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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

Halifax RCMP conducting mandatory breath tests during all traffic stops in May

Updated May. 3, 2024 |2 min read

Spring herring stocks continue to struggle in Atlantic Canada

Updated 16 minutes ago |5 min read

Construction to start this spring on 144-room long-term care facility in Windsor, N.S.

Updated 29 minutes ago |6 min read

U.S. hospital network Steward files for bankruptcy, aims for new loan

Dietrich Knauth |Updated 11 minutes ago |1 min read

By Dietrich Knauth NEW YORK (Reuters) - Steward Health, which operates 30 hospitals in nine U.S. states, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Texas on Monday, aiming to secure a new loan from its landlord Medical Properties Trust. The ...

Foreign Secretary David Cameron speaks to a reporter outside St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine, May 2, 2024.

Russia warns it can strike British military targets after Cameron remarks

Reuters |Updated just now |1 min read

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia warned Britain on Monday that if British weapons were used by Ukraine to strike Russian territory then Moscow could hit back at Russian military installations and equipment both inside Ukraine and elsewhere. British ...

Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media, as his criminal trial over charges that he falsified business records to conceal money paid to silence porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016 continues, at Manhattan state court in New York City, U.S., May 6, 2024.

Judge in Trump hush money case to consider jailing Trump

Reuters |Updated 31 minutes ago |1 min read

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The judge in the criminal hush money trial of Donald Trump said on Monday that he will consider jail time for the former president for additional violations of the gag order after finding that $1,000 fines are not working as ...

Belgian and Dutch students join Gaza protest wave

Charlotte Van Campenhout |Updated just now |1 min read

By Charlotte Van Campenhout AMSTERDAM/BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Students in Belgium and the Netherlands occupied parts of the universities of Ghent and Amsterdam on Monday to protest against Israel's war in Gaza, joining international student protests that ...

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak attends a press conference at Downing Street in London, Britain, April 22, 2024.

UK's Lib Dem party to submit no-confidence motion in PM Rishi Sunak's government

Reuters |Updated 40 minutes ago |2 min read

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Liberal Democrat party said on Monday it would submit a parliamentary motion of no confidence in Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's government to force a June general election following heavy losses for the ruling ...

A wooden guard tower is pictured at the site of former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz II-Birkenau during ceremonies marking the 77th anniversary of the liberation of the camp and International Holocaust Victims Remembrance Day, in Brzezinka near Oswiecim, Poland January 27, 2022. Jakub Porzycki/Agencja Wyborcza.pl via

Holocaust survivors march in Auschwitz in shadow of Oct 7 attacks

Reuters |Updated 41 minutes ago |2 min read

OSWIECIM, Poland (Reuters) - Several thousand Jews, including Holocaust survivors personally affected by the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel, walked through the former Auschwitz Nazi German death camp on Monday for the annual March of the Living ...

County of Kings planning and development services manager Laura Mosher makes a presentation to the planning advisory committee about tourist cabins proposed for Forest Hill Road, as streamed on YouTube. COUNTY OF KINGS – YOUTUBE IMAGE

Proposed tourist cabins south of Wolfville, N.S., causing worries for residents

Kirk Starratt |Updated 1 hour ago |5 min read

The proposed development of tourist cabins on a dead-end road in southeastern Kings County is raising concerns among area residents. Kenneth Rent of Bluejacket Holdings has applied for a development agreement that would allow for the construction of ...

Formula One F1 - Miami Grand Prix - Miami International Autodrome, Miami, Florida, United States - May 5, 2024 Republican Presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump ahead of the Miami Grand Prix

Trump Media dismisses auditor BF Borgers amid SEC fraud charges

Reuters |Updated 1 hour ago |1 min read

(Reuters) - Former U.S. President Donald Trump's media and technology company said it had replaced its auditor, BF Borgers, after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged the accounting firm with "massive fraud" on Friday. Trump ...

A drone view shows boats with volunteers searching for people isolated at houses, at the flooded neighborhood of Mathias Velho in Canoas, at the Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, May 5, 2024.

Death toll from Brazil downpours climbs to 83

Reuters |Updated 1 hour ago |1 min read

SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Heavy rains battering Brazil's southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul have killed at least 83 people, authorities said on Monday, while more than a hundred were still missing. The storms have affected more than two thirds of the ...

Protesters link arms outside Hamilton Hall barricading students inside the building at Columbia University, despite an order to disband the protest encampment supporting Palestinians or face suspension, during the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in New York City, U.S., April 30, 2024.

Columbia cancels university-wide commencement ceremony after protests

Reuters |Updated just now |2 min read

By Julia Harte NEW YORK (Reuters) -Columbia University on Monday canceled its main, university-wide commencement ceremony scheduled for May 15 in favor of smaller, school-based events, a decision that follows weeks of pro-Palestinian protests that ...