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CHARLOTTETOWN — The 22-year-old leader of a group protesting changes to P.E.I.'s immigration rules says he's lost almost 15 pounds since he and other immigrants started a hunger strike outside the provincial legislature a week ago.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — The company behind a popular independent television station in Newfoundland and Labrador says it was hit by a cyberattack.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia Education Minister Becky Druhan says the province’s school lunch program will use a “pay what you can” model when it is rolled out in October.

HALIFAX — Organizations representing Acadians in Atlantic Canada are proposing the Chignecto Isthmus, which links New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, be turned into a national park.

MONTREAL — The federal Fisheries Department is giving $850,000 to a Montreal-based startup that has developed artificial intelligence technology to protect whales and other marine life from ship strikes.

FREDERICTON — Premier Blaine Higgs says he saw only one slide of the sex education presentation that he banned from New Brunswick schools.

NEW ROSS, N.S. — RCMP confirmed today that an infant girl died Monday after an all-terrain vehicle crash in western Nova Scotia.

A city councillor for St. John's, N.L., has won the Canadian First Book Prize, administered by the Griffin Poetry Prize. Maggie Burton received the $10,000 award for her poetry collection "Chores.

PROVIDENCIALES — A professional kiteboarder from P.E.I. says he has been seriously injured in a shark attack that occurred while he was snorkelling in the Turks and Caicos Islands last week.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — A unique program aimed at curbing gender-based violence by teaching teenagers about gender roles, inclusion and healthy relationships is set to expand to dozens of schools across Nova Scotia.