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A cancer patient who successfully helped lobby the New Brunswick government to fund an expensive cancer drug is now shifting his focus to P.E.I. in an effort to have Avastin funded by that province.

Canadian Football League officials and players descended on Moncton, N.B., to drum up excitement about the first regular season CFL game to be played in Atlantic Canada.

Toyota Motor Corp. Tuesday denied reports by the Wall Street Journal that the automaker plans to recall the Prius model involved in Monday's high-profile case of unintended acceleration in San Diego.

The federal government says it needs more information before it can decide whether to allow the Saint John Harbour Bridge Authority to borrow money from a financial institution to finance bridge repairs.

A significant reduction in crab stocks in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence is bad news for eastern Canadian fishermen.

A call centre in Port Hawkesbury, N.S., is laying off 94 employees. Minacs said that means half of its Cape Breton workforce will be cut by the end of April.

Seven people have been arrested in connection with a string of debit card frauds in New Brunswick that involved money being stolen from people's bank accounts.

The two Environment Canada employees involved in Sunday's small-plane emergency landing on a Yarmouth County highway were counting birds.

New Brunswick's newest millionaire, Steven Hanrahan, of Rothesay, says he's still in shock about his Lotto 6/49 win and plans to take some time before deciding how to spend the money.

Some retired mill workers in Dalhousie, N.B., are optimistic about a tentative agreement between AbitibiBowater and the union after the company dropped a proposal to terminate pension plans, which would have reduced pension benefits by an average of 25 per cent.

The majority of New Brunswickers are dissatisfied with the performance of the governing Liberal party, but that hasn't translated into more people planning to vote for the Progressive Conservatives, according to a new poll.

Ontario's Glenn Howard is undefeated at 5-0 following Monday's wins over New Brunswick and Nova Scotia at the Brier in Halifax.

Three sisters from Ethiopia were reunited in Moncton, N.B., on Monday after a three-year-long effort by a couple from Bouctouche.

CFL commissioner Mark Cohon and New Brunswick Premier Shawn Graham will reveal ticket details for the Sept. 26 regular-season game in Moncton between the Edmonton Eskimos and Toronto Argonauts.

Police say they've located a car belonging to a 30-year-old Woodstock, N.B., man who's been missing for two weeks.

Workers at Fraser Papers' Edmundston mill have reluctantly accepted a new contract that will change their pension plan and help the company emerge from bankruptcy protection, according to the union.

Joel Plaskett's latest album is called Three, but the Nova Scotian singer-songwriter more than doubled that at the East Coast Music Awards, presented in Sydney, N.S. Sunday night and capping four days of events celebrating Atlantic Canadian music.

People across the country prayed on Sunday for a New Brunswick woman, who has been missing for more than a week.

A New Brunswick woman has won a negligence lawsuit against a Newfoundland hospital and two pathologists after being told a mole she had removed was benign, only to find out six years later she had life-threatening skin cancer.

Riverview, N.B., is looking for a way to celebrate Travis Jayner, who grew up in the town and recently won a bronze medal in the Olympics for the men's 5,000 metre speed skating relay.