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The Nova Scotia New Democratic Party announced Saturday that Tammy Jakeman is no longer its candidate in Eastern Passage for the upcoming provincial election. Two Jewish organizations released a joint statement Friday saying comments about Israel and the Holocaust that were posted on Jakeman's X account in 2023 were "inflammatory and hurtful."

NDP candidate in Eastern Passage resigns after Jewish groups condemn posts about Israel

Tammy Jakeman is no longer the NDP candidate in Eastern Passage for the Nov. 26 provincial election after a pair of Jewish organization said comments she posted online last year about Israel and the Holocaust were "deeply troubling." The Centre of ...

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Third adult faces accessory charge in Halifax mall parkade homicide

Updated Nov. 8, 2024 |3 min read

Officers with the Halifax regional police forensics unit, begin to process the scene inside a parkade at the Halifax Shopping Centre in Halifax Monday April 22, 2024.

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Accused told by N.S. judge to 'move things along' after latest adjournment in sexual assault cases

Updated Nov. 8, 2024 |2 min read

The exterior of the Kentville Law Courts building is shown in this September 17, 2017 photo.

Early voting hours in Nova Scotia altered for Remembrance Day ceremonies

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AI leads the way to the future for a N.S. business that deals with the past

Updated Nov. 7, 2024 |5 min read

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Updated Nov. 7, 2024 |2 min read

Opinion

David Redmond, left, and David Gallant, work to secure the Wellington Legion’s new temporary poppy display to the building. Colin MacLean • Journal Pioneer

VOICE OF THE PEOPLE: The sacrifices of the Royal Canadian Navy

As Remembrance Day approaches, it’s worth noting that Oct. 5 marked the 20th anniversary of the fire on His Majesty’s Canadian ship (HMCS) Chicoutimi, which left 59 submariners stranded in the choppy waters of the Atlantic Ocean. The thought of being ...

Updated Nov. 8, 2024 |4 min read

BRUCE MacKINNON CARTOON: Supporting our troops

Updated Nov. 8, 2024 |1 min read

Tease for Bruce MacKinnon's editorial cartoon for Nov. 9, 2024.

COMMENTARY: Winners and losers as Trump prepares to take power

Updated Nov. 7, 2024 |5 min read

Former President Donald Trump during the final night at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, on July 17, 2024. A comparison of Trump's addresses before the Republican National Convention in 2016 and 2024 demonstrates how his relationship to the truth has changed. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)

VOICE OF THE PEOPLE: Chaos to come in the U.S.

Updated Nov. 7, 2024 |3 min read

BRUCE MacKINNON CARTOON: Drowning out the noise

Updated Nov. 7, 2024 |1 min read

JOHN DeMONT: Aboard Chender's distinctive NDP campaign to be helpful in the world

Updated Nov. 8, 2024 |8 min read

Business

A tree is full of apples Sept. 4 at Dempsey Corner Orchard in Aylesford.

N.S. apple growers concerned by Trump talk of tariffs

Among those who have concerns over Donald Trump’s win in the U.S. presidential election are Nova Scotia apple growers. During his campaign, Trump talked of imposing a 10 per cent tariff on all foreign products entering the United States. “They are ...

Updated Nov. 8, 2024 |3 min read

Home builders could face drywall shortage

Updated Nov. 8, 2024 |3 min read

AI leads the way to the future for a N.S. business that deals with the past

Updated Nov. 7, 2024 |5 min read

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Heritage Memorials workers prepare to remove a stone for a customer, in the worl yard in Windsor November 5, 2024.

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Canada's job gains weaker than expected, but unemployment rate holds steady

Updated Nov. 8, 2024 |2 min read

SYLVAIN CHARLEBOIS: What a Trump 2.0 presidency could mean for Canada’s agri-food sector

Updated Nov. 6, 2024 |3 min read

Halifax steel company hopes to speed up construction of apartment buildings

Updated Nov. 4, 2024 |4 min read

Lifestyles

Learning the seed heads of perennial plants over winter is an easy way to feed the birds.

GET GROWING: A hands-off approach to garden clean-up

We’ve had some very frosty mornings, but the garden continues to surprise me with the odd calendula or sweet pea bloom. For the most part, however, the growing season has drawn to a close and it’s time to tidy up. Once upon a time, autumn cleanup ...

