12+ hour, 44+ min ago  (1466+ words) Travis Sheppard says his clinic is a victim of the NL government's pilot funding model for nurse practitioners, but isn't giving up Travis Sheppard has been providing primary health care through his Nurse Practitioner Health and Wellness Clinic in Corner…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago  (954+ words) Lantz says he does not want to micromanage government departments P.E.I. Premier Rob Lantz has shelved the practice of issuing individual mandate letters to each of his ministers. Instead, Lantz has issued a single mandate letter that outlines the five priority…...

1+ week, 7+ hour ago  (1014+ words) The Nova Scotia Court of Appeal has upheld a March 2024 decision that declared Brian James (B.J.) Marriott a dangerous offender and locked him up indefinitely. The Crown sought the dangerous-offender designation and indeterminate sentence for Marriott, a member of a notorious…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (553+ words) They allow the province to spend beyond the budget. The auditor general and MLAs say their growing use could be cause for concern. Additional appropriations are a legal mechanism that allows the government to spend more than what was approved…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (521+ words) Program will work with largest Muslim charity in Atlantic Canada "The youth are not the problem, they are the promise." "What powerful words," said Halifax MP Shannon Miedema, taking to the podium afterwards. But Yousri and the Ummah Society, which…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (132+ words) A Cape Breton man who illegally fished for snow crab has been fined. Russell Joseph Christmas Jr., 53, of Membertou, was fishing under an Aboriginal Communal Fishing Licence near Glace Bay on July 21, 2025, when he was charged with failing to provide…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (235+ words) Cape Breton is under a yellow level snowfall warning for this week's storm. Expected to hit Cape Breton tonight, Environment Canada is forecasting the winter storm could bring almost 20 centimetres of snow and winds gusting to 50 kilometers / hour until about…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (173+ words) Workers at a Cape Breton nursing home have voted overwhelmingly in favour to go on strike. Late last week, Alderwood Rest Home employees who are members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 1635 voted 99 per cent in favour of…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (757+ words) The review of the Municipal Government Act is long overdue. Unfortunately, successive leadership failures have stalled progress. Interim leadership under former premier Lantz failed to hold Minister Myers accountable, and the current minister of housing, land and communities, Cory Deagle,…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (517+ words) As workers from one more Cape Breton seniors" care residence vote to strike, Canadian Union of Public Employees" (CUPE) long-term care members are organizing a rally at the Canso Causeway on Wednesday from noon to 2 p.m. The gathering is being held…...