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NB Abortion Pill

New Brunswick says the abortion pill Mifegymiso is now available free of charge in the province.

The pill is approved for the medical termination of a pregnancy up to 49 days.

Health Canada authorized the pill in 2015 and it became available on the market in January, but New Brunswick Health Minister Victor Boudreau says the province is among the first in Canada to provide universal access.

Other provinces such as Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba and Alberta have said they plan to offer the pill free of charge.

7th Right Whale Death

For the seventh time in recent weeks, a North Atlantic right whale has been found dead, floating in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

The Marine Animal Response Society’s Tonya Wimmer says it’s not immediately clear what caused the death of the endangered whale.

She says the Canadian Coast Guard found the badly decomposed whale off the Magdalen Islands.

Six other such whales were found floating lifeless in roughly the same area last month, and tests have determined two may have been killed by ship strikes and the third was caught in fishing gear.