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I surrendered charging decisions to my EV, and then worried about something else
Berman EV column.
Nova Scotia government revises deficit forecast higher, citing softening tax revenues
<p>Finance and Treasury Board Minister Allan MacMaster arrives at a press conference before tabling the provincial budget at the Nova Scotia legislature in Halifax on Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darren Calabrese</p>
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to attend Francophonie summit in France next week
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau waits for French President Emmanuel Macron to arrive on Parliament Hill, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024 in Ottawa. Trudeau will be travelling to France on Thursday to attend the Francophonie summit, a meeting of French-speaking countries. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
Gastrointestinal illnesses linked to P.E.I. shellfish festival jump to 550
Oyster and clam shells are seen near a dock along Netarts Bay on Friday, June 14, 2024, in Tillamook, Ore. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Jenny Kane
New Halifax restaurant Mystic aims for haute cuisine with an east coast flavour
[overall dining room -- #6 IS A KEY PHOTO TO SHOWCASE THE BOAT SCULPTURE ON THE CEILING] The ceiling over the kitchen, which resembles the bottom of a boat, is the room’s focal point. A custom rug by Vancouver-based M R Evans anchors the central part of the dining room, while curved chairs and banquettes offset the room’s linear architectural elements.
I surrendered charging decisions to my EV, and then worried about something else
Berman EV column.
Nova Scotia government revises deficit forecast higher, citing softening tax revenues
<p>Finance and Treasury Board Minister Allan MacMaster arrives at a press conference before tabling the provincial budget at the Nova Scotia legislature in Halifax on Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darren Calabrese</p>
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to attend Francophonie summit in France next week
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau waits for French President Emmanuel Macron to arrive on Parliament Hill, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024 in Ottawa. Trudeau will be travelling to France on Thursday to attend the Francophonie summit, a meeting of French-speaking countries. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
Gastrointestinal illnesses linked to P.E.I. shellfish festival jump to 550
Oyster and clam shells are seen near a dock along Netarts Bay on Friday, June 14, 2024, in Tillamook, Ore. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Jenny Kane
New Halifax restaurant Mystic aims for haute cuisine with an east coast flavour
[overall dining room -- #6 IS A KEY PHOTO TO SHOWCASE THE BOAT SCULPTURE ON THE CEILING] The ceiling over the kitchen, which resembles the bottom of a boat, is the room’s focal point. A custom rug by Vancouver-based M R Evans anchors the central part of the dining room, while curved chairs and banquettes offset the room’s linear architectural elements.
opinion
What are we talking about when we talk about defence spending?
Ken Hansen
Nova Scotia wind project with 17 turbines receives $118-million federal loan
Construction on the Higgins Wind Farm project in Higgins Mountain, N.S. is shown in a handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO
On Newfoundland’s Great Northern Peninsula, history and beauty collide
Gros Morne National Park Newfoundland Newfoundland and Labrador Tourism
how we eat
Chewy, fudge-like Newfoundland Snowballs are an East Coast delight
Julie Van Rosendaal
Via Rail CEO says late trains to Halifax ‘elephant in the room’ as service modernizes
The CEO of VIA Rail Canada says although the Crown corporation has big modernization plans for its passenger service to the Maritimes, it needs to ensure its trains run on time. Passenger trains sit on the tracks at the Via Rail Canada Maintenance Centre in Montreal, Feb. 22, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi
N.B. Tories unhappy with Blaine Higgs’s leadership sit out this provincial election
<p>New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs speaks with media outside of Government House after meeting with Lt.-Gov. Brenda Murphy in Fredericton, New Brunswick on Thursday September 19, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Stephen MacGillivray</p>
opinion
A campaign for a new New Brunswick
The Editorial Board
opinion
Solitary confinement doesn’t work
Lisa Moore
Pitching in: Rafe’s Run to raise money for IWK Foundation endowment fund
Jessica Lumiere, left, with her husband David Nicoll and children Willow, second from left, and Owen in Halifax on Wednesday, September 18, 2024. Lumiere has started a 5k fundraising walk in Halifax for the IWK Health Centre in honour of her son Rafe who died at six months from a rare form of spinal muscular atrophy. Darren Calabrese/The Globe and Mail
New Brunswick’s Blaine Higgs has lowest approval of any premier in Canada, poll shows
New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs speaks to media outside Government House following a cabinet shuffle, in Fredericton, Tuesday, June 27, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Stephen MacGillivray
Nova Scotia woman with painful condition seeks MAID amid battle to fund surgical treatment
Jennifer Brady, who suffers from lymphedema—a disease that causes an accumulation of fluid that can result in painful swelling, increased risk of blood infection, cellulitis and hardening of the skin, undergoes her daily 5+ hours of treatment in a device called a Lympha Press at her home in Halifax on Thursday, September 19, 2024. Brady has applied to end her life through medical assistance in dying following years of fighting the provincial Department of Health for access to care outside of Nova Scotia. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darren Calabrese
