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Federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh speaks to the NSNDP convention in Halifax .

Singh bashes Trudeau, Poilievre in Halifax, offers no hint when he'll trigger an election

Jagmeet Singh riled up party faithful on Sunday at the closing of the Nova Scotia NDP convention at the Lord Nelson in Halifax. The federal leader echoed provincial leader Claudia Chender’s claims that progressive policies passed over recent years ...

Updated 18 hours ago |3 min read

ATV passenger, 53, killed in Guysborough County rollover

Updated 16 hours ago |2 min read

A 53-year-old man is dead after an ATV rollover in South Merland on Saturday evening.

Windsor museum changing names after former title tied to slavery

Updated a day ago |2 min read

An aerial view of the Clifton Museum Park taken from a drone in 2016 by Paul Illsley. - Contributed

Legal tussle over custody of N.S. dogs dismissed: 'Too vague to be enforceable'

Updated May. 3, 2024 |6 min read

Kings, N.S., council delays decision on controversial Scots Bay campground

Updated May. 3, 2024 |3 min read

Pictou County Women's Centre letting survivors of sexual violence know they're not alone

Updated May. 3, 2024 |5 min read

Opinion

Two weeks after surgery to fix a hernia, Rick MacLean is counting down the weeks until he can hop on the bike again. Greg Rosenke • Unsplash

RICK MacLEAN: The girdle offered me a pregnancy lesson

The cool thing about regaining consciousness is how sudden it can be. One minute you’re getting to know what it’s like to be wheeled down the hall on a stretcher. It’s exactly the same view shown in all the TV shows set in hospitals. The lights of ...

Updated May. 3, 2024 |4 min read

BRUCE MacKINNON CARTOON: Ready, aim, pace yourself

Updated May. 3, 2024 |1 min read

PERSPECTIVE: Want to fix student absence rates? Reduce illness in schools

Updated May. 3, 2024 |7 min read

Teachers in Nova Scotia will hold a strike vote on April 11. Nova Scotia Teachers Union president Ryan Lutes said teachers hope job action won’t be necessary. STOCK IMAGE

GAIL LETHBRIDGE: Poilievre talking points constantly cross decorum line

Updated May. 3, 2024 |3 min read

EDITORIAL: Temporary foreign workers are critical to Atlantic Canada and deserve supports

Updated May. 3, 2024 |5 min read

JOHN DeMONT: Getting kids off screens will make them happier — here’s how

Updated May. 3, 2024 |5 min read

Business

An offshore oil rig near the Gulf of Thailand. Oil, oil prices, price of gas, fuel,.

Prices at the Pumps: Explaining recent pump fluctuations

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Updated May. 3, 2024 |1 min read

THE WRAP: TikTok kids crazy, Loblaw boycott lazy and Bargain Harley’s checks out

Updated May. 3, 2024 |4 min read

Locally made crochet tank tops retal for $79.99 but dupes retail for under $15 promting cystomers to shop from fast fashion stores

Creative Pictou County to host Economic Development Forum for Artists

Updated May. 3, 2024 |3 min read

The first Economic DevelopmentForum for Artists: Becoming an Art Town will take place on June 7 and 8 in Pictou, hosted by Creative Pictou County. Contributed

New Marriott hotel coming to Pictou County

Updated May. 3, 2024 |3 min read

Sydney-based biotech firm gets $4 million in seed funding

Updated May. 3, 2024 |3 min read

Atlantic Canadian post-secondary institutions awarded nearly $10M to commercialize research

Updated May. 3, 2024 |1 min read

Lifestyles

According to Statistics Canada, the average price of infant formula increased 30 per cent between February 2022 and February 2024. - Unsplash

Formula, food and flyers: New parents in N.L. struggling to make ends meet as cost of formula soars

Mark Hoffe Special to SaltWire “We have been giving formula to our baby from the beginning,” said Julia Leslie, an archives tech with the provincial government in Newfoundland and Labrador. A resident of the St. John’s metropolitan area, she’s ...

Updated 38 minutes ago |6 min read

20 QUESTIONS: With P.E.I. Symphony Orchestra music director Jaelem Bhate

Updated 46 minutes ago |5 min read

Newly appointed music director of the Prince Edward Island Symphony Orchestra Jaelem Bhate says his greatest joy is when he finds the strength to live in the moment. Emily Lee • Special to The Guardian

20 Questions with award winning author Michael Crummey

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Sweetland, written by Michael Crummey, is now adapted into an upcoming movie, directed by Christian Sparkes

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The East Pointers win three East Coast Music Awards in Charlottetown, P.E.I.

