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Conditions in Dorchester prison unit too dangerous for staff, union says
The minimum security unit of the Dorchester Penitentiary in New Brunswick has been in lockdown for three days because staff say it is currently too dangerous. More
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Farmers Dairy milk pulled from shelves for 'off-taste flavour'
If you recently bought Farmers Dairy milk that tastes off, the company says you can return it for a full refund.
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Impressive pearl found in Bay of Fundy scallop
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When Karen McCavour started fishing for scallops with her husband four years ago, she had no idea the mollusks could produce pearls. But over those years she has developed a growing collection, and a nearly perfect pearl discovered just last week is now one of her most prized pieces.
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Farmers meet to protect agriculture lands, attract younger generation
Farmers gathered in Fredericton this past week to brainstorm ways to attract young farmers, secure farmland and get more government support.
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Stronger ties needed between Quebec and N.B., minister says
Quebec's minister responsible for Canadian relations wants to strengthen ties with New Brunswick, saying the two provinces are linked by more than a proposed pipeline.
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Power out today — on purpose — on Lameque and Miscou islands
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People who live on the northeast islands of Lameque and Miscou will lose their power on Sunday afternoon, but not as the result of a severe thunder or ice storm.
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Residential hospice to be built this spring in Miramichi
Hospice Miramichi is ready to start construction of a $3.5 million residential hospice this spring.
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Former N.B. hockey player charged in Calgary break-in and violent attack on professor
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A Mount Royal University student and the former captain of its hockey team has been charged in a brutal attack on an MRU professor after a break-in at her Calgary home last weekend, CBC News has learned.
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Dorchester prison under lockdown for 3rd evening
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The Dorchester Penitentiary in New Brunswick has been under lockdown since Thursday afternoon due to a workplace health and safety issue.
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UNB building evacuated due to chemical spill
David Stonehouse, a spokesperson for UNB, said the incident happened Friday evening during a routine experiment in Toole Hall.
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Plastic bags woven into sleeping mats for Fredericton's homeless
A Fredericton environmental group is making sleeping mats out of old plastic bags for the city's homeless population.
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Equipment failure leaves thousands in Moncton area without power
Approximately 12,700 homes and businesses were without power in Moncton and surrounding areas Saturday morning.
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No byelection for Donald Arseneault's old riding, premier says
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There will be no byelection to replace former Liberal cabinet minister Donald Arseneault in the Campbellton-Dalhousie riding, Premier Brian Gallant said Friday.
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What's on tap? Craft beer book authors share top N.B. picks
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The newly released book East Coast Crafted: The Essential Guide to the Beers Breweries, and Brewpubs of Atlantic Canada is nearly 400 pages of stories, beer reviews and colour photos.
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Feature A tale of a shed, a spat and a social media snafu
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When a historic Maine shed floated away and beached itself in New Brunswick, reporters were calling from around the world. But the locals say no one's telling the real story.
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Ambush or self-defence? Polchies murder trial hears closing arguments
The Crown and defence presented their closing arguments Friday morning after nine days of testimony in Polchies’ second degree murder trial for the shooting death of Bobby Martin Jr.
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Man with motel rampage in his past sent to revived mental health court
David Andrew Breau, 30, was due to be sentenced Friday on multiple charges, including theft and breaching an undertaking, but provincial court Judge Henrik Tonning said Breau will get the chance instead to receive a structured treatment plan.
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Beer... in this place: new road signs point to nearest brews
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Big beers ahead. The latest New Brunswick tourism signs are of roadside brews built to entice travellers to taverns.
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Grade 6 students miss targets in science, math and reading
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New Brunswick Grade 6 students continued to struggle on standardized math, science and reading tests in 2017, according to results released Friday.
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Milk prices to increase in February
The minimum price consumers pay for milk has risen by almost a dime since 2014.
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Irving Oil butane line cleared to resume operations after leak forced evacuation
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An Irving Oil butane line that ruptured earlier this month, forcing the evacuation of part of the city's east side, has been approved to resume operations, the New Brunswick Energy and Utilities Board announced Friday.
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White nationalist group says more racist posters coming to UNB
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A white nationalist group says it's responsible for putting up more than 24 racist posters at University of New Brunswick in Fredericton this week.
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After $660,000 refit, Gondola Point ferry breakdowns make commuter fume
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After a key ferry in the Kennebecasis Valley got a lengthy and expensive upgrade, a Kingston Peninsula woman is wondering why it was out of service so soon after returning to action.
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All 3 MMA rail workers acquitted in Lac-Mégantic disaster trial
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After nine days of deliberations, jurors have acquitted the three former Montreal, Maine and Atlantic (MMA) railway employees charged with criminal negligence causing death in the 2013 Lac-Mégantic, Que., rail disaster.
