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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 out, 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 ...

Updated 11 minutes ago |5 min read

Third adult faces accessory charge in Halifax mall parkade homicide

Updated a day ago |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

Updated 1 hour ago |4 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

Man chooses jury trial on Dartmouth manslaughter charge

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

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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

Updated Nov. 4, 2024 |8 min read

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

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

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

The earth shook in the hockey world on Thursday after the NCAA announced rule changes that significantly alter the landscape in university and junior hockey leagues across North America. The Division 1 Council in the United States approved a ...

Updated Nov. 7, 2024 |3 min read

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

Updated Nov. 7, 2024 |5 min read

Stellarton's Owen Conrad is one of the top 10 prospects from the QMJHL for the 2025 NHL draft. - QMJHL

Nathan MacKinnon somehow finding new ways to level up

Updated Nov. 6, 2024 |3 min read

Nathan MacKinnon in action with the Colorado Avalanche. - Postmedia

Wanderers head coach Patrice Gheisar to join Team Canada staff for pre-CONCACAF camp

Updated Nov. 6, 2024 |2 min read

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

Updated Nov. 5, 2024 |4 min read

Noah Latimer Foundation to continue legacy of fallen Bearcat

Updated Nov. 5, 2024 |4 min read

Communities

The 2021 Gateway girls baseball team and became the first U12 provincial champions in the first-ever girls' Bluenose Baseball League. CONTRIBUTED

New inductees in the Yarmouth Sport Hall of Fame

From teams to individual athletes, the Yarmouth County Town and County Sports Heritage Hall of Fame has five new members. The new inductees into the hall of fame include: The Gateway girls baseball team and 2021 U12 provincial champions. World ...

Updated Nov. 7, 2024 |6 min read

West Hants deputy mayor selected after multiple tied votes

Updated a day ago |3 min read

West Hants Mayor Abraham Zebian congratulated Coun. Debbie Francis on becoming the regional municipality’s deputy mayor Nov. 5.

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

Updated a day ago |8 min read

Nicole Albright holds her hands on her chain of office after being chosen by Argyle council to serve as warden of the Municipality of Argyle. She becomes the first woman to hold this position. TINA COMEAU

Plaque honouring Pictou WWI battalion unveiled in Toronto

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Roots of Empathy expanding in Northern Nova Scotia

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New calendar celebrates Truro milestone

Updated a day ago |5 min read

Provincial

West Hants deputy mayor selected after multiple tied votes

The first task of West Hants’ newly sworn in council was to select its deputy mayor and the group of 12 was deadlocked. Councillors voted four times by secret ballot on Nov. 5, with each one ending in a tie between returning councillors Debbie ...

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Cape Breton woman to be sentenced for friend’s murder next month

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Photos of Stephen Rose Jr. sit on a table along with an abalone shelled filled sage and a satchel containing his father Stephen Rose Sr. outside Nova Scotia Supreme Court in Sydney on Friday. It was the final day of the sentencing hearing for Jessica Anne MacDonald, one of two people involved in the brutal killing of Stephen Rose Jr. on Nov. 5, 2019. MacDonald is scheduled to be sentenced Dec. 20 while her co-accused Joseph Frederick Evong’s sentencing is set for Dec. 11-13. Chris Connors/Cape Breton Post

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

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'Urgent action' needed with almost 900 homeless, Cape Breton conference hears

Updated a day ago |9 min read

Plaque honouring Pictou WWI battalion unveiled in Toronto

Updated a day ago |4 min read

Roots of Empathy expanding in Northern Nova Scotia

Updated a day ago |6 min read

Canada

Three-year-old Eliyana Fournier was excited to pet Trip, a golden retriever. Trip's owner was one of many vendors at the Maritime reptile and pet expo. Vivian Ulinwa/The Guardian

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

More than a dozen vendors and visitors attended the Maritime Reptile and Pet Expo in Stratford Nov. 2, showcasing a diverse range of pet supplies, services, food, art, jewelry and animals from P.E.I., Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick. Two-year-old ...

Updated a day ago |4 min read

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

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Two people were sent to hospital following an apparent electrocution from a downed power line in Torbay Saturday night. Keith Gosse/The Telegram

Kings County man and woman arrested after drugs seized in Montague

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RCMP Cpl. Gavin Moore said a male that was a victim in the Alan Wood case, has died of his injuries. - File photo

Labour minister says more consultation needed after N.L. pay equity report published

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P.E.I. Liberals, Greens raise ‘non-disparagement’ clause in health CEO’s contract

Updated a day ago |5 min read

Chris Carter's sentencing in St. John's court on sexual violence charges delayed

Updated a day ago |2 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

Updated Oct. 29, 2024 |3 min read

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

Updated Oct. 16, 2024 |5 min read

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

Updated Oct. 17, 2024 |3 min read

The New York Times

Hurricane Milton kills at least 11, many far from landfall

Updated Oct. 11, 2024 |9 min read

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West Hants deputy mayor selected after multiple tied votes

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

Plaque honouring Pictou WWI battalion unveiled in Toronto

Roots of Empathy expanding in Northern Nova Scotia

New calendar celebrates Truro milestone

Provincial

West Hants deputy mayor selected after multiple tied votes

Cape Breton woman to be sentenced for friend’s murder next month

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

'Urgent action' needed with almost 900 homeless, Cape Breton conference hears

Plaque honouring Pictou WWI battalion unveiled in Toronto

Roots of Empathy expanding in Northern Nova Scotia

Canada

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

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

Kings County man and woman arrested after drugs seized in Montague

Labour minister says more consultation needed after N.L. pay equity report published

P.E.I. Liberals, Greens raise ‘non-disparagement’ clause in health CEO’s contract

Chris Carter's sentencing in St. John's court on sexual violence charges delayed

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