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Sports

Randy Staats of the Halifax Thunderbirds tries to score against Albany FireWolves goaltender Doug Jamieson in quarter-final action April 28 in Albany, N.Y. Staats had two assists in the 9-3 loss. - NATIONAL LACROSSE LEAGUE

‘I wish we could go play tomorrow’: Halifax Thunderbirds’ quarter-final loss still stinging for veteran Randy Staats

Time might heal all wounds but the sting of the Halifax Thunderbirds’ upsetting loss in their National Lacrosse League quarter-final one week ago still smarts for veteran forward Randy Staats. “It’s frustrating, man,” Staats said of the Thunderbirds’ ...

Updated 17 hours ago |6 min read

Mooseheads' Mathieu Cataford named QMJHL's most valuable player

Updated May. 3, 2024 |4 min read

Halifax Mooseheads forward Mathieu Cataford had two hat tricks during a four-game stretch leading up the Christmas break. - QMJHL

Semi-pro Saint-Laurent stuns struggling Wanderers in Canadian Championship preliminary

Updated May. 3, 2024 |3 min read

Halifax Wanderers goalkeeper Yann Fillion watches as the ball rolls into the net during a penalty shootout against CS Saint-Laurent in Telus Canadian Championship preliminary play Thursday night at the Wanderers Grounds. - CANADIAN PREMIER LEAGUE

Maritime Women's Basketball Association will be bigger, better in Year 3 - commissioner

Updated May. 3, 2024 |5 min read

Nova Scotia's Rick Bowness named finalist for NHL coach of the year

Updated May. 3, 2024 |3 min read

NHL PLAYOFFS: Nathan MacKinnon's gain comes at expense of fellow Nova Scotians

Updated May. 1, 2024 |7 min read

Communities

Published authors, from left, Maichail Reid, Sam Akao, Amani Mutuku (back) and Santeano Barrows autograph copies of their book, Windows & Mirrors, at the recent launch event in Coldbrook.
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Young Kings County, N.S., authors celebrated at Windows & Mirrors book launch

Grade 2 student Drucilla Medicraft rests the bright green permanent marker she picked for signing autographs between her index and middle fingers. She looks to the fellow published authors seated beside her at the crowded book signing table, sits up ...

Updated 20 hours ago |9 min read

Man, 18, dead after crash in Upper Stewiacke

Updated 19 hours ago |1 min read

Windsor museum changing names after former title tied to slavery

Updated a day ago |2 min read

ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Rugby player a provincial phenom

Updated May. 3, 2024 |4 min read

WORTH REPEATING: The unexpected – a moment of joy and a reason to smile

Updated May. 3, 2024 |5 min read

Kings, N.S., council delays decision on controversial Scots Bay campground

Updated May. 3, 2024 |3 min read

Canada

Sheri Sabattis, 54, was found dead at a residence in Oromocto First Nation in southern New Brunswick on April 27.

'We grieve and we are angry:' N.B. Chiefs blame feds, province in wake of homicide

The six Chiefs of the Wolastoqey Nation in New Brunswick have reacted angrily to the death of Sheri Sabattis, the sister of an Indigenous chief who police say was a homicide victim last weekend. In a statement issued late Thursday, the chiefs blamed ...

Updated 17 minutes ago |4 min read

N.B. lifts Lakeland Ridges council suspension as mayor’s race looms

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Lakeland Ridges mayoralty candidates, from left, Lance Graham, Leonard Foster and Eric Cummings field questions at an open house in Debec on May 1.

N.L. education department prioritizes hiring teachers whose majors match the subject area

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Education Minister Krista Lynn Howell speaks to reporters Tuesday afternoon in response to the NLTA news conference. -Juanita Mercer/The Telegram

Things to know to help shape your week in Newfoundland and Labrador May 6

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15-year-old youth dead, two injured after two ATVs crash in Beresford, N.B.

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India waits for details on arrests in Canada over Sikh separatist's murder

Updated a day ago |2 min read

World

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen attends a press conference at the government palace in Beirut, Lebanon May 2, 2024.

