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Registered occupational therapist Chelsea Surette (left) and registered physiotherapist Maria Wamback are co-owners of the newly opened Acadian Shores Health Centre. TINA COMEAU

'Community helped make this happen': Acadian Shores Health Centre looking to give back through its services

A new health centre in Yarmouth is feeling its community roots. Not only does it feel like it was helped along by the community in starting up and offering the services it does, but it also hopes to become involved in the community. “We are very ...

Updated Mar. 26, 2024 |6 min read

Tories pushing Antigonish consolidation through with amendments

Updated Mar. 25, 2024 |2 min read

Housing Minister John Lohr announces a five-year housing plan at One Government Place in Halifax on Monday, Oct. 23, 2023. - Francis Campbell

Two people charged with drug and weapons offences in Stellarton, N.S.

Updated Mar. 25, 2024 |2 min read

RCMP have laid a third charge in connection to the homicide of Natacha Leroy. CONTRIBUTED

No tax rate increase for Colchester County residents and business owners in 2024/25 budget

Updated 15 minutes ago |3 min read

Colchester Community Support Society to improve food literacy, community programs with provincial funding

Updated 19 minutes ago |2 min read

Dartmouth bodybuilder represents Nova Scotia in reality TV show

Updated 25 minutes ago |6 min read

Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir speaks at a convention calling for Israel to rebuild settlements in the Gaza Strip and the northern part of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, in Jerusalem, January 28, 2024.

Israeli minister Ben-Gvir slightly hurt in car accident

Reuters |Updated just now |1 min read

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's hardline security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir was slightly hurt in a car accident and taken to hospital on Friday, police said, adding that they were investigating the circumstances. Video aired on Israeli media showed ...

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a joint statement to the media in Baghdad, Iraq April 22, 2024. AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/Pool via

Turkey's Erdogan postpones tentative White House visit, sources say

Reuters |Updated 2 minutes ago |2 min read

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan postponed a White House meeting with President Joe Biden, a source familiar with the situation and a Turkish official said on Friday of a visit that had been tentatively planned for May 9. A ...

Pictures of U.S. President Joe Biden and Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump are seen on a screen during a campaign rally for Trump in Green Bay, Wisconsin, U.S., April 2, 2024.

Biden says he plans to debate Trump

Reuters |Updated 14 minutes ago |1 min read

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden said on Friday that he would participate in a debate with Donald Trump, his Republican opponent in November's election. "I don't know when," Biden said in an interview with broadcaster Howard Stern in ...

The discovery of human remains in Happy Valley-Goose Bay on Jan. 14 has led to an investigation by the RCMP.

Happy Valley-Goose Bay man charged with child luring

Atlantic Briefs Desk |Updated 29 minutes ago |1 min read

A child luring investigation led Happy Valley-Goose Bay RCMP to arrest and charge a 22-year-old man on Thursday, April 25. Mounties executed a search warrant in the Labrador town, during which they seized several items, including electronics, which ...

The Aberdeen Hospital in New Glasgow is the regional hospital for the northern zone. In 2023, Aberdeen had 22 emergency visits due to overdoses, the Colchester-East Hants Health Centre had 72 and the Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre had 56. According to Dr. Janet Sommers, the number of hospitalizations due to drug overdoses hasn't changed dramatically, but the drugs being used has changed.

‘All parts of society are affected by addiction’: Types of drugs being used biggest change in overdose hospitalizations in Northern Zone

Angela Capobianco · Multimedia Journalist |Updated 30 minutes ago |8 min read

Despite perceptions, there hasn’t been a significant reported increase in hospitalizations due to drug usage within the Northern Zone of Nova Scotia. The biggest change seen over the years is the types of drugs being used, said Dr. Janet Sommers, an ...

Former ANC President Thabo Mbeki looks on during an election campaign trial, as South Africa prepares for national and provincial elections to be held on May 29, in Soweto, South Africa, April 25, 2024.

Support for South Africa's ANC near 40% weeks before election, Ipsos poll shows

Bhargav Acharya |Updated 32 minutes ago |2 min read

By Bhargav Acharya JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Support for South Africa's governing African National Congress (ANC) has fallen to just over 40%, an Ipsos opinion poll showed, weeks before a general election that could usher in the biggest political ...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken talks with Yuxuan Zhou during a visit to Li-Pi record store in Beijing, China, April 26, 2024. Mark Schiefelbein/Pool via REUTERS

Bad blood with China? Blinken buys Taylor Swift album in Beijing

Reuters |Updated 32 minutes ago |1 min read

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken snapped up a Taylor Swift album along with one by classic Chinese rocker Dou Wei during an unexpected detour to a Beijing record store on Friday after talks in China meant to ease ...

This is the construction site of a new UPEI building that will serve as the home of the UPEI faculty of medicine, as well as a UPEI-based medical home. An internal memo from former Health P.E.I. CEO Michael Gardam says UPEI suggested faculty and families be preferentially taken off P.E.I.’s patient registry after the new medical home is established. Stu Neatby • The Guardian

UPEI launches 'fund- and friend-raising' initiative for new medical school facility

Atlantic Briefs Desk |Updated 37 minutes ago |3 min read

With work on UPEI’s home for its new faculty of medicine well underway on the north end of the Charlottetown campus, the school has formally launched its $10 million “fund- and friend-raising” campaign. To date, the school has raised $1 million of ...

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks at a conference held by the North America's Building Trades Unions at the Washington Hilton in Washington, U.S., April 24, 2024.

Biden appears in live interview with Howard Stern

Reuters |Updated 44 minutes ago |1 min read

NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Joe Biden appeared on a live radio broadcast with interviewer Howard Stern on Friday, telling family stories and saying his stutter prepared him for the hard knocks of life. Biden said the stutter that he has had ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz welcomes Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, April 26, 2024.

Azerbaijan's Aliyev rejects criticism over journalists' arrests

Rachel More |Updated 1 hour ago |2 min read

By Rachel More BERLIN (Reuters) - Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev on Friday rejected criticism over the arrests of journalists and said the fact that people had access to the internet meant press freedom was assured. "We must protect our ...