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Halifax fire seem after blaze on roof of a building under construction at the Richmond yards development in Halifax Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Firefighters extinguish blaze on 10th floor of Halifax under-construction highrise

Heavy black smoke could be seen billowing into the sky from kilometres away Tuesday morning after roofing materials caught fire on the 10th floor of a construction site in Halifax's north end. Halifax firefighters were called to the fire in a ...

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Boy dies in homicide at Halifax Shopping Centre parkade

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Officers with the Halifax regional police forensics unit, begin to process the scene inside a parkade at the Halifax Shopping Centre in Halifax Monday April 22, 2024.

TIM KROCHAK PHOTO

Africville Heritage Trust aims to buy land from HRM for $1

Updated 23 hours ago |5 min read

Aerial photo of the property adjacent to the Africville Church property at Fairview Cove in Halifax April 22, 2023.

Alleged N.S. grain elevator vandal left blood and a phone at the scene

Updated 7 hours ago |5 min read

Barbara Adams named as Nova Scotia’s new justice minister

Updated a day ago |1 min read

Workplace deaths trended down in Nova Scotia in 2023

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Opinion

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A man and his pyjama clad children, check out one of 3 Canadian Armed Forces crew and their LAV, on Mount Pleasant Avenue in Dartmouth Monday September September 9, 2019. The crew were members of the the 4th engineer support group from Gagetown.

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SCOTT TAYLOR: Canada's military procurement history a laundry list of broken promises

When the Trudeau Liberals announced their long-awaited defence policy update on April 8, it did not take the skeptics long to take to social media to criticize the policy paper. While the announced spending hike is enormous — the Canadian defence ...

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MICHAEL de ADDER CARTOON: Problem for another day

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Tease for Michael de Adder's editorial cartoon for Tuesday, April 23, 2024.

VOICE OF THE PEOPLE: Words you can't take back

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Justice Minister Brad Johns speaks with reporters at the media room across from Province House in downtown Halifax on Thursday, July 13, 2023. - Francis Campbell

JOHN DeMONT: We have met the enemy and they are us

Updated Apr. 19, 2024 |5 min read

BRUCE MacKINNON: Walk it back stat

Updated Apr. 19, 2024 |1 min read

GAIL LETHBRIDGE: Johns remarks spark epidemic of damage control

Updated Apr. 19, 2024 |3 min read

Business

Golfers chipping onto the green at the Mountain Golf and Country Club April 20. Richard MacKenzie

New Upper Canadian owners for two central Nova Scotia golf courses

The golf season now starting is the first full year under new ownership at Mountain Golf and Country Club in East Mountain, Colchester County and the Glen Lovat Golf Club in New Glasgow. The Crown Group of Hotels, based in Missisauga, Ont., took over ...

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Telus Cup crowds have Membertou businesses prepared for busy week in Cape Breton

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Magog Cantonniers hockey players and staff get lunch, courtesy of the Membertou Trade and Convention Centre, before their first day of Telus Cup gameplay at the Membertou Sports and Wellness Centre. The Membertou Trade and Convention Centre is providing lunch and dinner for all six teams throughout the tournament. Mitchell Ferguson/Cape Breton Post

Port of Halifax had a ‘solid year’ in 2023

Updated Apr. 21, 2024 |1 min read

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The self discharging bulk carrier, Algoma Vision, passes beneath the Macdonald Bridge as it leaves the port of Halifax Tuesday March 26, 2024.

TIM KROCHAK PHOTO

New Compass rum enters the market smoothly

Updated Apr. 19, 2024 |3 min read

2024 Outlook: Busy tourism season expected in southwestern Nova Scotia

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Canada aims to attract Honda and others with EV tax incentives

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Lifestyles

Construction worker models his regual work pants that resemble ones sold by Acne Studio

Is workwear hot fashion? Not according to these Halifax construction workers

Those jeans lying at the bottom of your laundry basket after you tended to your garden could fetch you over $800. The best part is you don't even need to wash them. Just slap on an Acne Studios tag, and you're good to go. Swedish-based fashion brand ...

Updated Apr. 19, 2024 |5 min read

Walk-in clinic closures sign of physician shortage, says Doctors Nova Scotia president

Updated a day ago |4 min read

Outside Scotia Square Medical Clinic, a person passes by and looks inside.