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Plea postponed for man who allegedly threatened drunk driver who cost him leg
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A Fredericton-area man who lost his leg after being hit by a drunk driver and allegedly threatened to harm him had his plea postponed on Friday.
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Let it snow, ski hills ask, as erratic weather takes toll
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Snow, rain, cold temperatures, warm temperatures — New Brunswick ski hills have seen it all this winter.
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PODCAST Gallant v. Higgs: Political Panel discusses leaders' records in election issue debate
The Liberals and PCs centered early election talk on comparing the track records of their respective leaders as the CBC New Brunswick Political Panel debated likely election issues.
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Feature A familiar face on Moncton's downtown streets remembered for helping others
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He was a familiar face on Main Street in downtown Moncton. Frenchie, born Ronald Joseph Albenie LeBlanc, has lost his battle with cancer. Frenchie was often seen panhandling for change, and is being remembered for helping others.
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Plan to overhaul N.B.'s daycare system hinges on operators buying in
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The Brian Gallant government has announced an overhaul of early childhood education, but it depends on hundreds of private daycare operators signing on to the plan.
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After tax haven controversies, province weighs corporate registry law
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The New Brunswick government is looking at a proposal to require corporations in the province to reveal who their owners are, as part of an initiative pushed by the federal government in the wake of recent controversies about offshore tax havens.
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Edmundston apartment fire forces 6 people out of their homes
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Six people were forced out of their homes after a fire broke out at an apartment building in downtown Edmundston on Thursday night.
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Salmon smolt falling prey to bass as they leave Miramichi River
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A newly published three-year study says large numbers of Atlantic salmon smolt are being eaten by striped bass as the smolts leave New Brunswick's Miramichi River and enter the Gulf of St. Lawrence for open ocean.
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Frontline workers say number of Moncton homeless 'skyrocketing'
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Staff at Moncton's only two homeless shelters and a drop-in centre all say their services are in higher demand than seen in years.
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Health minister's Twitter account highlights cost of government tweeting
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Canada's health minister launched her official Twitter account last summer, and after five months posted about 250 tweets. CBC News has learned that the account requires the equivalent of 1.5 staff members to run, with at least $6,500 in overtime costs so far.
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World's biggest salmon company arrives in Bay of Fundy
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Marine Harvest, the world's biggest player in the salmon aquaculture business, is moving into the Bay of Fundy.
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'I didn't want to kill him': Evan Polchies testifies shooting was in self-defence
Polchies took the stand Thursday in Fredericton provincial court to deny allegations that he and 23-year-old Joe-Anna Hachey of Fredericton lured a drug dealer to a Lincoln mini-home so they could rob him.
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Briefcase found in attic holds clues to secret society of francophones
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An old briefcase hidden for years in an attic in northwestern New Brunswick could unlock some of the mystery surrounding a former secret society of francophones, according to historians.
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Ashley Smith death among cases cited in ruling on solitary confinement in Canadian prisons
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A B.C. Supreme Court judge has ruled that the practice of indefinite solitary confinement in Canadian prisons is unconstitutional.
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Some EpiPens, used to treat life-threatening allergic reaction, in short supply
The Canadian distributor of the EpiPen says there is a shortage of one size of the emergency treatment for people at risk of life-threatening allergic reactions.
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Driver who killed Linnea Veinotte sentenced to 21 years in prison
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The Grenada driver who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of 36-year-old New Brunswick native Linnea Veinotte has been sentenced to 21 years and eight months in prison.
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Cherryvale residents feel stranded and ignored after flooding cuts off main road
Cherryvale-area residents say they feel forgotten after their main road was cut off when heavy rain caused widespread flooding and damage last weekend.
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Fredericton doctor with 'too many patients' forced to leave city
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A Fredericton doctor says she's moving to Sussex because of a lack of "on call" support from other doctors, who told her she has too many patients in hospital.
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Mount A proposal to phase out top librarian makes students, staff want to make noise
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Students and staff at Mount Allison University are challenging a proposal that would leave the library without a chief librarian.
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Middle school students who really don't want a snow day
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A classroom at Hillcrest School in Moncton is now home to a hydroponic garden, with 72 heads of lettuce ready to be harvested and sold to help the hungry.
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As new chair of development agency, Moosehead boss targets young who leave
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More change is on the way for Enterprise Saint John with the naming of Moosehead Breweries CEO Andrew Oland as the new board chair.
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Daycare subsidies for middle-class will be transformational, says minister
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Too many middle-class families are putting too much of their income into daycare, Education and Early Childhood Development Minister Brian Kenny says.
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Differences in redaction: what happened when 2 health agencies released the same document
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New Brunswick's public health institutions are still failing to apply consistent standards to the release of information to the public.
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Sussex-based woodlot marketing board files appeal in J.D. Irving case
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The Southern New Brunswick Forest Products Marketing Board is continuing its effort to regain control over timber sales in its region.
