Author: Harry Miller

Charlottetown won both the Best of the Best tap water taste test and a new People’s Choice award at the Atlantic Canada Water and Wastewater Association conference.

The CHL picked Québec City over Moncton to host the 2028 Memorial Cup. The league president called it extremely close, and Moncton’s mayor said he was disappointed.

Memorial University had 2,682 international students this fall, down from 4,889 in 2023, after Ottawa capped study permits. New international enrolment rose 14 per cent.

The final section of the Team Gushue Highway in St. John’s opens Friday, 25 years after construction began on what was first called the Bifurcation Road.

An Atikamekw baby who died alone in a Quebec City hospital in 1954 is returning to Manawan for burial after a 12-year family search and a court-approved exhumation.

Iqaluit’s proposed $216-million capital budget for 2027 puts more than half into water and wastewater upgrades. A council committee has sent it to city council.

Inuvik Boot Lake MLA Denny Rodgers is the Northwest Territories’ new minister of health and social services, replacing Lesa Semmler, who resigned in September.

Singapore-based Boroo has agreed to buy the shut Eagle gold mine near Mayo, Yukon, for $140 million, with $40 million up front. A court still has to approve the sale.

More than 5,000 CUPE school support workers in Nova Scotia could walk off the job as early as Monday after a conciliator declared a bargaining impasse.

The S&P/TSX composite index fell 351.54 points, or 0.97 per cent, to 35,973.45 on Oct. 22 as materials lost 5.6 per cent and Celestica fell 12 per cent, while telecoms and Waste Connections rose.