Category Archives: News
Job Numbers Continue Rebound In Atlantic Canada
Canada's overall job market improved in February and Atlantic Canada continued to see modest employment gains in three provinces, according to Statistics Canada. Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia...
Tyler McLean Mar 11, 2022
Ukrainian Living In N.S. Returns Home To Help Family, Refugees
A Ukrainian man who now resides in Nova Scotia is going back to his country today. Lex Brukovskiy, a lobster fishing captain who lives in Meteghan arrived in Poland near the border with Ukraine yester...
Kevin Northup Mar 11, 2022
Canadians to hear directly from Ukrainian president on Russia's attack
The Ukrainian President will address Canada's Parliament next week. Volodymyr Zelensky is set to appear virtually at 11:15 a.m. on Tuesday, speaking to members of the House of Commons and Senate. Gove...
Skye Bryden-Blom Mar 11, 2022
Warnings Could Be Issued Today As Rain And Wind Storm Approaches N.S.
A Special Weather Statement remains in effect for Nova Scotia. Environment Canada says the Atlantic coast could see 50 millimetres of rain tomorrow, with 100 kilometre an hour wind gusts. The storm is...
Kevin Northup Mar 11, 2022
Unvaccinated civil servants return to work March 21
The province has confirmed civil servants who refused to get the COVID-19 vaccine, or disclose their vaccine status, will be allowed to return to work on March 21. That coincides with the beginning of...
B. Jack Morse Mar 10, 2022
Trudeau Announces More Humanitarian Aid For Ukraine
Canada is increasing its monetary commitment to humanitarian aid for Ukraine. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is doing a tour of eastern Europe and made a stop in Poland on Thursday. He says they will b...
Tim Davidson Mar 10, 2022
McCain Foods Discontinues Plans For Russia Plant
McCain Foods has put the kibosh on its potato processing facility under construction in central Russia. It comes two weeks after the company stopped work on the facility on Feb. 24 - the same day Russ...
Brad Perry Mar 10, 2022
Correctional Officers Reprimanded Over Covered Badge Protest
More than two dozen federal correctional officers in Atlantic Canada are being reprimanded by their employer for staging a silent protest over a "toxic workplace," according to the Union of Canadian C...
Derek Montague Mar 10, 2022
Irving Sells Shelburne Ship Repair To Liverpool’s Mersey Seafoods
Shelburne Ship Repair has been sold. Irving Shipbuilding made the deal with Liverpool-based Mersey Seafoods for an undisclosed amount. Irving has owned the business since 2011, and had leased the faci...
Kevin Northup Mar 10, 2022
Another Failed Ceasefire; Air Strikes Hit Hospital
What was supposed to be another day of ceasefire, instead was a hospital was bombed in Ukraine. A maternity and children’s hospital in Mariupol was hit several times by an air strike. Reports so...
Katie Nicholls Mar 10, 2022
