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Mother says package presenting cannabis like a 'treat' put children in hospital
The mother of a nine-year-old boy says packaging that depicts highly potent cannabis as a "treat" led her son and several classmates at a Halifax school to consume them and become violently ill earlier this week.
Tiny shelter community in Halifax suburb up and running, as province seeks new sites
Three neat rows of tiny shelters, each with a bright blue, lockable door, are up and occupied in a quiet Halifax suburb as the provincial government gradually rolls out what it is touting as an important part of its solution to homelessness.
Budget refusal will cause more access-to-information delays, N.S. info commissioner says
Nova Scotia's information commissioner says the province's rejection of her appeal for more staff will leave citizen requests to access government documents languishing in a years-long waitlist.
Senior dies in Nova Scotia after explosion caused by snow-damaged propane line
Craig Orychock says his 73-year-old mother, Glenda Orychock, died Sunday in a Halifax hospital after she suffered serious burns in the explosion Friday evening at the Silver Birch Manor seniors residence in Sydney, N.S.
Police review board calls for 2-week suspension of Halifax officer who arrested couple in park
The Nova Scotia Police Review Board has ruled that a Halifax officer who stopped a couple for being in a city park after hours should be suspended without pay for two weeks.
Why lawyers say alleged police wrongdoing in Assoun case can't be forgotten
For Sean MacDonald, the push to restart a criminal investigation into police destruction of evidence in the Glen Assoun wrongful conviction case matters both for personal reasons and for the precedent it could set.
After homeless man dies in Halifax encampment, lawyer keeps up fight for benefits
A Nova Scotia lawyer says a homeless client who died in an encampment last month had been fighting for improved income assistance for people living in tents.
Glen Assoun's daughter says probe of his wrongful conviction must become priority
The daughter of a wrongfully convicted Nova Scotia man says that even in death her father is being denied justice and she is demanding a stalled criminal investigation of his case become "a priority."
Responses from RCMP, governments, to mass shooting inquiry are on track, says observer
The head of the independent committee overseeing how governments and the RCMP are responding to recommendations from the Nova Scotia mass shooting inquiry says she has no complaints so far.
In Halifax, a call to promote old-growth forests as a guard against future wildfires
After a historic wildfire season across Canada, experts are turning their eyes to Nova Scotia as a harbinger of the growing risk facing cities on the forest's edge.
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