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Lunenburg becomes latest Nova Scotia town to remove the name Cornwallis from municipal property
A statue of Edward Cornwallis, a controversial historical figure, is seen before being removed in a city park in Halifax on Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018. Another community in Nova Scotia has removed the name Cornwallis from it streets and parks — and the town of Lunenburg is now looking for new names from the public. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
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Community rallies behind bid to preserve home of Nova Scotia’s first Black doctor
Peggy Cameron, from the non-profit Friends of Halifax Common, stands in front of a stately home that the group is seeking heritage designation to save it from demolition in Halifax on Thursday, January 19, 2023. The home was owned by Dr. Clement Ligoure, the first Black doctor in Nova Scotia, where Dr. Ligoure operated his clinic in the early 1900s—treating hundreds of people injured by the Halifax Explosion on Dec. 6, 1917. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darren Calabrese
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Nova Scotia man pleads guilty to ‘unprovoked’ killing of young immigrant from India
A gavel sits on a desk before the a meeting of the House Justice and Human Rights Committee in Ottawa, Wednesday February 13, 2019. A Nova Scotia man has pleaded guilty to fatally stabbing a 23-year-old man who came to the province from India five years ago. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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Nova Scotia hospitals to add more staff to ER departments in response to health care crisis
Paramedics are seen at the Dartmouth General Hospital in Dartmouth, N.S. on July 4, 2013. Newly released data on Nova Scotia emergency departments show that deaths in ERs were up more than 10 per cent in 2022 compared to 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
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Nova Scotia announces changes to treat emergency room patients more quickly
Nova Scotia Health Minister Michelle Thompson fields a question at a COVID-19 briefing in Halifax on Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021. Nova Scotia's health minister has announced improvements meant to help clogged emergency departments treat patients faster in the wake of two recent deaths after lengthy waits. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
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Union calls Halifax hospital emergency department ‘revolving door’ of staff in letter
Paramedics are seen at the Dartmouth General Hospital in Dartmouth, N.S. on July 4, 2013.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
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Woman’s recent death in small Nova Scotia community deemed a homicide: RCMP
The RCMP logo is seen outside Royal Canadian Mounted Police "E" Division Headquarters, in Surrey, B.C., on April 13, 2018. The sudden death of a woman earlier this week in northern Nova Scotia has been ruled a homicide. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador report cases of new COVID-19 sub-variant ‘Kraken’
A nurse gets a swab ready to perform a test on a patient at a drive-in COVID-19 clinic in Montreal, on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020. The head of pediatrics at the largest children’s hospital in Atlantic Canada says Nova Scotia is seeing extremely high numbers of children sick amid a "perfect storm" of respiratory illnesses. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson
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Nova Scotia recruits 65 continuing-care assistants from Kenyan refugee camp
Nova Scotia says it has hired 65 continuing-care assistants on conditional offers following a recent health-care worker recruitment trip to Kenya. Health Minister Michelle Thompson, shown in this Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021, file photo, said in a statement Wednesday that one of the province’s biggest challenges is finding the health-care professionals needed to fill vacancies. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
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Nova Scotia names first member of panel studying environmental racism in province
Nova Scotia's provincial flag flies on a flagpole in Ottawa on July 3, 2020. Nova Scotia has become the second Canadian province to announce an end to holding federal immigration detainees in provincial jails, a shift that human rights advocates hope becomes a national trend. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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I’m not a morning person. But I’ve embraced rising early
Barry Rueger
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Nova Scotia’s regulator approves $164-million in Maritime Link costs for 2023
Peter Gregg, president and CEO of Nova Scotia Power, makes an appearance before the Nova Scotia legislature’s law amendments committee, in Halifax, Monday, Oct. 31, 2022. Nova Scotia’s energy regulator has approved $163.7 million to finance, operate and maintain the Maritime Link between Newfoundland and Nova Scotia in 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Keith Doucette
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Search suspended for Nova Scotia fisherman missing off Cape Sable Island
