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New Brunswick election: Conservatives promise financial literacy curriculum

New Brunswick election: Conservatives promise financial literacy curriculum

FREDERICTON — The leader of New Brunswick's Progressive Conservatives is promising to make financial literacy part of the school curriculum if his party wins the Oct.
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Party leaders of different stripes seem to agree on involuntary addiction treatment

Party leaders of different stripes seem to agree on involuntary addiction treatment

FREDERICTON — As they both campaign for re-election, the premiers of British Columbia and New Brunswick appear to agree on one controversial issue: involuntary care for those with severe drug addictions. Earlier this month, B.C.
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N.B. election debate: Higgs defends major tax cut promise as services struggle

N.B. election debate: Higgs defends major tax cut promise as services struggle

MONCTON, N.B.
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Small English soccer team has huge year, thanks in part to Newfoundland and Labrador

Small English soccer team has huge year, thanks in part to Newfoundland and Labrador

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — An unusual advertising deal paid off for Newfoundland and Labrador as a small northern England soccer club wearing the province's name on their jerseys faced off Tuesday against one of the best-known teams on the planet.
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Ottawa finalizes $500M bailout to Nova Scotia Power to keep rates in check

Ottawa finalizes $500M bailout to Nova Scotia Power to keep rates in check

HALIFAX — Ottawa has finalized a $500-million bailout to help Nova Scotia Power keep rates from skyrocketing due to delivery delays of Muskrat Falls electricity.
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Nova Scotia wine growers walk away from government aid negotiations for industry

Nova Scotia wine growers walk away from government aid negotiations for industry

HALIFAX — The working group examining support for Nova Scotia’s wine industry has lost its co-chair, who resigned this week calling talks with the provincial government an “enormous disappointment.
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Chorus shareholders vote to approve sale of aircraft leasing business

Chorus shareholders vote to approve sale of aircraft leasing business

HALIFAX — Chorus Aviation Inc. says its shareholders have voted to approve the sale of the company's regional aircraft leasing business to HPS Investment Partners. The Halifax-based company says the $1.9-billion deal was greenlighted by 98.
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Nova Scotia wind project with 17 turbines receives $118-million federal loan

Nova Scotia wind project with 17 turbines receives $118-million federal loan

WENTWORTH, N.S. — A 17-turbine wind farm in central Nova Scotia is receiving a $118-million low-interest loan from a federal Crown corporation.
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In the news today: Non-confidence vote in Ottawa, elections continue in B.C. and N.B.

In the news today: Non-confidence vote in Ottawa, elections continue in B.C. and N.B.

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed...
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Gap between richest and the rest creates a land of disappointed citizens: economist

Gap between richest and the rest creates a land of disappointed citizens: economist

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia economist Lars Osberg's latest book on the widening gap between the very richest and the rest argues the trend is creating disappointed Canadians prone to distrusting one another and their governments.
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