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New Iconic Cape Breton restaurant Vi's shutting down, negotiating sale to province
The Nova Scotia government's Transportation Department is negotiating to buy the Vi's Restaurant property in Whycocomagh. More
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Flood-damaged Sydney school set to reopen despite incomplete repairs
Parents of students returning to Brookland Elementary School in Sydney, N.S., after March break toured the building Tuesday and emerged with mixed feelings.
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Facebook restores Halifax artist's photos of nipple tattoos
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Amber Thorpe says she does about 100 nipple tattoos on breast cancer survivors every year.
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Bridgewater wants its own public transit system
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The Town of Bridgewater wants to set up a modest public transit system. The province recently gave the town $15,000 to hire a consultant to gather feedback in the town and come up with a proposal.
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'A mucky mess': Digby County woman fed up with local road
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Jessica Cromwell says the dirt road in front of her Weymouth Falls home is nearly impassable to anything other than trucks this time of year.
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Labrador fisherman's lawyers fight to keep his agreement with fish processor
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A lawyer for a Labrador snow crab fisherman who had his fishing licence stripped by the federal minister of fisheries said the minister had no authority to do so.
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Q&A; What are your rights as a tenant if your building is under construction?
A community legal worker with Dalhousie Legal Aid offers advice to renters on their rights.
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Developer faces fine for allegedly letting tenants live in unfinished building
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The developer of an eight-storey Halifax apartment building will be fined for allegedly allowing tenants to begin living there almost two months before an occupancy permit was granted.
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Cycling advocate says helmet laws 'counterproductive,' but doctor disagrees
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A Halifax cycling advocate says if a law forcing adult cyclists to protect their heads with helmets was repealed, bicycling would actually be safer in Nova Scotia.
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Indigenous women's centre in Sydney gets $40K grant as need for services grows
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The Jane Paul Mi'kmaq Women's Resource Centre is helping at-risk clients, between the ages of 15 and 45, offering job training, counselling and other support services.
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'Cumbersome' compensation system for workers needs overhaul, says group
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The Pictou County Injured Workers Association says the system doesn't provide injured workers enough to live on and is structured to keep costs down for a small number of large employers that account for most workplace injuries.
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Halifax students producing their high school's musical after work-to-rule
Two Halifax high school students are rolling up their sleeves as they take on a big end-of-year project — organizing their high school's musical.
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Make HIV testing easier in Atlantic Canada with new insti-kits, professor advises
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Jacqueline Gahagan, interim director of the School of Health and Human Performance at Dalhousie, says there are new kits that will make HIV testing faster and easier that she'd like to see available in Atlantic Canadian pharmacies.
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NHL legends to play in Cape Breton to support boy with cancer
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A 13-year-old Cape Breton boy is getting some superstar hockey support in his fight against cancer.
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Lunenburg council kicks councillor off all committees after policy dispute
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Lunenburg Town Council has removed a councillor from all committees just four months after he was elected because he “lost the confidence” of other councillors.
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Halifax police chief 'very confident' drugs and cash were miscatalogued by officers
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Police are conducting a full audit of all drug-related exhibits, and so far have been unable to account for about $27,000 in cash exhibits along with an unspecified number of drugs and other items.
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Halifax school board wants province to pay for more bus rides
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A Halifax Regional School Board member wants the province to rethink what it considers a reasonable walking distance to school for students.
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Restaurant wants $500K from government, Nova Centre developers over lost business
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The Wooden Monkey restaurant in downtown Halifax is taking its effort to get compensation for construction-related losses to the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board.
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Why a Christmas tree was on the Macdonald Bridge this weekend
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The evergreen was placed there by Ironworkers Local 752 as part of a topping out ceremony, a tradition that marks the completion of a big job.
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Sex assault trial ends abruptly with guilty pleas on 2 lesser charges
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A trial has come to an abrupt end for a former Dalhousie University student facing charges including the alleged sexual assault of an ex-girlfriend.
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Mom loses custody of dangerously overweight son
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A Cape Breton woman has lost custody of her seven-year-old son because she allowed his weight to balloon to alarming levels, failed to provide proper care and kept him in a home infested with mice.
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Devon Marteeko Downey pleads guilty to manslaughter in Halifax assault
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Devon Marteeko Downey, 24, has pleaded guilty to manslaughter a year after he was charged in connection with a confrontation in downtown Halifax.
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Lobster thieves strike 2 fishing boats at same wharf in a week
RCMP say two caches of crustaceans taken in one week from Port Mouton, N.S., wharf.
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Nova Scotia's politicians want cameras rolling for all committees — not just some
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MLAs from all three major parties agree it's worth looking at changing legislature rules to allow the broadcast of more committee hearings.
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8-year-old girl and friends resist attempted abduction in Truro
Truro police are investigating the attempted abduction of an eight-year-old girl at a local hotel over the weekend.
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Online map sheds light on money spent to expropriate Africville land
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An amateur architectural historian spent hours reading through all of the Halifax city council minutes from the 1960s to determine how much Africville residents were paid to have their land expropriated, then built a map.
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'An awful lot' of prison violence leaves feds with growing legal burden
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Canada's prison service faced 1,200 legal actions at the end of last March — a figure the federal prison ombudsman says is enough to keep an entire law firm busy.
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Update on Halifax police drug audit finds 'significant' progress, but some exhibits still missing
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A review of 34 recommendations for the way Halifax Regional Police handle drug exhibits in criminal matters shows 24 are complete and 11 are ongoing.
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'It's a woman's world, too,' says 1st female president of Whitney Pier legion
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Myrtle MacKinnon was sworn in as the president of the Whitney Pier branch of the Royal Canadian Legion this month.
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Elite female athletes encourage girls to stick with sports
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Girls aged 8 to 18 got to train and chat with Olympic and Pam Am Games athletes at the Mic Mac Amateur Aquatic Club in Dartmouth on Sunday.
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'Major milestone' for Big Lift: Final section of Macdonald Bridge replaced
The 46th and final section of the decades-old Macdonald Bridge has been replaced, finishing the nearly two-year-long effort to redeck the suspension bridge spanning Halifax Harbour.
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Jim Gaffigan to perform in Halifax, comic's website says
Jim Gaffigan, lover of bacon, defender of McDonald's and one of the world's most popular comedians, is scheduled to perform in Halifax this spring.
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Why Nova Scotia museums are turning down most artifact donation offers
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Museums in the province are seeing a surge in the number of people wanting to hand over artifacts, but most of those donations are being turned down.
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