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New Brunswick this week - CBC news

• Avastin fight now moves to P.E.I.
  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.
• Tickets for CFL Moncton game start at $29
  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 denies Prius recall coming
  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.
• Ottawa stalls Harbour Bridge repairs
  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.
• Eastern snow crab stocks down 57%
  A significant reduction in crab stocks in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence is bad news for eastern Canadian fishermen.
• 94 jobs lost at CB call centre
  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.
• 7 arrested in string of debit frauds
  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.
• Crashed plane was chartered to count birds
  The two Environment Canada employees involved in Sunday's small-plane emergency landing on a Yarmouth County highway were counting birds.
• Rothesay man wins $1 million
  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.
• Dalhousie welcomes AbitibiBowater deal
  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.