(NB-Double-Fatal)
R-C-M-P in southeastern New Brunswick say two people are dead after a head-on vehicle crash.
Mounties say a car was carrying five people from Moncton on Monday when it crossed the centre of the road and crashed into an S-U-V with five people from Arkansas.
A 16-year-old girl and an 18-year-old man in the car were both pronounced dead at the scene, while a 16-year-old boy was in critical condition.
Others were taken to hospital with more minor injuries.
Police arrested the 25-year-old driver of the car, but charges have not been laid. (The Canadian Press)
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(PSPP-Churchill-Falls)
Quebec’s premier-designate says his party will do its due diligence to ensure an energy agreement with Newfoundland and Labrador serves his province.
Paul St-Pierre Plamondon says there should be no problem with the agreement based on what officials have said about it so far.
He says negotiators still need to work out all of the binding details.
Plamondon was initially against an earlier draft of the agreement to share energy from Labrador.
His Parti Québécois secured a minority government in Monday’s provincial election. (The Canadian Press)
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(NB-Data-Centre)
New Brunswick’s Green party says the provincial government needs to reveal how many A-I data centres are being proposed in the province.
Green legislator Megan Mitton says the Liberals must live up to their commitment to be the most transparent government the province has ever had.
Mitton, one of two Greens in the legislature, says the government must also tell New Brunswickers where the data centres could go.
She adds the government’s proposed data centre policy is weak and doesn’t do enough to protect residents from potential harms. (The Canadian Press)
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(NS-Credit-Unions)
Members of four Nova Scotian credit unions have approved plans to merge.
The Acadian, i-Nova and Teachers Plus credit unions will soon merge with the East Coast Credit Union.
The change takes effect January 1st and they will all operate under the East Coast Credit Union banner.
The merged credit union will have 65-thousand members across 24 locations and manage about two-billion dollars in assets. (The Canadian Press)
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(NS-Tick-Bites)
E-R visits for tick bites are down in Nova Scotia, with pharmacists providing preventive treatments for early signs of Lyme disease.
Dalhousie University researchers say the rate of E-R visits for tick bites at three Nova Scotia hospitals were cut by 50 per cent after 2021.
That’s the year pharmacists began prescribing preventive treatment.
Nova Scotia has the highest incidence of Lyme disease in Canada. (The Canadian Press)
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(PEI-LTC-Beds)
The P-E-I government says it’s planning to add 82 more long-term care beds in Charlottetown.
The province plans to spend 3.5-million dollars a year over a 30-year agreement to construct beds at the Whisperwood nursing home.
Operational costs will be another 10.1-million dollars a year.
The province says it has 222 new long-term care beds under development in Charlottetown, Cornwall and Summerside. (The Canadian Press)
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(Atlantic Update by The Canadian Press)
