The federal government has reduced the Canada Health Transfer to New Brunswick by approximately $140,000, saying the province has failed in its obligation to fund out-of-hospital abortions.It’s only the latest event in the dispute over abortion funding between the
New Brunswick reported no new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, the first time it has done so this year.The province is also reporting that nine new people have recovered since Monday, meaning there are now only 75 active cases
After a summer marked by open borders and low COVID-19 cases across Atlantic Canada, the pandemic fortunes of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia have diverged in the first part of 2021.New Brunswick reported 657 new cases in the month
New Brunswick’s Edmundston region is now in a 14-day lockdown, as the province reported 135 active coronavirus cases in that zone on Saturday.Health officials in the province say the order is needed to curb a rise in daily infections
FREDERICTON – An epidemiologist says New Brunswick is teetering on a “knife edge” as it tries to prevent COVID-19 from spreading uncontrollably.University of Toronto professor Dr. David Fisman said New Brunswick’s current situation is similar to where Manitoba was
New Brunswick reported 17 new cases on Tuesday as the province recorded its first COVID-19-related deaths of 2021.The province confirmed that two people — an individual between the ages of 80 and 89 and an individual between 70 and
Tourism stakeholders in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia are concerned by the New Brunswick premier’s suggestion that at least 70 per cent of residents in the Maritime province should be vaccinated before travel restrictions are dropped.In a year-end interview
New Brunswick natural resources minister Mike Holland left the province in order to see his significant other for Christmas, the premier’s office has confirmed.Nicolle Carlin, director of communications for Premier Blaine Higgs’ office, said no other PC MLAs have
New Brunswick is reporting seven new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday.That means the province has reported a total of 19 new cases since the beginning of the new year.“We are seeing a spike in COVID-19 cases and we need
New Brunswick’s PC government removed the thrust of an opposition motion calling on the province to fund surgical abortions outside of the province’s hospitals on Thursday.A non-binding motion from the Liberal party called for the funding of abortions at