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The New Brunswick Liberals are promising to impose a three-per-cent rent cap in 2025 if elected to govern on October 21st.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As the campaign entered its second week yesterday, Liberal Leader Susan Holt said the cap would be reviewed annually and it could be changed, based on inflation and vacancy rates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meanwhile, Progressive Conservative Leader Blaine Higgs pledged to reduce health-care wait-times by expanding the scope of practice of nurse practitioners, registered nurses, registered psychiatric nurses, paramedics and pharmacists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Elsewhere on the campaign trail, the Green Party Leader David Coon promised to end “deep poverty” by implementing a “guaranteed livable income” within the first four years of a Green government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(The Canadian Press)
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Police say a man and a woman from P-E-I were killed on Sunday when their minivan collided with a pickup truck in New Brunswick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
R-C-M-P say the van collided head-on with the pickup, which was hauling a trailer along Route 16 near the Confederation Bridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 43-year-old male driver of the van and the 37-year-old woman in the passenger seat died at the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Police say the driver and sole occupant of the pickup was taken to hospital with serious injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(The Canadian Press)
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P-E-I’s chief public health office is looking into an outbreak of gastrointestinal illness reported among dozens of people who attended a shellfish festival over the weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A Department of Health spokesperson said in an email Monday that public health is working with the organizers of the P-E-I International Shellfish Festival in Charlottetown to determine the source of the illness to prevent further spread.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As of Monday afternoon, about 50 people had reported symptoms after attending the festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The province has created a website for attendees of the festival to report if they have recently experienced nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, stomach cramps or fever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(The Canadian Press)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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A Nova Scotia company that specializes in liming rivers to help reduce carbon dioxide says it’s expecting to start receiving payment for its innovative methods by the end of this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
CarbonRun announced yesterday it has commitments for 25 million U-S dollars in carbon credits for its work its planning on rivers in Scandinavia and eastern Canada over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The company mixes river water with crushed limestone, which helps boosts the capacity of the waterways to draw C-O-2 out of the atmosphere and in the water — and to send it deep into the sea for thousands of years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
CarbonRun says its first project on the West River in Pictou County will also be the first to result in payments from the companies buying the carbon credits. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
(The Canadian Press)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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R-C-M-P in Nova Scotia are investigating a single-vehicle crash in Coldbrook on Sunday that left a 34-year-old woman dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Police say they got a report about the crash at around 2:15 p-m and learned that a car travelling west on Highway 101 had veered off the road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They say the 39-year-old Dartmouth man who was driving the car suffered minor injuries.
The 34-year-old woman in the passenger seat was ejected from the vehicle and taken to hospital where she was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(The Canadian Press)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Some passengers who rely on an early morning bus route from Summerside to Charlottetown say a surge in demand is making it hard to book a seat online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
T-3 Transit owner Mike Cassidy says a record numbers of people have been ridden the route this month, and all 52 seats on the bus are regularly booked ahead of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, he told C-B-C News that not everyone shows up for their booking, leaving spots for riders he calls “walk-ons.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Students and some commuting workers say the service is crucial for their weekly journeys between the cities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(CBC PEI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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