Haligonians make waves in international fashion scene

Updated Apr. 19, 2024 |6 min read

Model Alyssa Landmann Oliveira on the cover of L’AMOUR magazine

Curtain rises on inaugural burlesque festival in Halifax

Updated Apr. 18, 2024 |6 min read

A song for Ukraine: Cape Breton student musical collaboration spreads message of world peace

Updated Apr. 18, 2024 |7 min read

Taylor Swift surprises with second 'Tortured Poets Department' album

Updated Apr. 19, 2024 |3 min read

Sports

Atlantic All-Star event in Halifax will showcase the region's top female basketball players

Atlantic Canada's best young female basketball players will be front and centre this weekend in Halifax. Canletes is hosting an Atlantic All-Star game at Dalhousie University to showcase the 48 best high school players from across the region. The ...

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NLL: Thunderbirds playoff ready? Record crowd watches Halifax defeat Colorado in regular-season finale

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Halifax Thunderbirds captain Cody Jamieson goes airborne to get a shot off against the Colorado Mammoth in National Lacrosse League play Saturday evening at Scotiabank Centre. - NATIONAL LACROSSE LEAGUE

Underdog Northern Selects head to nationals with unflinching belief

Updated Apr. 19, 2024 |6 min read

Jorja Burrows blockering a Sabres shot safely behind her net during the Selects’ loss to the eventual champions in the semi-final game.

CEBL's Calgary Surge install St. F.X. bench boss Tyrell Vernon as new head coach

Updated Apr. 21, 2024 |4 min read

Wanderers fall 2-0 to Vancouver FC, lose second straight to start CPL season in B.C.

Updated Apr. 19, 2024 |5 min read

Auston Matthews turns it up with three-point night as Maple Leafs slay Bruins in Game 2

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Communities

A proposal from Five Corners Properties offers 3,000 new residential units in the Bible Hill area. Image Five Corners Properties

Five Corners Properties talk 3,000 unit housing project in Bible Hill, N.S.

Entrepreneur Evan Price hopes to build a Bible Hill community hub. Announced on April 1, Price's company, Five Corners Properties, applied to develop a 69-hectare plot between Brookside and Pictou Roads in Bible Hill. It was approved by Colchester ...

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‘I just want to write, and I just want to create’: Author TP Wood reflects on one year since publication of his debut novel

Updated 23 minutes ago |4 min read

TP Wood said the publication of his first novel, 77˚ North, has been a learning experience by navigating the publishing industry and the work needed to market his book. He said now he's getting back to doing what he loves to do - writing - and is currently working on a sequel to his debut novel, as well as another book and a poetry anthology. ANGELA CAPOBIANCO

Former Truro police officer pleads guilty to voyeurism charges

Updated 1 hour ago |2 min read

JinHo Kim, a former constable with the Truro Police Service, pleaded guilty Tuesday in Dartmouth provincial court to two counts of voyeurism. His sentencing hearing is set for Nov. 4.

Southampton, N.S., man killed in Mapleton single-vehicle accident

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P.E.I. woman dead, Nova Scotia woman hospitalized following head-on collision in Upper Nappan

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Local job fair coming to the Rath Eastlink Community Centre in Truro, N.S.

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Provincial

Former Truro police officer pleads guilty to voyeurism charges

A former Truro police officer has pleaded guilty in Dartmouth provincial court to two charges of voyeurism. JinHo Kim, 30, entered the guilty pleas Tuesday, when he appeared in court via a video link from Ontario. The charges involve two women who ...

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Six injured in two-vehicle head-on collision near Big Pond on Bras d'Dor Lake's southside

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RCMP arrested three people and recovered some cocaine during their investigation of thefts of Jaguar in December. - File

Southampton, N.S., man killed in Mapleton single-vehicle accident

Updated 3 hours ago |1 min read

Langley RCMP is investigating after a vehicle crashed into a community policing office in Aldergrove Sunday night.

P.E.I. woman dead, Nova Scotia woman hospitalized following head-on collision in Upper Nappan

Updated 3 hours ago |1 min read

Cape Breton Chamber of Commercer hosting discussions on transportation costs affecting goods and services

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Dozens of properties up for tax sale in Cape Breton

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Canada

Close to 700 instructors at New Brunswick Community College could go on strike in September if a contract dispute isn't settled.

New Brunswick Community College instructors in bitter contract dispute with Higgs government

Close to 700 instructors at New Brunswick Community College could go on strike in the new school year over a contract dispute with the Higgs Progressive Conservative government, says a labour leader. Susie Proulx-Daigle, the president of New ...

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'Free rein' on N.S. and N.B. rivers with baby eels must stop, say critics

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During a standing committee on fisheries and oceans in Ottawa, Conservative Halifax MP Rick Perkins accused the Liberals of incompetence on the closed elver, or baby eel, fishery.

Serious accident, east-bound TCH near Foxtrap

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The RCMP and the St. John's Regional Fire Department are on the scene Tuesday, April 23, 2024 of a serious accident on the Trans Canada Highway east-bound, east of the Foxtrap Access Road.

