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The 2025 Expo-Sciences is scheduled to be held at the Université de Moncton on April 11th.
About 60 francophones are expected to participate in the event — and five winners will represent the province in the finals in Fredericton in June.
The participating students range from grades 6 to 12.
The students’ projects are to be judged on a range of criteria including their experiments and report writing.
(The Canadian Press)
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(NB-Canada-Summer-Games)
Moncton and the Saint John region will be hosting the 2029 Canada Summer Games.
The games will see the top young athletes from across the country compete in the nation’s largest amateur multi-sport event.
There will be 46-hundred participants in the two-week event.
New Brunswick has previously hosted the Canada Games twice, first in 1985 then 2003.
(The Canadian Press)
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(Interfaith-Border-Worries)
A religious gathering has been cancelled in Nova Scotia over fears of U-S border policies.
The North American Interfaith Network’s gathering of religious groups was supposed to meet in Wolfville this summer to address social justice issues.
The conference coordinator asked nearly 120 people who had planned to attend whether the policies of the Trump administration were making them reconsider travelling.
Most responded they were unable to commit to attending because of fears that people who were not U-S citizens might be prevented from returning home to the U-S from Canada.
(The Canadian Press)
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(NL-Election-Challenge)
Newfoundland and Labrador’s 2021 pandemic election will finally be tried in court.
The provincial Supreme Court has decided a man who says his right to vote was denied in that election will finally have his day in court with a trial to begin in June.
Whymarrh Whitby’s legal challenge asks for the election results in his district to be overturned.
The St. John’s man alleges officials failed to run a vote that was fair, impartial and in compliance with provincial law as he never received a ballot after a COVID-19 outbreak prompted election officials to cancel all in-person voting and shift to a mail-in vote.
(The Canadian Press)
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(Africville-Shooting-Reward)
The Nova Scotia government is offering 150-thousand-dollars for info on shooting that left five people injured at an Africville reunion in Halifax last summer.
Justice Minister Becky Druhan says the shooting continues to have a serious and heartbreaking impact on the victims, their families, and the wider community.
During the event celebrating the 41st annual reunion of residents in the historic Black community, police say two men exchanged gunfire near a park, and five people were shot.
The case has been added to the major unsolved crimes reward program– the first that is not a homicide or a suspicious missing persons case.
(The Canadian Press)
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(PEI-Northshore-Transit)
Starting in June, Northshore and Cavendish transit service in P-E-I will be a permanent addition to the rural transit’s summer schedule.
The government says the move will provide essential transportation for employers, employees, residents and visitors during the busy season.
The trips will run seven days a week from Summerside and Charlottetown, stopping in Kensington, Stanley Bridge, Cavendish, North Rustico, Oyster Bed Bridge, and Winsloe.
(The Canadian Press)
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