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The P-E-I premier is hoping cooler heads prevail and trade continues to flow uninterrupted across the U-S-Canada border.
Dennis King has been leading a team of cabinet ministers and industry representatives through three northeastern states on a bus trip to highlight the importance of the province’s potato and seafood exports.
King says Canadian products help create jobs and economic activity in the U-S, and he wants to highlight that through the trip.
P-E-I exports about 1.8-billion-dollars worth of goods to the United States each year.
(The Canadian Press)
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Leaders in Atlantic Canada are expected to meet with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today to discuss Donald Trump’s tariff threat on Canadian goods.
All of the country’s 13 premiers, including Nova Scotia’s Tim Houston and Newfoundland and Labrador’s Andrew Furey, are set to attend.
Retaliatory tariffs are expected to be on the agenda.
That’s after the incoming U-S president threatened to impose a 25 per cent tariff on Canadian goods as soon as he returns to the White House later this month.
(The Canadian Press)
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A blueberry farmer in New Brunswick says there’s no way their business can survive if the price of the fruit decreases.
Murray Tweedie operates a farm north of Moncton and says there’s concern over Donald Trump’s threat to impose a 25 per cent tariff on all products arriving in the U-S from Canada later this month.
Tweedie says a huge amount of blueberries produced in the Maritimes and Quebec are sold south of the border and farmers have to be price-competitive.
He expects there will be pressure to minimize the impact on store prices by paying farmers less.
(CBC New Brunswick)
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(PEI-Meteorite-Recording)
A P-E-I resident’s home security camera captured video and audio of a meteorite crash landing outside his front door.
Joe Velaidum told C-B-C News he found unusual debris all over his walkway last July, and he sent a sample of it to Chris Herd, the University of Alberta’s meteorite collection curator.
Herd has now confirmed the debris came from a meteorite — and the footage from Velaidum’s home camera that day may be the first to show a meteorite strike.
The sample has since been named the Charlottetown Meteorite, since Velaidum lives in Marshfield, just east of P-E-I’s capital city.
(CBC News)
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Newfoundland and Labrador has launched a provincial locum recruitment program aimed at increasing access to health care.
The program provides opportunities for physicians to work as locums throughout the province, including in communities that have had recruitment challenges.
The government says incentives include a 10-thousand-dollar bonus for physicians who provide more than 25 days of locum services per fiscal year.
The program has been in effect since the beginning of this month.
(The Canadian Press)
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Police say three pieces of art believed to have been painted by Nova Scotia folk artist Maud Lewis have been stolen from a Halifax home.
Investigators say three framed Christmas cards by Lewis were taken from a residence on Cambridge Street last November.
Each piece is approximately seven inches by five inches in size, and the cards are matted and framed.
Each of the pieces is believed to be worth about 10-thousand-dollars.
(The Canadian Press)
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