Testy exchange in P.E.I. legislature over measures to end Sunday hunting ban

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Man found sleeping in running car with open beer inside charged with impaired driving in Charlottetown

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Air tags lead to stolen tools and drug seizure in Summerside

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World

Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa holds his first cabinet meeting in Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, April 2, 2024.

Palestinian prime minister announces new reform package

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Newly installed Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa announced a package of reforms on Tuesday aimed at strengthening the Palestinian Authority (PA) amid increased global pressure for a revival of political ...

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Israeli forces kill Palestinian man during West Bank raid

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SENSITIVE MATERIAL. THIS IMAGE MAY OFFEND OR DISTURB Mourners carry the body of a Palestinian who was killed by the Israeli army during a raid in Jericho, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, April 23, 2024.

Two killed by Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon's Hanin

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Risk of famine 'very high' in Gaza, especially in the north, US official says

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Biden rule grants overtime pay to 4 million US workers

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German climate activists sentenced for spraying paint on Brandenburg Gate

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Former Truro police officer pleads guilty to voyeurism charges

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Firefighters extinguish blaze on 10th floor of Halifax under-construction highrise

Boy dies in homicide at Halifax Shopping Centre parkade

Africville Heritage Trust aims to buy land from HRM for $1

Alleged N.S. grain elevator vandal left blood and a phone at the scene

Barbara Adams named as Nova Scotia’s new justice minister

Workplace deaths trended down in Nova Scotia in 2023

Opinion

SCOTT TAYLOR: Canada's military procurement history a laundry list of broken promises

MICHAEL de ADDER CARTOON: Problem for another day

VOICE OF THE PEOPLE: Words you can't take back

JOHN DeMONT: We have met the enemy and they are us

BRUCE MacKINNON: Walk it back stat

GAIL LETHBRIDGE: Johns remarks spark epidemic of damage control

Business

New Upper Canadian owners for two central Nova Scotia golf courses

Telus Cup crowds have Membertou businesses prepared for busy week in Cape Breton

Port of Halifax had a ‘solid year’ in 2023

New Compass rum enters the market smoothly

2024 Outlook: Busy tourism season expected in southwestern Nova Scotia

Canada aims to attract Honda and others with EV tax incentives

Lifestyles

Is workwear hot fashion? Not according to these Halifax construction workers

Walk-in clinic closures sign of physician shortage, says Doctors Nova Scotia president

Haligonians make waves in international fashion scene

Curtain rises on inaugural burlesque festival in Halifax

A song for Ukraine: Cape Breton student musical collaboration spreads message of world peace

Taylor Swift surprises with second 'Tortured Poets Department' album

Sports

Atlantic All-Star event in Halifax will showcase the region's top female basketball players

NLL: Thunderbirds playoff ready? Record crowd watches Halifax defeat Colorado in regular-season finale

Underdog Northern Selects head to nationals with unflinching belief

CEBL's Calgary Surge install St. F.X. bench boss Tyrell Vernon as new head coach

Wanderers fall 2-0 to Vancouver FC, lose second straight to start CPL season in B.C.

Auston Matthews turns it up with three-point night as Maple Leafs slay Bruins in Game 2

Communities

Five Corners Properties talk 3,000 unit housing project in Bible Hill, N.S.

‘I just want to write, and I just want to create’: Author TP Wood reflects on one year since publication of his debut novel

Former Truro police officer pleads guilty to voyeurism charges

Southampton, N.S., man killed in Mapleton single-vehicle accident

P.E.I. woman dead, Nova Scotia woman hospitalized following head-on collision in Upper Nappan

Local job fair coming to the Rath Eastlink Community Centre in Truro, N.S.

Provincial

Former Truro police officer pleads guilty to voyeurism charges

Six injured in two-vehicle head-on collision near Big Pond on Bras d'Dor Lake's southside

Southampton, N.S., man killed in Mapleton single-vehicle accident

P.E.I. woman dead, Nova Scotia woman hospitalized following head-on collision in Upper Nappan

Cape Breton Chamber of Commercer hosting discussions on transportation costs affecting goods and services

Dozens of properties up for tax sale in Cape Breton

Canada

New Brunswick Community College instructors in bitter contract dispute with Higgs government

'Free rein' on N.S. and N.B. rivers with baby eels must stop, say critics

Serious accident, east-bound TCH near Foxtrap

Testy exchange in P.E.I. legislature over measures to end Sunday hunting ban

Man found sleeping in running car with open beer inside charged with impaired driving in Charlottetown

Air tags lead to stolen tools and drug seizure in Summerside

World

Palestinian prime minister announces new reform package

Israeli forces kill Palestinian man during West Bank raid

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