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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

Woman arrested after stealing vehicle with dog inside from Saint John home

Updated 3 minutes ago |2 min read

Newfoundland woman banned from driving picks up new charges after speeding from Bonavista RCMP

Updated 1 hour ago |2 min read

Spring weight restrictions lifted early on southern New Brunswick highways and roads

Updated 10 minutes ago |1 min read

Drones are seen at a site at an undisclosed location in Iran, in this handout image obtained on April 20, 2023. Iranian Army/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Handout via

New UK sanctions target Iranian drone industry

Reuters |Updated 19 minutes ago |1 min read

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain on Thursday announced new sanctions targeting Iran's military drone industry, in response to Iran's drone and missile attack on Israel earlier this month. The measures, taken in co-ordination with the U.S. and Canada, ...

Spokeswoman of Russia's Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova attends the annual press conference held by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow, Russia, January 18, 2024.

Russia says Polish discussion on hosting US nuclear weapons is dangerous

Reuters |Updated 20 minutes ago |2 min read

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Thursday that Poland was playing a "very dangerous game" by considering the possibility of hosting U.S. nuclear weapons. Polish President Andrzej Duda said on Thursday he had invited Prime Minister Donald Tusk ...

The flags of Germany and China are seen in Berlin, Germany, June 19, 2023.

China summons German ambassador after spying arrests

Reuters |Updated 39 minutes ago |1 min read

BERLIN (Reuters) - The German ambassador to China was summoned by Beijing on Thursday in response to several arrests in Germany on suspicion of Chinese espionage, a spokesperson for the German foreign ministry told Reuters. The spokesperson added ...

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen attends a press conference in Beijing, China April 8, 2024.

Nothing off the table in US response to China overcapacity, Yellen says

Reuters |Updated 42 minutes ago |1 min read

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Biden administration is not taking anything off the table with regard to a potential response to China's industrial overcapacity, which is a top concern for the U.S. and its allies, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen ...

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A school of Mackerel, feed along the waterfront in Halifax Monday September 18, 2017.

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DFO opening mackerel bait fishery for Atlantic Canada and Quebec, but commercial fishery remains closed

Gary Kean |Updated 45 minutes ago |3 min read

The federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans has announced the opening of a mackerel bait fishery for Atlantic Canada and Quebec. The 470-tonne personal-use bait fishery will open this spring, but the Atlantic mackerel commercial fishery in ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the Congress of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs in Moscow, Russia April 25, 2024.

Putin urges restraint in state seizure of assets

Reuters |Updated 50 minutes ago |2 min read

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has reminded prosecutors that seizing assets and turning them over to state ownership is only justified in cases where failing to act might jeopardise Russia's national security. Many assets in ...

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Ukraine Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal speak to the press after a bilateral meeting at the U.S. Treasury Department Building in Washington, D.C., U.S. April 13, 2023.

Yellen says range of options to deal with frozen Russian assets

Reuters |Updated 51 minutes ago |1 min read

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Thursday the outright seizure of Russian assets is justifiable but is only one possibility, with assets instead able to serve as collateral for borrowing in the market to help ...

Smoke rises from an airstrike in Gaza, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, as seen from Israel, April 25, 2024.

Hamas insists Gaza war end for any hostage deal, says won't be swayed by U.S. pressure

Reuters |Updated 1 hour ago |1 min read

CAIRO (Reuters) - Hamas reiterated on Thursday its demand Israel end the Gaza war as part of any deal to release hostages held there, with Sami Abu Zuhri, a senior official in the Palestinian militant group, telling Reuters that U.S. pressure on ...

The Georgetown Fire Department responded to a fire beside Route 3 in Georgetown Royalty earlier this month that almost spread into the woods. It is believed to have started by a cigarette butt. Contributed

Fires in Kings County, P.E.I., believe caused by cigarette butts

Dave Stewart · Journalist |Updated 1 hour ago |3 min read

Fire departments in Kings County have dealt with several grass fires this spring, and at least two of them appear to have started due to discarded cigarette butts. Roy Wood, chief of the Georgetown Fire Department, said a cigarette butt was found ...

Haiti's Prime Minister Ariel Henry takes part in the Canada-CARICOM Summit in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada October 18, 2023.

Haiti PM Henry steps down as transitional government takes power

Reuters |Updated 9 minutes ago |1 min read

(Reuters) - Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry has resigned, his office said on Thursday, as a transitional council prepares to lead the country aiming to bring back tranquility amid the havoc caused by widespread gang violence. Henry's finance ...