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Registered occupational therapist Chelsea Surette (left) and registered physiotherapist Maria Wamback are co-owners of the newly opened Acadian Shores Health Centre. TINA COMEAU

'Community helped make this happen': Acadian Shores Health Centre looking to give back through its services

A new health centre in Yarmouth is feeling its community roots. Not only does it feel like it was helped along by the community in starting up and offering the services it does, but it also hopes to become involved in the community. “We are very ...

Updated Mar. 26, 2024 |6 min read

Tories pushing Antigonish consolidation through with amendments

Updated Mar. 25, 2024 |2 min read

Housing Minister John Lohr announces a five-year housing plan at One Government Place in Halifax on Monday, Oct. 23, 2023. - Francis Campbell

Two people charged with drug and weapons offences in Stellarton, N.S.

Updated Mar. 25, 2024 |2 min read

RCMP have laid a third charge in connection to the homicide of Natacha Leroy. CONTRIBUTED

P.E.I. Health Coalition raises concerns over privatization threats to public health care

Updated 4 minutes ago |6 min read

Poached elvers still getting exported despite DFO busts and closed season

Updated 25 minutes ago |5 min read

Police present at HRM high schools after Monday homicide

Updated 35 minutes ago |1 min read

The sun shines behind the United Nations Secretariat Building at the United Nations Headquarters, in New York City, New York, U.S., June 18, 2021.

Russia blocks US move at UN on nuclear weapons in space

Michelle Nichols |Updated 17 minutes ago |3 min read

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Russia vetoed on Wednesday a U.S.-drafted United Nations Security Council resolution that called on countries to prevent an arms race in outer space, a move that the United States says suggests ...

Masked attackers storm anti-fascist event in Sweden

Reuters |Updated 27 minutes ago |1 min read

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Three people have been taken to hospital after masked attackers stormed a meeting in Swedish capital Stockholm, police said on Wednesday, adding that they had begun an investigation. An evening event by the Left Party about ...

Prime Minister of Barbados Mia Amor Mottley addresses the 78th Session of the U.N. General Assembly in New York City, U.S., September 22, 2023.

Barbados 'pauses' acquisition of former slavery plantation owned by Tory MP

Catarina Demony |Updated 27 minutes ago |2 min read

By Catarina Demony (Reuters) - Barbados will halt the acquisition of a former slavery plantation belonging to a British Conservative MP after locals said he should transfer land ownership to the state as a "reparations gesture" for historical ...

Mounties in Sussex arrested three people in connection with a shoplifting incident at a business in the community on April 18.

Man arrested following Sussex shoplifting also in possession of drugs: RCMP

Atlantic Briefs Desk |Updated 32 minutes ago |1 min read

Mounties in Sussex arrested three people in connection with a shoplifting incident at a business in the community on April 18. Around 2 p.m., the RCMP got a call about shoplifting in progress at a Main Street business and arrived there to find out ...

Carlos Ayapal Gonzalez Moraga, 38, of Enfield was sentenced Thursday in Nova Scotia Supreme Court in Truro on charges of sexual interference and making child pornography. Justice Jeffrey Hunt accepted a joint recommendation from lawyers for a 27-month prison term.

East Hants man pleads guilty to sexual interference, child porn charges

Steve Bruce · Multimedia Journalist |Updated 51 minutes ago |2 min read

An East Hants man has pleaded guilty to three sex-related charges involving children. Colin Wesley Pynn, 45, of Five Mile River went on trial April 8 in Nova Scotia Supreme Court in Truro on charges of sexual interference, possessing child ...

Rachel Goldberg, U.S.-Israeli mother of Hersh Goldberg Polin, which was taken hostage by Hamas militants into the Gaza Strip while attending a music festival in south Israel, holds photos of her son in their home in Jerusalem October 17, 2023

Hamas issues video showing Israeli-American hostage Goldberg-Polin

Reuters |Updated 56 minutes ago |2 min read

JERUSALEM (Reuters) -The Islamist movement Hamas published a video on Wednesday apparently showing Hersh Goldberg-Polin, an Israeli-American seized during Hamas's Oct. 7 attack on Israel and taken into Gaza, alive. The short, undated video showed the ...

A view shows a campsite set up in a field for evacuees, after an evacuation order was declared due to the proximity of a wildfire in Yellowknife, outside of High Level, Alberta, Canada August 18, 2023.

Alberta warns of critical time for wildfire risk as evacuations start

Nia Williams |Updated 1 hour ago |2 min read

By Nia Williams (Reuters) - Alberta introduced more fire restrictions on Wednesday, as officials said the 2024 wildfire season had started earlier than usual due to ongoing drought and warned that the western Canadian province was entering a ...

Canada's worries about Bunge-Viterra deal may force asset sales

Rod Nickel |Updated 1 hour ago |3 min read

By Rod Nickel WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - Canada's competition concerns about U.S. agribusiness Bunge's planned takeover of rival Viterra sets the stage for the companies to sell some assets to close the deal, experts said. Bunge's CEO Greg ...

Kyiv says passports for military-age men to be issued only in Ukraine

Reuters |Updated 1 hour ago |1 min read

(Reuters) - The Ukrainian government, further tightening regulations on mobilisation, approved rules under which passports for military-age men can be issued only inside the country. The provisions were announced on Wednesday, a day after Foreign ...

Xiaolei Wu, a citizen of China who at the time was a student at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, sits for an interview with the Federal Bureau of Investigation at its office in Chelsea, Massachusetts, December 14, 2022 in a still image from video. U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts/Handout via

Chinese student gets US prison term for threatening pro-democracy activist

Nate Raymond |Updated 1 hour ago |2 min read

By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) - A Chinese music student was sentenced on Wednesday to nine months in a U.S. prison for harassing an activist who posted fliers at the Berklee College of Music in Boston supporting democracy in China and ...