Updated Nov. 7, 2024 |5 min read

Alan Doyle to perform in Halifax in March

Updated Nov. 6, 2024 |1 min read

Much-loved East Coast singer-songwriter Alan Doyle has just released “Welcome Home,” his fourth solo album. The album features co-writes with Donovan Woods, Jimmy Ranker and Oscar Isaac. Contributed

Nova Scotia Music Week: Spotlight on Eskasoni singer Christina Googoo and Mi’kmaq rapper Gearl

Updated Nov. 5, 2024 |6 min read

Gearl Francis, known as Gearl, is a 32-year-old rapper from Eskasoni First Nation. He will be performing on opening night (Nov. 9) at 7:45 p.m. at Devour! Studios, Wolfville. CONTRIBUTED.

ATLANTIC SKIES: The obsession over stellar magnitudes

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Meet the musicians: Cape Breton musicians on the lineup for Nova Scotia Music Week

Updated Nov. 5, 2024 |7 min read

LEO J. DEVEAU: This month in Nova Scotia history: November

Updated Oct. 31, 2024 |8 min read

Sports

Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League commissioner Mario Cecchini. - QMJHL

QMJHL commissioner Mario Cecchini discusses impact of NCAA changes, possible expansion to U.S., Newfoundland

The recent NCAA rule changes reverberated across the hockey world late last week but Mario Cecchini seems to be embracing it all. The QMJHL commissioner spoke at length about how the new wide open eligibility landscape in American college hockey ...

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PHOTO: 2024 Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame inductees

Updated 3 hours ago |1 min read

The 2024 inductees of the Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame - Dr. Christina Atkinson, Jamie Bone, Danny Flynn, Kirk Johnson, Dwayne Provo, Leslie-Anne Young and the 1990 Acadia Axewomen soccer team - were honoured during a ceremony at the Light House Arts Centre in Halifax on Saturday night. Pictured are: (back row, left to right) 1990 Acadia soccer team members Kim Hill, Laura Sanders, Janice Cossar, Susie Simon, Alison Tuton, Denise Payne, Claire Sarginson, Nancy Howell; (middle row, left to right) 1990 Acadia soccer team members Amber MacDonald, Heidi Stanish, Cindy Tye, Marjean Leighton, Bridget Anakin, Kyran Pinfold, Dara Moore, Sheri Cunningham, Kim MacQuarrie, Cathy McAuley, June Saunders; (front row, left to right) 1990 Acadia soccer team member Wendi Wells, Jamie Bone, Danny Flynn, Leslie-Anne Young, Dr. Christina Atkinson, Kirk Johnson, Dwayne Provo.

Rule change will now allow major junior players to play in the NCAA, hockey landscape altered immeasurably

Updated Nov. 7, 2024 |3 min read

Halifax Mooseheads forward Alec Nasreddine is one of the few Americans playing in the QMJHL this season. - QMJHL

Nova Scotia's Owen Conrad, Mooseheads' Liam Kilfoil among QMJHL's top 10 NHL draft prospects

Updated Nov. 7, 2024 |5 min read

Nathan MacKinnon somehow finding new ways to level up

Updated Nov. 6, 2024 |3 min read

Mooseheads' Mathis Rousseau making more miracles: 'He's pretty special'

Updated Nov. 5, 2024 |4 min read

Communities

Pictou County RCMP is investigating after a man died following a swimming incident at Melmerby Beach on Sept. 10. File

Pictou County RCMP say human remains found in burned vehicle in Greenhill, suspicious

GREENHILL - Pictou County RCMP are reporting the discovery of human remains inside a burned vehicle in Greenhill, Pictou County. On Nov. 9 around 2:10 p.m., RCMP responded to reports of an abandoned vehicle that had been burned on MacLean Road.

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Walking in their footsteps: N.S. delegation honours Indigenous service members and veterans

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Canadian soldiers somehow managed to fight while they struggled through the mud of Passchendaele. (credit: LAC)

'We will remember them': Students join Wedgeport Legion in placing Canadian flags at graves of veterans

Updated 9 hours ago |6 min read

Student Noah Cottreau places a Canadian flag at the grave of a veteran at the Wedgeport cemetery. TINA COMEAU

New inductees in the Yarmouth Sport Hall of Fame

Updated Nov. 7, 2024 |6 min read

West Hants deputy mayor selected after multiple tied votes

Updated Nov. 8, 2024 |3 min read

'You’ve closed the gender gap': First female warden chosen for Municipality of Argyle

Updated Nov. 8, 2024 |8 min read

Provincial

The Remembrance Day parade arrives at the Antigonish Cenotaph on Monday.

