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Atlantic bubble reopening plans ‘precarious,’ PEI Premier says, as COVID-19 concerns rise CHARLOTTETOWN Bookmark Please log in to listen to this story. Also available in French and Mandarin. Log In Create Free Account Getting audio file ... This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy. Full Disclaimer Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press Prince Edward Island Premier Dennis King says Atlantic Canada’s goal of reopening the regional travel b...

  HALIFAX -- As a COVID-19 outbreak continues in New Brunswick’s Edmundston region, some are asking whether the Atlantic provinces should reconsider the reopening of the Atlantic bubble, scheduled for next Monday. Nova Scotia’s picturesque Peggys Cove has withstood the highs and lows of the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on tourism. The owner of its gift shop and restaurant believes the first step to draw more visitors again is to reopen the Atlantic bubble. I think it’s good that...

PEI Premier Dennis King (Photo: Government of PEI Facebook) Prince Edward Island Premier Dennis King says the landscape of COVID-19 is very different than it was four weeks ago. This means a formal decision has not been made on the Atlantic bubble. He says the Atlantic Premiers are hoping to meet virtually later today, “Things aren’t going our way and the situation is difficult. I would say the Atlantic bubble opening on the19th is precarious right now.” King says that will be a decision ...

PEI Premier Dennis King (Photo: Government of PEI Facebook) Prince Edward Island Premier Dennis King says the landscape of COVID-19 is very different than it was four weeks ago. This means a formal decision has not been made on the Atlantic bubble. He says the Atlantic Premiers are hoping to meet virtually later today, “Things aren’t going our way and the situation is difficult. I would say the Atlantic bubble opening on the19th is precarious right now.” King says that will be a decision ...

Photo courtesy of GNB. Prince Edward Island Premier Dennis King says the landscape of COVID-19 is very different than it was four weeks ago. This means a formal decision has not been made on the Atlantic bubble. He says the Atlantic Premiers are hoping to meet virtually later today, “Things aren’t going our way and the situation is difficult. I would say the Atlantic bubble opening on the19th is precarious right now.” King says that will be a decision that the Premiers will make together ...

Two cases of COVID-19 variant first associated with South Africa confirmed in New Brunswick Kevin Bissett Bookmark Please log in to listen to this story. Also available in French and Mandarin. Log In Create Free Account Getting audio file ... This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy. Full Disclaimer Health officials in New Brunswick confirmed on Monday two cases of a variant of the novel coronavirus first identified in South Africa. Offici...

The people of St-Pierre-Miquelon are starting to get cabin fever, says a resident of the French islands. Social Sharing CBC Radio · Posted: Apr 09, 2021 5:44 PM ET | Last Updated: April 9 St-Pierre-Miquelon, a French territory off the coast of Newfoundland, is home to 6,000 people.(Eddy Kennedy/CBC) comments As It Happens6:26These French islands off Newfoundland want to join the Atlantic Bubble The people of St-Pierre-Miquelon are starting to get cabin fever, says a resident of the French...

Fifteen of the cases were in the Edmundston region (Zone 4), two were in the Fredericton region (Zone 3), and there was one each in the Moncton (Zone 1) and Saint John (Zone 2) health regions. Officials also announced the province’s 33rd COVID-related death involving a person in their 70s in the Edmundston region. Dr. Jennifer Russell, the chief medical officer of health, said Public Health is assuming all new cases of COVID-19 are the new “highly infectious” variants going forward. Russe...

NS Premier Iain Rankin (CPAC) Nova Scotia is opening a bubble with Newfoundland and Labrador – two weeks ahead of the expected reopening of the Atlantic Bubble. Nova Scotia Premier Iain Rankin says a decision to open a bubble with that province was made based on advice from Public Health noting how Newfoundland currently has low COVID-19 case numbers. However, this will not be a two-way street since Newfoundland residents will still have to self-isolate upon returning home. Nova Scotia alread...

The unsettling case of Dr. Ngola, the RCMP and the New Brunswick government  Craig Offman: Fifty pages of emails, memos and handwritten notes offer details into a troubled investigation into a COVID-19 outbreak By Craig Offman April 7, 2021 Premier Blaine Higgs heads to cast his vote in the New Brunswick provincial election in Quispamsis, N.B. on Sept. 14, 2020 (CP/Andrew Vaughan) Last spring, Jean Robert Ngola Monzinga was arguably Canada’s most infamous COVID spreader, a small-...