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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.
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.
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.
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.
(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.
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.
The 43-year-old male driver of the van and the 37-year-old woman in the passenger seat died at the scene.
Police say the driver and sole occupant of the pickup was taken to hospital with serious injuries.
(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.
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.
As of Monday afternoon, about 50 people had reported symptoms after attending the festival.
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.
(The Canadian Press)
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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.
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.
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.
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.
(The Canadian Press)
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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.
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.
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.
(The Canadian Press)
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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.
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.
However, he told C-B-C News that not everyone shows up for their booking, leaving spots for riders he calls “walk-ons.”
Students and some commuting workers say the service is crucial for their weekly journeys between the cities.
(CBC PEI)