(NB-Rhodes-Scholars)
Two best friends from New Brunswick have been selected as Rhodes Scholars for 2025.
Claire Wilbur and Alyssa Xu were born in Saint John a day apart and went to the same elementary school.
Wilbur is finishing her degree in biochemistry at Mount Allison University in Sackville, and Xu is completing her neuroscience degree at Amherst College in Massachusetts.
They are among 11 Canadian students awarded Rhodes Scholarships this year.
(CTV News)
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(NB-Throne-Speech)
The New Brunswick Liberals are promising a rent cap, tax cuts and payments to nurses in their first 100 days in office.
The new provincial government says in its throne speech that it will earn the trust of New Brunswickers by quickly completing a series of pledges made on the campaign trail.
Premier Susan Holt and her Liberal team won a majority in last month’s election.
Her party says their priorities include health care, affordability and housing, education, economic development, and the environment.
(The Canadian Press)
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(Elxn-NS)
The leader of Nova Scotia’s Liberal Party says low early voter turnout may be due to “election fatigue” as next week’s provincial election comes on the heels of municipal and U-S elections.
Zach Churchill says a postal strike has also meant voters aren’t getting cards indicating early voting locations.
Elections Nova Scotia says 64-thousand early votes have been cast as of yesterday.
That’s down from the roughly 75-thousand votes cast at the same point in 2021’s summer campaign.
(The Canadian Press)
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(Immigration)
A new report finds one in five immigrants who come to Canada ultimately leave for another country within 25 years.
While the highest proportion of people leaving the country had settled in major cities, smaller cities like Halifax and Moncton saw greater immigrant retention.
The report by the Institute for Canadian Citizenship and the Conference Board of Canada calls for a retention plan at the federal level to encourage more people to stay in the country longer.
The report is based on 2020 figures.
(The Canadian Press)
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(NS-Bus-Fatal)
The driver of a Halifax transit bus that struck and killed a 24-year-old woman will not be charged.
Halifax Regional Police say the woman was trying to catch the bus when she was hit on the corner of South Park Street and Spring Garden Road last month.
She was pronounced dead at the scene.
(The Canadian Press)
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(NL-Hydrogen-Delay)
A company that wants to build a massive wind-to-hydrogen project in western Newfoundland is looking at other options as the country’s plans to supply Europe with green energy have not yet come to pass.
World Energy G-H-2 is developing a concept for what it calls a “renewable energy campus” in the region, which would use energy produced from its operations.
The campus would harness power from the planned wind turbines to power a data centre aimed at artificial intelligence companies.
Data centres are now an option since developing a commercial-scale green hydrogen market is taking longer than expected.
(The Canadian Press)
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(Atlantic-Alert-Ready)
Some residents in Atlantic Canada will get a loud noise from their phones tomorrow.
P-E-I has scheduled an Alert Ready test at 12:55 p-m local time, while the national public alerting system will be tested in New Brunswick just before 11 a-m local time.
The test that’s designed to deliver critical and potentially life-saving alerts will take place on T-V, radio and wireless devices.
No action is required from those who get the alert.
(The Canadian Press)
