Atlantic News

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia will not be making a high-dose influenza vaccine free to residents 65 and over, despite recommendations from the National Advisory Committee on Immunization that the shot be used for seniors when it is available.

HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia judge leading an inquiry into the death of a former soldier who killed his family and himself in 2017 says a final report will be released sometime next year.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — For generations, Cory Munden's family has been building and living on the same piece of oceanside land in the southwestern Newfoundland town of Port aux Basques.

SYDNEY, N.S. — A change in route for the Santa Claus parade in Sydney, N.S., has caused a fallout in the Cape Breton community, where organizers and city councillors are dealing with threats.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — An auditor's report says there was no business justification for the high salaries paid to executives and managers at the Newfoundland and Labrador Crown energy corporation responsible for Muskrat Falls.

FREDERICTON — The language debate has been rekindled in Canada's only officially bilingual province, as the New Brunswick government looks to reform French immersion in schools. Premier Blaine Higgs says the French immersion program has failed.

HALIFAX — A Nova Scotia legislature committee heard Tuesday about the importance of supporting military members who want to transition to a skilled trade upon leaving the service.

FREDERICTON — Eighteen francophone groups in New Brunswick called on Tuesday for Kris Austin to resign from a legislature committee that is reviewing the province's Official Languages Act.

HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia government says new regulations mean the province's privately owned power utility could be fined if it fails to address service complaints from industrial customers in a “reasonable” time frame.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Newfoundland and Labrador health officials are making COVID-19 rapid tests widely and freely available to the public for the first time since the pandemic began. Chief medical officer of health Dr.