Page 4 - Atlantic Bubble News Today

Premier Iain Rankin and Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Robert Strang are scheduled to provide a live COVID-19 briefing at 3 pm Monday.

Tammy Scott-Wallace (Facebook) New Brunswick’s tourism minister says the staycation travel rebate program was so successful last year it has returned this year. Tammy Scott-Wallace believes this incentive encouraged New Brunswickers to help fill up campgrounds, hotels and attractions. “Last year the program contributed about $17 million to the economy. We paid out about $2.7 million in rebates,” she notes. Scott-Wallace says the province’s tourism marketing plans will be mostly focused ...

  HALIFAX -- New Brunswick announced details surrounding their COVID-19 reopening plan on Thursday, which could see the Atlantic Bubble reinstated by Canada Day. "I know this news come as a huge relief for many, many New Brunswickers," said Premier Blaine Higgs. "Many of us have been separated from our loved ones in other parts of the country for more than 14 long months." Dr. Jennifer Russell, New Brunswicks chief medical officer of health, says the plan involves three stages of slowly lo...

With the Atlantic Bubble up in the air, campgrounds across the province are preparing to welcome New Brunswick...

Article content In the long-running annual series Oh, The Humanities! National Post reporters survey academic scholarship at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, which has gone entirely virtual this year, hosted at the University of Alberta from May 27 to June 4. Over the coming days, Canadian academics will share their insights on such diverse topics as the origins of English names for sushi rolls and new techniques in student cheating. Swearing can be useful in political rhetor...

The opening of the Atlantic bubble last summer allowed families and friends to reunite across Atlantic Canada. But that reunion was short lived as COVID-19 numbers increased and provincial governments were again forced to implement stricter travel protocols.

  HALIFAX -- Prince Edward Island is reporting two new cases of COVID-19 Tuesday, as it lays out plans to reopen its borders. According to Dr. Heather Morrison, the provinces chief public health officer, the two new cases involve a person in their 20s and another in their 40s, who both recently travelled outside of Atlantic Canada. The cases are not linked and both individuals are self-isolating as required. In connection with Tuesday’s cases, P.E.I. has issued an exposure warning for f...

Nova Scotia’s Premier Iain Rankin says he’ll continue to use every legal means available to stop the spread of COVID-19 in the province — even if the effort ends up limiting individual rights.

New Brunswick reported 16 new cases of COVID-19 Thursday. 10 of those cases were discovered in the Fredericton health zone, and the other six were spread across the Moncton, Saint John, Edmundston and Bathurst regions. The government also identified 24 possible exposure sites in Fredericton, noting the cases are linked to the India variant of COVID-19. Public Health announced 12 New Brunswickers recovered since Wednesday, and the active case number is now 127. There are currently 10 New Brunswi...

(Photo: Government of New Brunswick) Discussions surrounding the Atlantic Bubble have been delayed until further notice amid ongoing COVID-19 outbreaks. The Council of Atlantic Premiers made the announcement “Premiers agreed that recent outbreaks of COVID-19, accelerated by emerging variants of concern, have made it necessary to maintain restrictions on non-essential travel within the Atlantic region,” said the release. “Premiers will revisit the re-opening of the Atlantic Travel Bubble ...