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HALIFAX — Two Halifax universities are sharing a Mi'kmaq "auntie-in-residence" who is assisting Indigenous students to navigate campus life.

HALIFAX — The organization that represents almost 20,000 RCMP members submitted Wednesday a long list of recommendations to the inquiry investigating the April 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia, saying the province must do something about chronic und

HALIFAX — Senior officials with Nova Scotia's Health Department were unable to answer a number of questions on Wednesday about the state of the province’s emergency health system, which is struggling with overcrowding and staffing shortages.

OTTAWA — The federal agency overseeing Canada's national parks says that $40 million in damage from two earlier Atlantic Canada storms far eclipsed costs incurred due to post-tropical storm Fiona.

HALIFAX — International students who have travelled across the globe to study in Nova Scotia say their Canadian university experience is suffering because most of their classes are taking place at a movie theatre far from campus.

CHARLOTTETOWN — One year after racial slurs were uttered at a hockey tournament in Charlottetown, Hockey PEI is again stickhandling tough questions after a wild brawl broke out Saturday at the same annual tournament.

Halifax city council has voted in favour of a pilot project to create a "sobering centre" as an alternative to police lockups, more than six years after the death in detention of a heavily intoxicated man.

HALIFAX — NSCAD University, Canada's oldest degree-granting art school, announced Tuesday that it has signed an agreement with the Halifax Port Authority to bring together all three of its downtown campuses at a site in the Halifax Seaport.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — The Canadian Red Cross has distributed most of the millions raised to help those affected by post-tropical storm Fiona, and almost all of the money has gone to Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.

CHARLOTTETOWN — Potato farmers in Prince Edward Island are feeling the impact of lost customers one year after a four-month ban of table potato shipments to the United States began. Canada stopped sending the Island's best-known export to the U.S.