NewsAlert: New Brunswick election called for Sept. 14

FREDERICTON — Premier Blaine Higgs has called an election in New Brunswick for Sept. 14.

It will be the first province to go to the polls since the COVID-19 pandemic hit.

Higgs threatened last week to trigger a provincial vote unless opposition parties agreed to keep his minority government in power until 2022 — or until the pandemic was declared over.

More coming.

The Canadian Press