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N.B. not ready to adapt when workforce is disrupted by technology: report
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New Brunswick ranks low on the list because of low levels of core skills, such as literacy, numeracy and problem solving
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Audio Northern Ontario First Nation 'rekindling' interest in dogsledding with help from N.B. musher
The chief of Fort Severn First Nation says a chance email from a sled dog owner trekking from Manitoba to the east coast may help revive interest in the traditional mode of transportation in his community.
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Polchies trial: Defence lawyer to argue fatal shooting was self-defence
In a series of phone conversations played in Fredericton court Wednesday, 31-year-old Evan Polchies was heard saying the murder victim attacked him.
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Pence visit to Middle East stirs anger over Jerusalem declaration
- U.S. shutdown continues into workweek as Senate talks drag on
- Philippine volcano explodes, authorities raise alert level
- Mexico had over 29,000 murders in 2017, but homicide rate still lower than some Latin American nations
- U.S. was 'warned' Turkish troops would attack Kurdish enclave in northern Syria
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'Somebody died because of that': Canada's mentally ill allowed to own, buy guns
- Traces of blood found by police in Bruce McArthur's vehicle, auto shop owner says
- Edmonton girl, 3, suffers serious injury to her hand due to botched IV line, mother says
- Quebec City Muslims alarmed by increasingly public displays of racism one year after mosque shooting
- Insurers say Canadian weather getting weirder
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'Some people just shouldn't have handguns': Mentally ill allowed to own, buy guns
- Speed Skating Canada investigating 'substantive' complaints against head coach
- Ex-U.S. athlete tells Speed Skating Canada of head coach's alleged sexual relationships with skaters
- What really happens to old clothes dropped in those in-store recycling bins
- More Rogers employees come forward, revealing how they say they're coached to upsell you
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Amazon rejection a wake-up call for Calgary's high-tech hopes
- Canadian oil selling at a deep discount - and it hurts
- Gloom over debts and NAFTA threats trounced by 'positive surprises': Don Pittis
- Business is the reluctant hero in the minimum wage transition: Don Pittis
- North Korea summit in Vancouver to focus on enforcing sanctions ahead of diplomacy
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Less than half the people deported from Canada in 2017 paid their own way home
- Pence meets Jordan king on trip clouded by Jerusalem move
- A look at Brad Wall's time as Saskatchewan premier told by those who know him and watched his career
- Trouble ahead in Canada's beer economy as 'escalator' tax takes hold
- Politicized UN committee using 'repeated and arbitrary deferrals' to block NGOs, critics say
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With a deep tech talent pool, Toronto could hit Amazon's 'sweet spot' with bid for new HQ
- Amazon would have been welcome, say Canadian tech sector CEOs whose cities were snubbed
- Trouble ahead in Canada's beer economy as 'escalator' tax takes hold
- Rogers sales tactics and the 'Tide pod challenge': CBC's Marketplace consumer cheat sheet
- Retrofitting suburbia: Old shopping malls can be saved by their parking lots
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Should we let the crowd fund Canadian science if no one else will?
- Farmers Dairy milk pulled from shelves for 'off-taste flavour'
- Midwives waiting on proclamation to begin offering services on P.E.I.
- Anti-smoking plan may kill cigarettes — and save Big Tobacco
- Artificial stomach enhancing digestive, dietary research at University of Manitoba
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'We are living in a watershed moment': SAG Awards show spotlights women in Hollywood
- Is Woody Allen finished? Industry watchers, former fans raise question in wake of renewed allegations
- Tom Petty died of accidental drug overdose, coroner says
- Soulpepper kept previous sex harassment scandal quiet for 19 months
- Lingering cold forces Céline Dion to cancel more Las Vegas concerts
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Insurers say Canadian weather getting weirder
- Amazon would have been welcome, say Canadian tech sector CEOs whose cities were snubbed
- Filmmaker aboard icebreaker documents aborted mission to study Arctic climate change
- With a deep tech talent pool, Toronto could hit Amazon's 'sweet spot' with bid for new HQ
- Should we let the crowd fund Canadian science if no one else will?
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- 'I just had a weak moment': Disgraced Blue Jays fan Ken Pagan on life after the beer toss
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'Speak goodness into your life': Former gang member now aims to save lives with suicide-prevention message
- One town, two worlds: Reconciliation in Port Alberni
- New children's book explores what sockeye salmon mean to the Gitxsan people
- Head of Métis group calls on government to buoy Manitoba fishing industry
- 'Survivor artists': Exhibit highlights work of Sixties Scoop survivors
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Canada's Simmerling undergoes surgery after breaking both legs in ski cross crash
- Patriots secure 10th Super Bowl appearance with comeback win over Jags
- Canada's Teal Harle seals Pyeongchang spot with slopestyle World Cup win
- Ivanie Blondin wins World Cup gold in women's 3,000m
- Eagles fly past Vikings to book Super Bowl berth