Nova Scotia News

Ottawa to launch $6B infrastructure fund to help build homes — with strings attached

HALIFAX — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says upcoming federal budget will include a $6-billion infrastructure fund to support homebuilding, as well as a $400-million top-up to the housing accelerator fund.

Apr 2, 2024 9:38 AM Read more >

Minimum wage up across Atlantic Canada with biggest jump in Newfoundland and Labrador

HALIFAX — The minimum wage is going up today in all four Atlantic Canadian provinces. Newfoundland and Labrador is leading the way with a 60-cent increase, bringing its hourly rate to $15.60 — the highest minimum wage in the region.

Apr 1, 2024 8:07 AM Read more >

Single-vehicle crash in Cape Breton leaves 20-year-old man dead: RCMP

POINT EDWARD, N.S. — RCMP in Nova Scotia say a 20-year-old man from Cape Breton has died after he was ejected from a vehicle. Police say they got word of a single-vehicle crash on Highway 125 near Point Edward around 6 p.m. on Saturday.

Mar 31, 2024 10:59 AM Read more >

Nova Scotia to create new volunteer 'guard' corps for emergencies

HALIFAX — Nova Scotians who want to help during natural disasters will be able to sign up for a new volunteer corps called the Nova Scotia Guard.

Mar 28, 2024 2:29 PM Read more >

Full parole granted to man convicted in notorious 'McDonald's murders' in Cape Breton

HALIFAX — More than 30 years after Nova Scotia was stunned by the brutal murders of three McDonald's restaurant workers in Cape Breton, another of the three convicted killers has been granted full parole.

Mar 28, 2024 2:15 PM Read more >

Nova Scotia sees 35 per cent cut in international student permit applications in 2024

HALIFAX — The federal government is imposing a 35 per cent cut on international study permits in Nova Scotia, curbing the growth the province's universities and colleges have seen as a result of soaring international enrolment.

Mar 28, 2024 1:44 PM Read more >

Nova Scotia government announces rate indexing for people on income assistance

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's Progressive Conservative government made an unexpected announcement Wednesday that it will index income assistance payments to keep up with inflation.

Mar 27, 2024 1:48 PM Read more >

RCMP release progress report on their response to inquiry into 2020 mass shooting

HALIFAX — The RCMP released today a strategy that they say will ensure “meaningful change” results from their response to the public inquiry into the 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia that claimed 22 lives.

Mar 27, 2024 7:04 AM Read more >

Nova Scotia announces more modular housing for health workers

HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia government will erect prefabricated homes at sites near two hospitals in the province as part of a $45-million program to address housing shortages for health-care workers.

Mar 26, 2024 12:42 PM Read more >

Need to improve Canadian productivity has reached emergency level, BoC official says

HALIFAX — A senior Bank of Canada official says the need to improve productivity has reached an emergency level as the economy faces a future where inflation may be more of a threat than in the past few decades.

Mar 26, 2024 10:12 AM Read more >