In Canada's Atlantic provinces, the onset of winter is starting to keep boats in harbour, allowing tempers to cool.

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His members of parliament grew restless: defections have cut their number to 15, all but two from the Atlantic provinces.

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Home to 2.3m people, the Atlantic provinces have yet to find reliable alternatives to their past mainstays of fishing, lumber and military bases.

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Other party leaders have their eyes on the Atlantic provinces too.

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But unless the politicians find ways to halt the exodus of young people from the Atlantic provinces to Toronto and Alberta, the money may not make much difference.

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The Atlantic provinces won a deal that their earnings from offshore oil and gas would not be taken into account in calculating federal payments to equalise social services across the country.

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But if the prime minister is to win the third term he covets, the Liberals must do better in the Atlantic provinces, since they face a revitalised opposition in Ontario and western Canada.

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He found that Canada was a land of distinct communities and regions with their own anxieties, from the seasonal loggers and fishermen of British Columbia and the Atlantic provinces to the farmers of the prairie states, who were worried about gun-registration laws and the paternalistic approach of Ottawa towards native peoples.

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But every day, hundreds of ASF volunteers battle for the species on the ground, rebuilding and restoring river and fish-spawning habitat in the Atlantic Canada provinces and Maine.

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