Antigonish Cenotaph Project researches what was given

In Monday’s cold November rain, thousands of Nova Scotians gathered around cenotaphs in the hearts of this province’s communities. With bowed heads they shared minutes of silence before names carved in stone. In Antigonish, William Landry was one of ...

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IN PHOTOS: Port Hawkesbury holds Remembrance Day ceremony

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The Port Hawkesbury Remembrance Day ceremony opened with the 719 Stora Royal Canadian Air Cadet Squadron entering and lining up. Several of the air cadets assisted community members and businesses with the placing of memorial wreaths. Meghan Dewar/Cape Breton Post

IN PHOTOS: Remembrance Day in Sydney

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The Closing Ritual of Sydney’s Remembrance Day ceremony at Centre 200. Contributed/ Jakob Postlewaite

Rosemary Godin: Florence woman steps up for the children

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Walking in their footsteps: N.S. delegation honours Indigenous service members and veterans

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West Hants deputy mayor selected after multiple tied votes

Updated Nov. 8, 2024 |3 min read

Canada

Pictou County RCMP say human remains found in burned vehicle in Greenhill, suspicious

GREENHILL - Pictou County RCMP are reporting the discovery of human remains inside a burned vehicle in Greenhill, Pictou County. On Nov. 9 around 2:10 p.m., RCMP responded to reports of an abandoned vehicle that had been burned on MacLean Road.

Updated 1 hour ago |1 min read

IN PHOTOS: Remembrance Day in P.E.I. on Nov. 11, 2024

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An RCMP officer and a soldier stand guard at the cenotaph in Charlottetown during the city’s Remembrance Day ceremony on Nov. 11. Despite heavy rain throughout the morning, hundreds of people still attended the service. Yutaro Sasaki • Local Journalism Initiative

Charlottetown artist starts movement to promote better pay

Updated Nov. 8, 2024 |5 min read

Bridget Driver says being in The Collective has inspired her to grow her skills at her studio in Charlottetown and that it feels rewarding for her to be part of a group where transparency and equality are valued. Blaine Auld • Special to The Guardian

Woman rescued from submerged car after it plunges into pond in St. John's Sunday night

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IN PHOTOS: Maritime pet and reptile expo brings together animal lovers

Updated Nov. 8, 2024 |4 min read

UPDATE: One man dead, two women sent to hospital following electrocution by downed power line in Torbay Saturday night

Updated a day ago |4 min read

World

Former President Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, walks off stage with Melania Trump during an election night event in West Palm Beach, Fla., Nov. 6, 2024. Viktor Orban of Hungary and other right-wing European politicians hail the return of a U.S. president who shares their tough views on issues like immigration. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)

What a second Trump term could mean for Americans' money

President-elect Donald Trump made a number of personal finance promises during his presidential campaign. How many will he try to -- and be able to -- keep? The answer will depend in part on the outcome of races in the House of Representatives and ...

Updated Nov. 8, 2024 |8 min read

The New York Times

Donald Trump returns to power in U.S., ushering in new era of uncertainty

Updated Nov. 6, 2024 |10 min read

Former President Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, walks off stage with Melania Trump during an election night event at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Fla., on Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)

Taliban bars Afghan women from hearing each other's voices in new edict

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Sum 41’s Deryck Whibley slams Greig Nori's denial of sexual abuse claims: 'I'm not a liar'

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Driver charged in Gaudreau crash hit the road after upsetting call with his mother: prosecution

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Hurricane Milton kills at least 11, many far from landfall

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Walking in their footsteps: N.S. delegation honours Indigenous service members and veterans

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New inductees in the Yarmouth Sport Hall of Fame

West Hants deputy mayor selected after multiple tied votes

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Provincial

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West Hants deputy mayor selected after multiple tied votes

Canada

Pictou County RCMP say human remains found in burned vehicle in Greenhill, suspicious

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Charlottetown artist starts movement to promote better pay

Woman rescued from submerged car after it plunges into pond in St. John's Sunday night

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