An RCAF Hercules aircraft scours the waters as members of a ground search and rescue team walk along the shore of the Bay of Fundy in Hillsburn, N.S. on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
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Nova Scotia emergency rooms closed for staffing shortages twice as often as last year, report finds
Paramedics are seen at the Dartmouth General Hospital in Dartmouth, N.S., Thursday, July 4, 2013. An emailed letter to staff of a Halifax-area hospital is warning that the pressure on the emergency rooms has risen to the point where "patients are dying in the waiting rooms" in recent weeks. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
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Nova Scotia’s robust economy and growing population help boost government revenue
Nova Scotia Finance Minister Allan MacMaster presents the 2022-23 provincial budget at the legislature in Halifax on Tuesday, March 29, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
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Nova Scotia county where mass shooting occurred to seek proposals for policing alternatives
A piper plays "Amazing Grace" as local residents look on during a local vigil in Wentworth, N.S., Friday, April 24, 2020. One of the Nova Scotia counties where the mass shooting took place in 2020 is planning to seek proposals for local policing, including alternatives to the RCMP. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Liam Hennessey
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Nova Scotia announces $140-million over four years in home-heating assistance
A passenger ferry crosses Halifax harbour through sea smoke in front of Imperial Oil's Dartmouth refinery on Thursday, Jan. 3, 2008. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
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Winter storm forces school closures in parts of the Maritimes
The corner of Queen & Grafton Street during a winter storm in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island on December 13th, 2022. John Morris/The Globe and Mail
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Nova Scotia moves a step closer to protecting 20 per cent of its land and water
Nova Scotia's provincial flag flies on a flagpole in Ottawa on July 3, 2020. Nova Scotia has become the second Canadian province to announce an end to holding federal immigration detainees in provincial jails, a shift that human rights advocates hope becomes a national trend. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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Billed as remedy for doctor shortage, virtual medicine in Nova Scotia hits bottleneck
A medical stethoscope is shown in Gaza City, Sept.7, 2015. Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual medicine provided a way for patients to see doctors during a lockdown, but it also offered hope that technology could alleviate chronic pressure on a strained health system. But for many the early promise has proven illusory. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP/Khalil Hamra
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Canada’s largest lobster fishery, in southwestern N.S., launches after weather delay
Lobster boats, loaded with pots and buoys, head from West Dover, N.S. on Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022 for the opening of the season in Lobster Fishing Area 33. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
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Nova Scotia pauses logging operations after discovery of at-risk lichen species
Logs are seen in an aerial view stacked at the Interfor sawmill, in Grand Forks, B.C., Saturday, May 12, 2018. Interfor says it will reduce lumber production in the fourth quarter of 2022 due to reduced demand. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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Carbon pricing in Nova Scotia is a good idea complicated by rising energy costs, advocate says
Nova Scotia's provincial flag flies in Ottawa, Friday July 3, 2020.  Hundreds of school staff in Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley are on the picket line today in a dispute over wages. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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RCMP union calls for more resources in recommendations to Nova Scotia mass shooting inquiry
The group that represents almost 20,000 regular members the RCMP has submitted a list of 28 recommendations to the inquiry investigating the 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia. The Mass Casualty Commission inquiry into the mass murders in rural Nova Scotia in Halifax is shown on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
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Brawl at P.E.I. hockey tournament raises tough new questions for governing body
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Red Cross distributes $27-million in Fiona donations, most to Nova Scotia, PEI
A snapped power pole hangs over a street in New Glasgow, N.S. on Wednesday, September 28, 2022 following significant damage brought by post tropical storm Fiona. The Canadian Red Cross says it has received $30.9 million in donations for Canadians impacted by post-tropical storm Fiona, and most of it has been distributed in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darren Calabrese
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Sperm whale found dead in Nova Scotia had swallowed 150 kg of fishing gear