Regional groups expelled from national Indigenous women’s association ahead of AGM
Native Women's Association of Canada chief executive Lynne Groulx takes her seat after speaking during an event launching a graphic guide to genocide, Monday, June 19, 2023 in Ottawa. The association says it has been forced to lay off roughly half its workforce due to a major federal funding shortfall. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
New Brunswick Tory leader kicks off provincial election campaign claiming rivals plotting to share power
New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs makes a harmonized sales tax (HST) announcement in Moncton, N.B., on Thursday, July 18, 2024. Progressive Conservative Premier Blaine Higgs has said he plans this morning to seek approval from Lt.-Gov. Brenda Murphy to dissolve the legislature. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ron Ward
critic’s notebook
Jeremy Dutcher won his historic second Polaris Music Prize through bold reinvention
Brad Wheeler
New Brunswick election: Where the parties stand on treaty rights, taxes, Indigenous participation
New Brunswick party leaders (left to right) Blaine Higgs (Conservative), Susan Holt (Liberal) and David Coon (Green) are shown in recent file photos. The six chiefs of the Wolastoqey Nation in New Brunswick distributed a survey on Indigenous issues to political parties ahead of the provincial election, which is scheduled to kick off Thursday. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Stephen MacGillivray, Ron Ward
New Brunswick Indigenous group says Tory position on treaty rights ‘troublesome’
New Brunswick's provincial flag flies on a flagpole in Ottawa on July 6, 2020. New Brunswick health officials say the whooping cough outbreak that had been localized in the Acadian Peninsula in June has spread across the province. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
Transport Canada orders plan to remove huge tidal power moorings left near Walton, N.S.
Three of four shipping containers chained to the ocean floor are seen at low tide in the Bay of Fundy off the coast of Walton, N.S. on Tuesday, September 10, 2024. Transport Canada has issued an order to a bankrupt tidal power company and the bankruptcy trustee to put up buoys to mark four containers abandoned in the entrance of the harbour in Walton, N.S. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darren Calabrese
New Brunswick man suffers heart attack in hospital parking lot 18 minutes after E.R. closes
Grant Jordan is calling on the provincial government to do something about hospitals that are having to close early after he had a heart attack in the parking lot of the Sussex Health Care Centre, which turned him away due to their emergency department closing 18 minutes earlier in the evening. Jordan is seen in an undated handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-, *MANDATORY CREDIT*
Joel Plaskett turns inward with new album One Real Reveal
Joel Plaskett-20 Photo by Essery Waller
Jeremy Dutcher wins Polaris Music Prize for the second time with Motewolonuwok
Jeremy Dutcher speaks after winning the Polaris Music Prize at Massey Hall in Toronto on Tuesday, September 17, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paige Taylor White
What it takes to own and restore a Canadian heritage home
After extensive research Jane Henson and husband Ed MacDonald began restoration of their historic home in Lunenburg, N.S., in 2014 and moved in four years later.
secret canada
Watchdog calls out New Brunswick health authority for refusing to release costly travel nurse contracts
Georges L Dumont public hospital in Moncton, N.B. is shown on Thursday Oct. 8, 2020. The head of New Brunswick's francophone health network, Dr. France Desrosiers, came out swinging and launched a spirited defence of Vitalite's spending on travel nurse contracts. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Marc Grandmaison
Two youths arrested after emergency alert issued in New Brunswick
The RCMP logo is seen outside Royal Canadian Mounted Police "E" Division Headquarters, in Surrey, B.C., on April 13, 2018. An emergency alert has been issued in New Brunswick warning people to watch out for someone carrying a gun in the province's southeast. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Federal $500-million bailout for Muskrat Falls power delays to keep N.S. rate hikes in check
Ottawa is negotiating a bailout of $500 million to help avoid a jolting power hike in Nova Scotia related to delivery delays of Muskrat Falls hydroelectricity over the past five years. Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson speaks during a press conference in Halifax, Monday, Sept. 16, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Michael Tutton
Halifax library workers accept deal to end strike, branches to re-open Thursday
<p>Pedestrians head past Halifax Central Library in Halifax on Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2015. Members of the union representing Halifax Public Libraries workers have accepted a new collective agreement, ending a nearly month-long strike. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan</p>
Nova Scotia premier repeats calls for Ottawa to pay for protecting Chignecto Isthmus
<p>Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, left, meets with Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston in Halifax on Tuesday, October 4, 2022. Nova Scotia's premier is repeating his government’s calls for Ottawa to foot the full bill to protect a vital strip of land that connects the province to the rest of the country ahead of a new parliamentary session. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darren Calabrese</p>
Halifax libraries, union announce tentative deal to end nearly month-long strike
A public library supporter holds a sign in front of the picket line at the Halifax Central Library on Wednesday, Aug. 28.