cautiously optimistic” about the move, adding that there are still many details to sort out as it deals with a 25 per cent tariff applied by China in March.
(The Canadian Press)
—
(NL-Food-Insecurity)
A non-profit in Newfoundland and Labrador is calling on the province to revisit its poverty reduction strategy.
Food First N-L says rising rates of food insecurity in the province are not surprising, but they are also not inevitable.
The group says Statistics Canada shows nearly a third of Newfoundlanders and Labradorians lived in food insecure households in 2024.
Forty per cent of children lived in food insecure households in 2024, as did nearly 60 per cent of single parents.
(The Canadian Press)
—
(NB-Drug-Investigation)
Police in southern New Brunswick say a two-month drug trafficking investigation has led to the arrest of two people in Saint John.
The Saint John Police Force says officers seized 22 grams of cocaine, 11 rifles and a crossbow.
The two accused face a raft of charges including possession for the purpose of trafficking cocaine, three counts of unsafe storage of firearms and three counts of unauthorized possession of a firearm.
No other details were provided about the two accused.
—
