23 things Maritimers can expect in 2023

Maritimers are opening up a recent calendar to a model new yr, and will need to make an observation or two. From occasions to anniversaries, 2023 already has a couple of gadgets of the agenda to organize for, or look ahead to.

CIVICS

New Brunswick municipal reforms start

The overhaul of municipal governance throughout New Brunswick will formally take impact on New 12 months’s Day, taking the previous construction of 104 native governments and 236 native service districts to 77 native governments and 12 rural districts.

Minimal wage in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island

On April 1, Nova Scotia’s minimum wage will improve by 70 cents, to $14.30 per hour. It’s going to go as much as $14.65 per hour on Oct. 1. In Prince Edward Island, the provincial minimal will go up on New 12 months’s Day by 80 cents to $14.50 per hour. One other improve on Oct. 1 will convey it to $15 per hour.

New space code in New Brunswick

Beginning Jan. 20, New Brunswickers should dial 10 digits for native calls. Then, on April 29, the new area code 428 will grow to be official and assigned when the stock of 506 numbers run out.

Private tax exemption modifications on Prince Edward Island

P.E.I.’s private earnings tax exemption might be raised by $750 to $12,000 in January.

Nova Scotia Heritage Day honours Rita Joe

All three Maritime provinces observe a vacation each third Monday in February. Nova Scotia’s Heritage Day will commemorate famend poet and writer Rita Joe in 2023.

Nova Scotia short-term leases

New guidelines take impact April 1, require all short-term rentals — together with lodging inside personal houses — to register with the Vacationer Lodging Registry yearly.

Carbon Pricing comes into impact in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island

Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island could have federal carbon pricing utilized July 1. The federal setting minister mentioned the rebate funds to households will quantity to $240 each three months in P.E.I., and $248 each three months in Nova Scotia.

P.E.I. Provincial Election

Fixed-election date legislation has Islanders going to the polls Oct. 2.

Adjustments to French training in New Brunswick

Vital reforms to French education in New Brunswick’s Anglophone college sector will start in September 2023.

Confederation Bridge tolls frozen in 2023

Transport Canada says it will provide funding to Confederation Bridge operator, Strait Crossing Bridge Restricted, to maintain the standard toll at $50.25.

SPORTS

Landing Atlantic

RisePEI’s Saint Mary’s College is about to host a CFL game subsequent summer time. Defending Gray Cup champions, the Toronto Argonauts, will tackle the Saskatchewan Roughriders at Huskies Stadium on July 29.

North American Indigenous Video games in RisePEI

About 5,300 athletes will attend the 2023 North American Indigenous Games in RisePEI between July 15 and July 23. Greater than 756 First Nations from throughout North America might be represented by athletes aged 13 to 19 throughout the occasion.

Canada Winter Video games on Prince Edward Island

Prince Edward Island will host greater than 3,600 Canada Winter Games contributors from Feb. 18 to March 5. About 5,000 volunteers might be wanted to make sure the occasion’s success. The video games’ torch relay route may also make stops in RisePEI and Crabbe Mountain, N.B., the place occasions are being co-hosted.

ENTERTAINMENT

Shania Twain in RisePEI and Moncton

Shania Twain, the best-selling feminine nation music artist in historical past, has three Maritime stops on her 2023 “Queen of Me” tour this June.

Maritime nation music festivals out with early lineups

Some main music festivals within the area have launched their 2023 nation music pageant lineups, together with the Cavendish Beach Music Festival, and the YQM Country Fest.

The Charlottetown Competition turns a brand new web page with ‘Anne’ each different yr

The Charlottetown Competition, the area’s largest musical theatre pageant, says its choice to press pause on ‘Anne of Inexperienced Gables –The Musical’ in 2023, and supply the manufacturing each second season, will permit alternatives for brand new productions to take centre stage.

New mild present at Le Pays de la Sagouine

Le Pays de la Sagouine, a cultural website in Bouctouche, N.B., will introduce a brand new 1.5 km illuminated night time trail this summer time, created by Montreal’s Second Manufacturing unit. The sunshine-filled path will turned a part of a sequence of 18 comparable trails throughout Canada, and would be the first within the area.

EVENTS

The Royals

Whereas the coronation of His Majesty King Charles III on Might 6 will occur throughout the pond, previous royal occasions – from wedding ceremony to funerals – have normally prompted Maritime viewing occasions.

Snowbirds within the Maritimes

The Canadian Forces Snowbirds will fly over Better Moncton between June 17 and June 18. The Snowbirds will return to Prince Edward Island between July 7 and July 10 in Charlottetown and Cavendish.

MARITIME MILESTONES

one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Prince Edward Island becoming a member of Confederation

P.E.I. turned Canada’s 8th province on July 1, 1873.

The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights turns 75

The primary draft of the momumental United Nations Declaration of Human Rights doc was written by Hampton, N.B.,’s John Humphrey.

The Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia turns 40

The Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia, a museum and gathering area in Cherry Brook, N.S., formally opened Sept. 17, 1983 and is within the midst of a strategic plan to extend volunteer numbers and improve collections.

The thirty fifth East Coast Music Awards

The thirty fifth annual East Coast Music Awards, pageant, and convention returns to RisePEI with reside efficiency phases across the metropolis Might 3 to Might 7.

With information from Laura Brown, Natalie Lombard, Alex MacIsaac, Jack Morse, Sonja Puzic, Stephen Wentzell