(NB-Curling-Win)
New Brunswick has won the 2025 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship.
Over the weekend, Fredericton’s Team Comeau won gold at the tournament, hosted in Assiniboia, Saskatchewan.
The New Brunswick team took the win six to five over Ontario’s Team Mooibroek.
This is New Brunswick’s third win at the Canadian Mixed Curling Championship, with the last win in 2007.
(The Canadian Press)
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(NS-Poppies-Court)
Two chief judges in Nova Scotia support individual judges who choose to ban wearing poppies in the courtroom.
Deborah Smith, chief justice of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, and Perry Borden, chief judge of the Provincial Court, say in a statement that the goal of a judge is to ensure the courtroom is a neutral and impartial place.
The judges say that wearing poppies in a courtroom could make people standing trial doubt the neutrality of the court.
Last week, Premier Tim Houston posted on social media that he was shocked to find out court employees needed permission from the presiding judge to wear a poppy in court.
Houston called it disgusting and wrong, and said he would look at legislation enshrining the right to wear a poppy at work.
(The Canadian Press)
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(PEI-Ferry-Cancel)
Ferry crossings between Nova Scotia and P-E-I are cancelled today.
Northumberland Ferries says that due to high winds forcasted in the Northumberland Strait, all sailings between Caribou, Nova Scotia, and Wood Island, P-E-I, have been cancelled.
The company says it is monitoring weather conditions and will provide updates when it can.
(The Canadian Press)
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(NS-Universities-Strike)
Striking workers at two Halifax universities condemn the requests for binding arbitration.
Part-time faculty at both Mount Saint Vincent University and Saint Mary’s University say in a release that they received “seemingly coordinated” requests from both employers late Friday afternoon.
Union president Lauren McKenzie says the union has communicated the willingness to return to the bargaining table, but the timing of the requests from the schools makes it appear as if the employers are communicating with each other, but not the union.
Part-time faculty at Mount Saint Vincent have been on strike since October 22nd, and faculty at Saint Mary’s have been striking since October 23rd.
(The Canadian Press)
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(NL-ATV-Arrest)
Police in Newfoundland have charged an A-T-V driver who drove on the highway.
On Saturday, officers observed an A-T-V on the Conception Bay South Highway.
When they attempted to pull over the A-T-V, police say the driver tried to outrun the officers, but was later stopped and charged with operating a vehicle with no insurance, and operating an A-T-V with no plate.
Police impounded the A-T-V.
(The Canadian Press)
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(PEI-Building-Fire)
Police are investigating a fire at an abandoned building in P-E-I.
First responders arrived at the building in Miscouche early Sunday to find it engulfed in flames.
Jason Woodbury, chief of the Miscouche Fire Department, says the building was a complete loss.
R-C-M-P are now investigating and say it’s too early to know if the cause of the fire is suspicious.
(CBC News)
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(Atlantic Update by The Canadian Press)
