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Kayla Hounsell - Senior reporter | CBC

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Refugee health-care workers bringing strong skills, full hearts as they take on new jobs in a new land

Nova Scotia health-care workers were recruited from one of the world's largest refugee camps as part of a federal program that aims to bridge the gap between skilled displaced people and labour shortages.

What Canada can learn from Maine's approach to the lucrative baby eel fishery

Authorities in Maine say they have figured out how to regulate a fishery that is so out of control in Canada, the federal government has shut it down this year the third shutdown in five years putting 1,100 people out of work.

Musicians say alcohol and the industry are intrinsically linked, but some want to change that

The ECMA launched a "Dry January" initiative for the first time this year because artists are increasingly talking about alcohol being so intrinsically linked to their industry.

Researchers used Hurricane Larry to prove ocean microplastics can be swept inland as air pollution

As Hurricane Larry lashed Newfoundland in 2021, universitystudents from Halifax headed to a rural area in its track to find out whether the ocean might whipmicroplasticsup into the atmosphere then transportthem by air to otherwise pristine communities.

N.S. veteran receives critical injury benefit after trauma from alleged military sex assault

In what may be a Canadian first, a Nova Scotia veteran says she feels validated after the Veterans Review and Appeal Board overturned a decision by Veterans Affairs Canada and recognized the trauma she experienced after an alleged sexual assault as a critical injury, granting her the lump sum payment of $84,203.

Deadly horse virus prompts cancellation of equestrian events across N.S.

Equestrian events across Nova Scotia are being cancelled in an effort to prevent the spread of equine herpesvirus-1, after an outbreak a local veterinarian says has killed four horses.

Meet the B.C. beetles on a cross-country mission to save Nova Scotia's hemlocks

More than 3,000 tiny beetles have been shipped across the country from their native British Columbia to try to control an invasive species killing Nova Scotias hemlock trees.

Former refugees arrive in Nova Scotia to be health-care workers

Health-care workers who gained experience in the refugee camp where they also lived are about to be continuing care assistants at a new nursing home in Nova Scotia. They've come to Canada through a federal program that seeks to bridge the gap between displaced people and a labour shortage in this country.

Blueberry farmers see a silver lining after devastating Nova Scotia wildfires

Wild blueberry growers expect wildfires to spark new growth in Nova Scotia. Blueberry plants are more resilient than most due to their large root systems beneath the ground.

N.S. community doubts refugees recruited as health-care workers will ever arrive

An international health-care worker in Nova Scotia is calling on governments to make a federal recruitment program more efficient to help others who have been waiting to immigrate to Canada and fill the gaps in the health-care system.