Here are the updated Q4 2014 population growth numbers for Canadian provinces and territories:
http://www5.statcan.gc.ca/cansim/a26...ataTable&csid=
Population up slightly year-over-year in all 3 Maritime provinces and essentially unchanged in Newfoundland. The change varies a lot by quarter to quarter and the apparent level of growth varies a lot over a given annual period, depending on whether you start or end on a local maximum or minimum. Still, a lot of news articles seem to suggest that Atlantic Canada is in extremely rough shape or is going to become depopulated but there isn't much evidence of that from either the population growth or the labour force characteristics. Slow or zero population growth doesn't mean that a place has to be an economic disaster.