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A new collaborative care clinic in southern New Brunswick expects to eliminate a local patient wait-list within 12 to 18 months.
The province says physicians at the clinic in the Hampton area have already starting contacting patients from the N-B Health Link wait-list.
The clinic opened its doors on September 1st and has six doctors, two practical nurses, a registered nurse and other staff who will provide care to more than 39-hundred patients in the area.
The New Brunswick government is providing about 2.2-million-dollars to Horizon Health Network in support of the team.
(The Canadian Press)
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Officials in Summerside say a fire at a solar farm in western P-E-I is out, weeks after it started on Labour Day.
Emergency services in Summerside say the fire started at the Sunbank solar farm where battery cells burned, smouldered and flared up for weeks.
City officials say they will work with the P-E-I fire marshal, technical experts and insurance providers to determine the cause of the fire.
The city’s utility team will begin the process of restarting solar power generation as the farm’s battery infrastructure stays isolated.
(The Canadian Press)
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(NS-Offshore-Port-Investment)
Advocates behind a 13-year-old bid to build a new shipping container port in Cape Breton have shifted their focus to offshore wind development.
A statement from Novaporte today says it drummed up investor interest for the new proposal at last week’s Canada Investment Summit in Toronto.
The plan calls for building an offshore wind manufacturing port on the shores of Sydney harbour and attract anchor manufacturers and suppliers to the area.
Novaporte says the first phase of its proposal for an offshore wind hub could be worth one-billion-dollars-U-S.
(The Canadian Press)
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Provincial homeowner support programs are set to launch in Newfoundland and Labrador next week.
Newfoundland and Labrador Housing Corporation will start accepting applications as of October 1st for two expanded and enhanced programs.
The Home Repair Program aims to help low-income homeowners who need to make vital home repairs while the Home Modification Program helps homeowners make accessibility modifications.
Changes to the programs were announced in May and include doubling the forgivable loan amounts in each.
(The Canadian Press)
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(NL-Excessive-Speeding)
An Ontario man with a suspended licence had his vehicle impounded after being caught speeding in the Newfoundland community of Mary’s Harbour.
R-C-M-P say the 39-year-old was caught driving 140-kilometres per hour in a construction zone where the posted speed was 80-kilometres per hour.
The Mounties say the man was ticketed for excessive speeding and driving with a suspended licence and had his vehicle impounded.
They say the incident happened last Friday on Route 510.
(The Canadian Press)
