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Vulnerable people in New Brunswick are being told to take precautions as hot and humid weather is expected this week.
Environment Canada says seniors, infants, young children, pregnant people and workers are at greater risk of health risks from the heat.
A heat warning has been issued for most counties starting tomorrow into Thursday, and humidity might make it feel like 40 degrees Celsius.
Hot conditions could persist into Friday.
(The Canadian Press)
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A New Brunswick shell processing plant is suspending operations and laying off five staff.
Coastal Shell Products in Richibucto (rish-a-BUK’-toh) made the announcement in a statement Saturday night.
The company says operational limitations imposed by the provincial government over the last two years have created financial conditions that no longer make it possible for the company to operate.
The company has been the subject of many complaints from nearby residents due to the odour coming from the facility, and the province required it to reduce hours of operation. (CTV News)
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There’s growing evidence that the number of great white sharks is on the rise along Canada’s East Coast.
And now plans are in the works to post warning signs for beachgoers for the first time.
Warning signs and flags have been installed at beaches in Massachusetts and Maine following two fatal shark attacks — one in 2018 at Cape Cod and another in 2020 at Maine’s Casco Bay.
In Nova Scotia, the plan is to install warning signs with Q-R codes at about a dozen public beaches as early as this summer. (The Canadian Press)
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An immersive video game by Prince Edward Island researchers highlights the vulnerability of the province to flooding and coastal erosion.
University of Prince Edward Island professor Adam Fenech (FEN’-ek) created CoastaL Impacts Visualization Environment, or CLIVE.
Fenech says by helping people visualize how storm surges and coastal erosion can transform the land, the video game appeals to people’s sense of vulnerability and can push them to take action to protect the environment.
The game will soon be linked to the provincial government’s website, and next month Fenech is travelling to eight communities on the Island to present the technology. (The Canadian Press)
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Nova Scotia has installed fewer than 10 per cent of the 200 shelters it promised to set up for the province’s homeless residents more than eight months after first making the pledge.
The province’s Community Services Minister says work is underway to open up 96 more of the insulated, fibreglass shelters across three sites, and the government is still trying to nail down locations for the remaining 85 shelters it has purchased.
Brendan Maguire says his department is looking everywhere and anywhere to find suitable locations for the remaining shelters, and could not say when the other 96 will be ready for residents to move in.
There are 19 people living in individual 70-square-foot shelters at a site in the Halifax-area suburb of Lower Sackville, set up alongside separate washrooms and a laundry facility. (The Canadian Press)
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Princess Anne will be in Newfoundland and Labrador next month to mark the 100th anniversary of the unveiling of the National War Memorial in St. John’s.
The July 1st anniversary will be particularly poignant, as the remains of an unidentified First World War soldier from what was then known as the Dominion of Newfoundland, will be entombed on the plateau of the memorial.
More than 12-thousand people from the dominion served in various branches during the First World War; about 17-hundred of them were killed, and more than 800 have no known grave.
The remains of the Unknown Soldier were returned from France last month and they will be laid to rest at a refurbished memorial site representing deceased Newfoundlanders and Labradorians from all branches of service who have no known grave. (The Canadian Press)
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(Atlantic Update by The Canadian Press)
