Aug 16 2023 — Michael MacDonald — The Canadian Press — HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's electric utility has been fined $750,000 for failing to meet 2022 performance targets set by the provincial regulator. The Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board issued a statement Wednesday saying privately owned Nova Scotia Powe...
May 17 2023 — Michael MacDonald — The Canadian Press — HALIFAX — No penalties or compliance measures will be imposed on the operator of a Cape Breton coal mine where an underground fire broke out last month, a provincial official said Wednesday. Gary O’Toole, executive director of the Labour Department's s...
May 3 2023 — Michael MacDonald — The Canadian Press — The University of New Brunswick has appointed three professors from other institutions to conduct a formal investigation into allegations of academic fraud against a former PhD student who is also a high-profile ally of former United States president D...
Apr 26 2023 — Michael MacDonald — The Canadian Press — HALIFAX — In the coming days, the federal and Nova Scotia governments will face the first deadline for action recommended by the inquiry that investigated the worst mass shooting in Canadian history. The Mass Casualty Commission, which tabled its final...
Mar 31 2023 — Michael MacDonald — The Canadian Press — HALIFAX — The brother of a man killed during a mass shooting in Nova Scotia almost three years ago says he's keen to make sure recommendations from a public inquiry released Thursday are implemented. "It's great to have things move forward," Scott McLe...
Mar 28 2023 — Michael MacDonald — The Canadian Press — HALIFAX — As a public inquiry prepares for the release of its final report into the 2020 Nova Scotia mass shooting, its findings are sure to refocus the spotlight on the RCMP's problem-plagued response to the 13-hour rampage that claimed 22 lives. Almo...
Feb 23 2023 — Michael MacDonald — The Canadian Press — HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's health minister says she has no problem with Ottawa holding the province accountable for how it will spend additional health-care money it will receive through a bilateral side deal announced Friday. Michelle Thompson made the c...
Jan 23 2023 — Michael MacDonald — The Canadian Press — HALIFAX — Prominent members of Nova Scotia's Black community are supporting a bid to protect the Halifax home and clinic of the late Clement Ligoure, the province's first Black doctor and an unsung hero of the 1917 Halifax Explosion. Originally from Tr...
Dec 19 2022 — Michael MacDonald — The Canadian Press — HALIFAX — Federal conservation officers have seized more than 7,000 lobster traps in the two years since violence flared in Nova Scotia when a First Nation tried to assert a treaty right by fishing out of season. Earlier this month, the Department of F...
Dec 1 2022 — Michael MacDonald — The Canadian Press — HALIFAX — The latest official population estimate for the world's most endangered species of whale is grim. A group of international experts recently confirmed there were about 340 surviving North Atlantic right whales as of last year — down from 348 r...
Oct 23 2022 — Michael MacDonald — The Canadian Press — HALIFAX — 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 project, announced in February 2020, calls for construct...
Oct 18 2022 — Michael MacDonald — The Canadian Press — HALIFAX — A high-profile ally of former U.S. president Donald Trump is at the centre of an academic controversy at the University of New Brunswick, where the administration has promised an independent review of how he received a PhD in 2013. Doug Mastr...
Sep 8 2022 — Michael MacDonald — The Canadian Press — HALIFAX — It wouldn't be a stretch to suggest the Queen held a special place in her heart for Canada. As an ardent world traveller, she visited this country more than any other during her reign, and she was in the habit of referring to it as home. If y...
Aug 14 2022 — Michael MacDonald — The Canadian Press — HALIFAX — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz are set to sign a green energy agreement later this month in Newfoundland that could prove pivotal to Canada's nascent hydrogen industry. The German government on Friday issued a statement confirming the agreement will be signed Aug. 23 in Stephenville, where a Newfoundland-based company […]
Aug 1 2022 — Michael MacDonald — The Canadian Press — HALIFAX — Politicians and dignitaries gathered in Halifax on Monday to commemorate Emancipation Day, the anniversary of the British Parliament's decision to abolish slavery across its empire in 1834. By some estimates, more than 15 million African women, men and children were victims of the transatlantic slave trade. And by 1750, there were about 400 […]