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Nova Scotia opens key facility in its major health-care overhaul for Halifax area

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's massive health-care redevelopment plan will cross a key milestone next week with the opening of an outpatient centre in suburban Halifax that is expected to treat 280,000 patients a year.

Nov 15, 2023 2:17 PM Read more >

After July floods took four lives, Nova Scotia plans flood plain mapping by 2026

HALIFAX — A plan is now in place to create the kind of detailed flood plain maps that some of Nova Scotia's emergency managers have said they lacked when torrential flooding occurred in July.

Nov 15, 2023 1:46 PM Read more >

Unions say better working conditions needed for Nova Scotia's home-care sector

HALIFAX — Better working conditions and more safety considerations are needed to ensure Nova Scotia can recruit and keep workers in its overstressed home-care sector, a pair of union leaders told a legislature committee Tuesday.

Nov 14, 2023 2:54 PM Read more >

Nearly one-third of Newfoundland and Labrador seniors can't afford basic necessities

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Nearly a third of seniors in Canada's easternmost province can't afford basic necessities, including food, rent and medical supplies, a report by Newfoundland and Labrador's seniors' advocate has found.

Nov 14, 2023 2:16 PM Read more >

N.B. fiscal update projects $35.3-million surplus, $5 million less than budgeted

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick is now projecting a $35.3-million surplus for the current fiscal year, a drop of $5 million from what it budgeted in March.

Nov 14, 2023 1:27 PM Read more >

A Quebec man is dead after an off-road vehicle crash in northwestern New Brunswick

A 34-year-old Quebec man is dead after an off-road vehicle crashed over the weekend in northwestern New Brunswick. RCMP say three people were on an off-road vehicle that crashed and ended up in a ditch in Haut-Madawaska, N.B.

Nov 13, 2023 1:53 PM Read more >

P.E.I. campground to close permanently due to damage from post-tropical storm Fiona

LOWER NEW ANNAN, P.E.I. — After 23 years in business, the owner of a popular campground in northwestern Prince Edward Island says he’s left with no option but to close permanently because of the damage caused last fall by post-tropical storm Fiona.

Nov 13, 2023 11:42 AM Read more >

In Halifax, a city surrounded by forests, citizens call for wildfire escape routes

HALIFAX — As she stood outside her Halifax home recently and recalled the acrid smoke that filled the horizon last spring, Antoniella Assalone wondered whether she will have a safe escape route if another wildfire comes.

Nov 13, 2023 2:00 AM Read more >

N.S. man charged with attempted murder after stabbing

MIDDLE SACKVILLE, N.S. — RCMP in Nova Scotia have charged a 41-year-old man with attempted murder following an alleged stabbing that left another man with life-threatening injuries.

Nov 12, 2023 3:13 PM Read more >

One person is in custody after New Brunswick RCMP issue alert for armed suspect

New Brunswick RCMP say one person is in custody after issuing an alert for an armed suspect in the town of Sussex. RCMP say the person was arrested in connection with a firearms incident. The original alert was issued at 1:53 a.m.

Nov 11, 2023 12:49 AM Read more >