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Kuljeet Grewal is the leader of the Georgetown Living Labs project. Caitlin Coombes • Local Journalism Initiative reporter

Cleantech data collection underway in Georgetown, P.E.I.

Researchers at Georgetown Living Labs have been concluding temperature checks for heat retainment this month in residential homes throughout the town. The first step in the public data collection has been successful, and researchers at UPEI can now ...

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Edmunston net debt down $8.4M thanks to slight operational surpluses in 2023

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Edmunston Mayor Eric Marquis. Via edmundston.ca

Fredericton police investigating several shots fired, burned vehicle incidents

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New Brunswick's Horizon Health appoints Margaret Melanson as new president and CEO

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New grant to help affordable housing projects 'get off the ground'

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'Very busy' year so far for building permits, Saint John says

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Iran sentences rapper Toomaj Salehi to death over 2022-23 unrest, lawyer tells paper

Reuters |Updated 2 minutes ago |1 min read

DUBAI (Reuters) - An Iranian revolutionary court has sentenced well-known Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi to death for charges linked to Iran's 2022-23 unrest, his lawyer told Iranian newspaper Sharq on Wednesday. Salehi in his songs supported ...

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk walks to meet British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at the Chancellery of the Prime Minister in Warsaw, Poland, April, 23, 2024.

Poland's Tusk reaches for big-hitters in European election fight

Reuters |Updated 2 minutes ago |2 min read

WARSAW (Reuters) - Three ministers from the largest party in Poland's government will stand in European parliament elections, officials said, as Prime Minister Donald Tusk urged Poles to vote in a ballot he labelled one of the most important in ...

Saudi Arabian healthcare group Fakeeh Care Group announces IPO

Reuters |Updated 3 minutes ago |1 min read

DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's Fakeeh Care Group, one of the largest private hospital groups in the kingdom, said on Wednesday it planned to proceed with an initial public offering (IPO) through the sale of a 21.47% stake in existing and new ...

A view of Cobre Panama mine of Canadian First Quantum Minerals, one of the world's largest open-pit copper mines, which was forced to shut down after Panama's top court ruled that its contract was unconstitutional following nationwide protests opposed to its continued operation, during a media tour, in Donoso, Panama, January 11, 2024.

First Quantum says probability of taking out copper from Panama mine only after election

Reuters |Updated 20 minutes ago |1 min read

(Reuters) - Canadian miner First Quantum Minerals said on Wednesday the likelihood of taking out the 121,000 tonnes of copper from its disputed Cobre Panama mine can only happen after the Panama national election. First Quantum's Cobre Panama is ...

A general view of the valley of Vinales, where tobacco plants are grown, is pictured in the western Cuban province of Pinar del Rio, January 26, 2015. Picture taken January 26, 2015.

Wildfire razes pinelands near top Cuba tourist town of Viñales

Reuters |Updated 31 minutes ago |1 min read

HAVANA (Reuters) - A wildfire blazed early on Wednesday outside the picturesque western Cuba valley town of Vinales, state-run media said, threatening a region considered to be among the island's most important tourist destinations. Local media ...

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the White House initiative on climate change, at the White House in Washington, November 14, 2023.

Biden pardons 11 people, commutes sentences of five others, says White House

Reuters |Updated 33 minutes ago |1 min read

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday pardoned 11 people and commuted the sentences of five others who had been convicted of non-violent drug offenses, the White House said, the latest in a series of such actions. "Many of ...

Protesters continue to maintain the encampment on Columbia University campus, after a tense night of negotiations, in support of Palestinians, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in New York City, U.S., April 24, 2024,

Columbia extends protest deadline after students agree to dismantle some tents

Jonathan Allen and Brendan O'Brien |Updated 33 minutes ago |3 min read

By Jonathan Allen and Brendan O'Brien NEW YORK (Reuters) - Columbia University students agreed to take down "a significant number" of the dozens of tents set up on the school's main campus as part of a protest against Israel's incursion into ...

A person shops in the beverage aisle at a grocery store in Toronto, Ontario, Canada November 22, 2022.

Canada retail sales miss expectations with second monthly fall

Reuters |Updated just now |2 min read

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's retail sales contracted for the second consecutive month in February, missing expectations, data showed on Wednesday, led by a drop in sales at gasoline stations and fuel vendors. Retail sales decreased 0.1% in ...

Germany charges six suspected ISIS-K members over attack plots

Reuters |Updated 1 minutes ago |1 min read

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany has charged six foreign nationals for allegedly plotting terrorist attacks on behalf of the Islamic State Province of Khorasan (ISIS-K), the federal prosecutor's office said on Wednesday. The suspects, identified as ...

France's DGAC warns of cancelled flights at French airports due to strike

Reuters |Updated 1 minutes ago |1 min read

PARIS (Reuters) - France's DGAC civil aviation authority said on Wednesday it had asked airlines to cancel flights at Paris Orly airport by 75% and at Paris Charles-De-Gaulle airport by 55% on April 25. The DGAC made the announcement although the ...