EU ends rule-of-law proceedings against Poland

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union Commission no longer believes there is a risk to the rule of law in Poland, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Monday, adding that the EU would therefore end rule-of-law proceedings ...

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Sea drone warfare has arrived. The U.S. is floundering

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Sailors assigned to Task Force 59 and members of the Royal Jordanian Navy retrieve an Iver unmanned undersea vehicle during a 60-nation International Maritime Exercise/Cutlass Express 2022 (IMX/CE22), in the Gulf of Aqaba, Jordan, in this photo taken on February 8, 2022 and released by the U.S. Navy on February 10, 2022, U.S. Naval Forces Central Command/2nd Class Dawson Roth/Handout via

Four teenagers investigated over attack on German MEP

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Member of the European Parliament Matthias Ecke walks in Dresden, Germany, April 20, 2024.

Democrat Hakeem Jeffries steps up as House Republicans roast Johnson

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Trump to return to New York courtroom for criminal hush money trial

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German ministers to hold special meeting after spate of attacks on politicians

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Singh bashes Trudeau, Poilievre in Halifax, offers no hint when he'll trigger an election

ATV passenger, 53, killed in Guysborough County rollover

Windsor museum changing names after former title tied to slavery

Legal tussle over custody of N.S. dogs dismissed: 'Too vague to be enforceable'

Kings, N.S., council delays decision on controversial Scots Bay campground

Pictou County Women's Centre letting survivors of sexual violence know they're not alone

Opinion

RICK MacLEAN: The girdle offered me a pregnancy lesson

BRUCE MacKINNON CARTOON: Ready, aim, pace yourself

PERSPECTIVE: Want to fix student absence rates? Reduce illness in schools

GAIL LETHBRIDGE: Poilievre talking points constantly cross decorum line

EDITORIAL: Temporary foreign workers are critical to Atlantic Canada and deserve supports

JOHN DeMONT: Getting kids off screens will make them happier — here’s how

Business

Prices at the Pumps: Explaining recent pump fluctuations

THE WRAP: TikTok kids crazy, Loblaw boycott lazy and Bargain Harley’s checks out

Creative Pictou County to host Economic Development Forum for Artists

New Marriott hotel coming to Pictou County

Sydney-based biotech firm gets $4 million in seed funding

Atlantic Canadian post-secondary institutions awarded nearly $10M to commercialize research

Lifestyles

Formula, food and flyers: New parents in N.L. struggling to make ends meet as cost of formula soars

20 QUESTIONS: With P.E.I. Symphony Orchestra music director Jaelem Bhate

20 Questions with award winning author Michael Crummey

Daily horoscope for May. 06, 2024

The East Pointers win three East Coast Music Awards in Charlottetown, P.E.I.

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Sports

‘I wish we could go play tomorrow’: Halifax Thunderbirds’ quarter-final loss still stinging for veteran Randy Staats

Mooseheads' Mathieu Cataford named QMJHL's most valuable player

Semi-pro Saint-Laurent stuns struggling Wanderers in Canadian Championship preliminary

Maritime Women's Basketball Association will be bigger, better in Year 3 - commissioner

Nova Scotia's Rick Bowness named finalist for NHL coach of the year

NHL PLAYOFFS: Nathan MacKinnon's gain comes at expense of fellow Nova Scotians

Communities

Young Kings County, N.S., authors celebrated at Windows & Mirrors book launch

Man, 18, dead after crash in Upper Stewiacke

Windsor museum changing names after former title tied to slavery

ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Rugby player a provincial phenom

WORTH REPEATING: The unexpected – a moment of joy and a reason to smile

Kings, N.S., council delays decision on controversial Scots Bay campground

Canada

'We grieve and we are angry:' N.B. Chiefs blame feds, province in wake of homicide

N.B. lifts Lakeland Ridges council suspension as mayor’s race looms

N.L. education department prioritizes hiring teachers whose majors match the subject area

Things to know to help shape your week in Newfoundland and Labrador May 6

15-year-old youth dead, two injured after two ATVs crash in Beresford, N.B.

India waits for details on arrests in Canada over Sikh separatist's murder

World

EU ends rule-of-law proceedings against Poland

Sea drone warfare has arrived. The U.S. is floundering

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German ministers to hold special meeting after spate of attacks on politicians

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