A sperm whale is shown washed up on shore on the west side of Cape Breton Island in a Thursday, Nov.10, 2022 handout photo. The executive director of a conservation group says a sperm whale that washed ashore this month in Nova Scotia starved to death after it consumed 150 kilograms of fishing gear. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Marine Animal Response Society **MANDATORY CREDIT**
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Nova Scotia should reform immigration system to meet ambitious goals, Auditor-General says
Nova Scotia Auditor General Kim Adair fields questions at a new conference in Halifax on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022. Adair released her performance audit of immigration and population growth in the province. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
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Nova Scotia team to restore historic Hector ship with trees downed by Fiona
The historic ship Hector is shown berthed in Pictou, N.S., on Wednesday, May 4, 2016. When post-tropical storm Fiona ripped through Nova Scotia, it initially marked another setback for the team working on restoring the Hector. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Aly Thomson
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Commissioner calls on Nova Scotia government to overhaul outdated access laws
Tricia Ralph, the new freedom of information officer of Nova Scotia, poses in this undated handout photo. Nova Scotia has appointed a lawyer as the province's new freedom of information and protection of privacy watchdog. Tricia Ralph's appointment as the review officer for access to information takes effect on March 1. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO - Nova Scotia Department of Justice
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E-mails show Nova Scotia RCMP concerns about conflict of interest in hiring of spouses
Sandra McCulloch, a lawyer with Patterson Law, representing many of the families of victims and others, addresses the Mass Casualty Commission inquiry into the mass murders in rural Nova Scotia on April 18/19, 2020, in Truro, N.S. on Monday, Sept. 20, 2022. The inquiry investigating the Nova Scotia mass shooting released emails detailing conflict of interest concerns from the National Police Federation about two senior members assigned to the team providing information to the inquiry — who were later dismissed. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
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CFL’s Touchdown Atlantic provided economic boost to Nova Scotia cities, study says
The Toronto Argonauts and the Saskatchewan Roughriders play during the second half of CFL action at Acadia University in Wolfville, N.S., Saturday, July 16, 2022. The CFL’s ’22 Touchdown Atlantic generated more than $12.7 million in economic benefit to regions of Nova Scotia according to a study commissioned by the league. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darren Calabrese
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Hundreds of school staff in Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley on strike over wages
A classroom at the Newport Station District school in Newport Station, NS , April 5, 2012. The smallest school in the Annapolis Valley Regional School Board can accommodate about 300 students. Due to Nova Scotia's rapidly aging population, that's about 220 desks too many. There are currently 82 pupils at Newport Station District School, which serves kindergarten to Grade 6, learning amid empty classrooms, a gym that needs upgrading and windows in need of replacing. Last month, the board voted to close the school, arguing pupil population had declined to a point "where it is increasingly difficult to provide the best possible education for the students." It was a stark acknowledgment that school enrolment here is moving in only one direction: down. As a result, fewer and fewer children are spread out from Yarmouth on the southwest coast to the top of Cape Breton Island. The province is slicing education budgets, educators are wringing their hands and parents are fighting to save schools and spare their children the prospect of disrupted learning and longer rides to school. Paul Darrow for the Globe and Mail
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Ex-orphanage for Black kids reopens as Black business incubator, community hub
The former Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children is seen in Dartmouth, N.S., on Jan.8, 2013. The home has been renovated and reopened as an incubator for Black businesses and community hub. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
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Nova Scotia’s retirement home for captive whales facing obstacles, delays: documents
The site for a proposed whale sanctuary is seen in an area south of Port Hilford, N.S., in an undated handout photo. An ambitious plan in Nova Scotia to build North America's first coastal refuge for captive whales is at least five years behind its original schedule, newly released documents show. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Whale Sanctuary Project, *MANDATORY CREDIT*
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Hundreds of school workers in Nova Scotia set to strike next week over wages
Nova Scotia's provincial flag flies in Ottawa, Friday, July 3, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld