With the push of a button, the long, rectangular pool inside the water treatment plant gurgles to life. Churning like jets of a giant Jacuzzi, the clear water quickly turns mud brown.
In spots, Saint John's drinking water swirls through wooden pipes - pieces of an antiquated, patch-work water treatment system that offers the same level of safety it did a century ago.
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Former senator Jesse Helms, a staunch anti-Communist and conservative who built a 30-year congressional career along the fault lines of racial politics, battling liberals and the occasional fellow Republican, died Friday. He was 86.
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NB Power crossed a regulatory Rubicon when it turned in financial statements to justify a three per cent rate increase, New Brunswick's Energy and Utilities Board ruled.
The appointment of Gino LeBlanc to head the province's commission on francophone education met with praise Friday.
Opposition Liberals in Newfoundland and Labrador say the increasing price of milk may be an indicator of more problems to come for low-income families in the province.
A week after supporting the provincial government's plan for post-secondary education, the president of the Université de Moncton has changed his mind because he said it does not go far enough to protect linguistic duality.
An independent arbitrator has handed down a split decision on two of the major issues in a bitter dispute between the St. Thomas University faculty union and the administration.
Critics blasted a new set of provincial regulations on uranium exploration and claim-staking that were unveiled on Friday, saying they will not go far enough to protect New Brunswickers.
Pakistan's army under President Pervez Musharraf supervised a shipment of uranium centrifuges to North Korea in 2000, the disgraced architect of Pakistan's atomic weapons program said Friday.
Nigeria. Rwanda. Uganda. Ethiopia. Gabon. The list of candidates for the title "least democratic in Africa" is not confined to Zimbabwe.
Hundreds of police officers, family members and townspeople applauded as statues honouring four Mounties gunned down in 2005 were unveiled Friday, the centrepiece of a memorial park near where they died.
Canada's refugee board has been ordered to take another look at an American deserter's failed bid for asylum in an unprecedented court ruling that could affect scores of other U.S. soldiers who have refused to fight in Iraq.
Police forces in some parts of the country say drivers are slowing down as the price of gasoline continues to rise.
Canadian Forces soldiers parade at the celebrations marking the 400th anniversary of the founding of Quebec City in the provincial cpaital on Thursday
After being battered for months over the contentious issue of uranium mining, the Liberal government is set to announce this morning amendments to regulations for exploration and claim-staking.
The courtroom was divided along family lines, Hoppers to the left, Tingleys to the right.
Federal Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion is hanging his political future on one.