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Halifax RCMP are investigating after a single-vehicle crash killed one and left one injured near French Village, N.S., on Sunday morning. - File

One killed, one injured after single-vehicle crash in French Village, N.S.

A 28-year-old woman is dead and a 29-year-old man suffered serious injuries following a French Village, N.S., car crash on Sunday morning. At about 7 a.m., Halifax RCMP responded to a single-car crash on Peggys Cove Road near the 12000 block where a ...

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Bedford driver clocked at 248 km/h on Timberlea highway charged with stunting

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A 21-year-old Bedford, N.S. man has been charged with stunting after being clocked travelling 248 km/h in a 110 km/h zone in Timberlea on April 29. - File photo

Threats lead to early dismissal at Halifax West, École secondaire du Sommet students to relocate

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Halifax regional police are seen parked in front of Halifax West High School in Halifax Monday April 29, 2024.

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Barrington Care & Recovery Centre celebrates extended lease after lobbying effort

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Day of Mourning ceremony honours Nova Scotia's 18 work-related deaths in 2023

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On Tuesday the Department of Justice issued a press release saying Zimmer would be replaced as the judge overseeing the Desmond inquiry. Minister Brad Johns stated that the Desmond family and the public had been waiting more than five years for answers -- Francis Campbell photo

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RE: 'Johns in hot seat after gaffe,' Cape Breton Post, April 20. I think the comment by now former Nova Scotia Justice Minister Brad Johns that gender-based violence isn't epidemic is an unfortunate example of the attitude held by many people. It ...

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CBRM District 12 Coun. Lorne Green told the Cape Breton Post Monday night that rumours of the Pallet shelter village not coming to Whitney Pier were, from his standpoint, true. IAN NATHANSON/CAPE BRETON POST

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A handout photograph, shot in January 2024, shows a woman and baby at the Zamzam displacement camp, close to El Fasher in North Darfur, Sudan. Some 800,000 people in a Sudanese city are in "extreme and immediate danger" as worsening violence advances and threatens to "unleash bloody intercommunal strife throughout Darfur," top U.N. officials warned the Security Council last week. - MSF/Mohamed Zakaria/Handout via REUTERS

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Aug. 25, 2011--A newer, smaller bag of Ben's Holsum Fresh Enriched White bread for story on how food quantities are shrinking while prices stay the same, or increase.

You knead to be careful about online Ben's Bread rumours

Proving that no molehill is too small to turn into a mountain, social media in Halifax this week flamed into a small firestorm after someone posted that “after 117 years, Ben’s bread is no more.” While it is true that Ben’s Bakery was a Halifax ...

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Sunny and cool temperatures on Monday made for good conditions to get some outside work started and/or completed. Outside of the T.J. Tracey Cremation and Burial Specialists location in Sydney Clayton Murphy was spotted pushing stone off of the paved parking lot and removing stones from the grass nearby. Murphy's main job is as funeral director at the home but was doing a pretty good job on the raking. Across the municipality there were countless work crews and home owners spotted also catching up on their yardwork.

PHOTO: Raking weather in Cape Breton

Sunny and cool temperatures on Monday made for good conditions to get some outside work started and/or completed. utside of the T.J. Tracey Cremation and Burial Specialists location in Sydney Clayton Murphy was spotted pushing stone off of the paved ...

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YVONNE KENNEDY: Volunteer firefighters integral part of rural communities

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Members of the Port Morien Volunteer Fire Department. In the front row from left are James Bates, Remington Strongman, Katie Cameron, Justin Gilliam, Donna Martell, Jacob Egan, Jared Peach and Allan Cameron. In the back row from left are Harvey Butts, Lisa Boutilier, Brandon Bates, Michael Kelloway, Tayor Gilliam, Stewart MacPherson, David Murrant, Robbie Byrne, Donald Clements, Jonathan Eveleigh, Jarrett Byrne and Mavis Wadden. CONTRIBUTED/JAMES BATES

'I do not feel that the services are up to snuff': Long-term solutions needed as number of people in N.L. seeking help for mental health rises

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Kelsey Puddister of the Jacob Puddister Memorial Foundation which is named after her brother who died by suicide.

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Sports

Malcolm Christie throws down a dunk for the Dalhousie Tigers during an AUS men's basketball game against the Memorial Sea-Hawks. - Dalhousie Athletics

BASKETBALL: AUS MVP Malcolm Christie leaves Dalhousie for NCAA's Oakland University

The AUS men's basketball MVP is taking his talents South of the border. Dalhousie Tigers star Malcolm Christie announced his official commitment on Sunday to play NCAA Division 1 for Oakland University next season. Malcolm Christie of @DalTigers has ...

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Thunderbirds' season ends with a thud: Halifax loses 9-3 in NLL quarter-final at Albany

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Albany goaltender Doug Jamieson turned aside 52 Halifax shots for his first career playoff victory as the FireWolves upended the Thunderbirds 9-3 Sunday in the single elimination quarter-final. - NATIONAL LACROSSE LEAGUE

‘Everyone’s feeling the urgency’: Wanderers lose home opener to Ottawa, fall to 0-3 to start CPL season

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Atlético Ottawa midfielder Manuel Aparicio and HFX Wanderers midfielder Jérémy Gagnon-Laparé leap for the ball during Saturday's Canadian Premier League match at the Wanderers Grounds on April 27, 2024. Ottawa won the match 3-1.
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Sisters Laura Ross (from right) and Dorothy Penney were the grill masters for the free barbecue at the Barrington Care and Recovery Centre on April 23. Barrington Municipal Warden Eddie Nickerson stands nearby, enjoying a cheeseburger. Kathy Johnson

Barrington Care & Recovery Centre celebrates extended lease after lobbying effort

A successful lobby effort by the Shelburne County Youth Health and Support Association to secure a two-year lease with the Municipality of Barrington in the former visitor information centre (VIC) building was celebrated with an open house, free ...

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Applications for the We Rise Again Fund–Shelburne County are open

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A Department of Natural Resources and Renewables helicopter releases water over a wildfire burning out of control in the Barrington/Clyde River region of Shelburne County on Sunday, May 28, 2023. FRANKIE CROWELL PHOTO

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P.E.I. pharmacists at 48 Island pharmacies can now assess some simple ailments and renew eligible prescriptions. -Contributed

P.E.I. pharmacists' UTI treatment expanded to patients under 19

Islanders under 19 can now get treatment for uncomplicated urinary tract infections from their local pharmacist. Following the advice of the P.E.I. College of Pharmacy, the province has lifted the 19-plus age restriction, allowing pharmacists across ...

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A group of protesters hold yellow flags with the word Khalistan, as well as a banner with the picture of Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh, during a protest outside India's consulate, a week after Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau raised the prospect of New Delhi's involvement in the murder of Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar in British Columbia, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada September 25, 2023.

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Applications for the We Rise Again Fund–Shelburne County are open

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Canada

P.E.I. pharmacists' UTI treatment expanded to patients under 19

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Warning in every puff: Canadian cigarettes now required to have health risk printed on each butt

Explainer-With oil set to flow, what next for Canada's Trans Mountain pipeline expansion?

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