By Staff The Canadian Press Posted December 10, 2024 3:52 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size The Assembly of First Nations says the ongoing postal strike is delaying supplies of medicine and other necessities to rural and remote communities. National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak is calling on Canada Post…
Swimmer Summer McIntosh has won the Northern Star Award as Canada’s athlete of the year after a dominant performance at the 2024 Paris Olympics. The 18-year-old from Toronto won three gold medals in Paris, becoming the first Canadian athlete to accomplish that feat at an Olympic Games, summer or winter. She set Olympic records in…
It’s an organization that relies heavily on volunteer mentors to keep programs afloat, but with hundreds of kids currently on the waitlist, they are searching for more mentors. Source link
Standing by a bullet hole in his dining room wall, lobster buyer Geoffrey Jobert says such attacks have become an all-too-familiar reality in Nova Scotia’s largest fishery. Overnight on Nov. 23, someone fired a single shot that passed through three rooms in his Mavillette, N.S., home, with the shell ending its journey in a rocking…
After 149 shows, an estimated US$2 billion in revenue and countless outfit changes, Taylor Swift takes to the stage tonight in Vancouver for the final show of her record-smashing Eras Tour. It’s the superstar’s third sold-out night at BC Place, where she has received a delirious welcome from Swifties both local and international. Celebrities have…
Canada’s spy agency says it will disclose “some information” about foreign interference to Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, who has resisted getting the national security clearance he needs to review classified documents about the issue because it would muzzle him. The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) told CBC News on Saturday that it’s determined “the disclosure…
By The Staff The Canadian Press Posted December 7, 2024 3:35 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Statistics Canada says investors represented three in 10 residential property buyers in Nova Scotia between 2018 and 2020 — the highest volume of such buyers among provinces where data is available. The…
A report from Canada’s auditor general says the federal department that delivers Old Age Security (OAS) and other programs to assist seniors “did not have a comprehensive view” of the needs of Canada’s elderly and doesn’t know if the monthly payments are providing seniors with enough financial support. The report found Employment and Social Development Canada…
Commercial elver fishers in the Maritimes are dismissing new quotas for the 2025 season, saying they would significantly cut their share of the lucrative baby eel fishery. In a letter obtained by The Canadian Press, the federal Fisheries Department said Thursday it wants to hand 50 per cent of the total allowable catch — 4,980…
A Saskatchewan man who abducted his daughter to prevent her from getting the COVID-19 vaccine was sentenced Friday morning at Court of King’s Bench in Regina. Justice MacMillan-Brown gave Michael Jackson, 55, a one-year jail sentence, which he has already more than served while his case was before the courts, 200 days of probation and…
