Atlantic News

Hundreds of thousands of people across Ontario were still without power on the third day of a spring storm, after freezing rain coated swaths of the province with thick layers of ice.

FREDERICTON — Freezing rain left trees and power lines coated and roads slick Monday morning as Environment Canada issued weather warnings for large parts of the Atlantic region.

HALIFAX — Two commercial fishers harvesting baby eels under new federal rules say they felt they had to stop fishing on Sunday night when a large group of Indigenous fishers arrived on the river and set up their nets.

TORONTO — Freezing rain that coated parts of Ontario in thick layers of ice, downing branches and power lines, left hundreds of thousands of residents without electricity on Sunday as the storm headed east.

New Brunswick and much of Prince Edward Island are expected to be hit with ice pellets and freezing rain beginning Monday morning. The messy weather comes as an ice storm that left hundreds of thousands without power in parts of Ontario moves east.

ST. STEPHEN, N.B. — RCMP in New Brunswick say a 27-year-old man is dead following a single-vehicle crash in St. George. Police say they responded to a report of a crash on Highway 1 around 3:15 a.m. Saturday.

FREDERICTON — Many butterflies, bees and moths are fluttering into oblivion. A new report co-authored by a Canadian researcher warns that more than one-fifth of pollinator species it studied in North America are at risk of extinction.

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HALIFAX — Nova Scotia’s lucrative seafood industry is bracing for market upheaval as it deals with the effects of tariffs imposed by China and awaits an identical 25 per cent duty from the United States.

MONCTON, N.B. — Julius Sumpf scored his second goal at 1:38 in overtime as the Moncton Wildcats edged the Quebec Remparts 4-3 in the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League playoffs on Friday.