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Union organizer Tina Oh speaks to a rally outside the Java Blend on North Street on Sunday.

Union calls for Java Blend boycott, alleges union busting

Aaron Beswick · Reporter |Updated 2 hours ago |3 min read Premium content

Terminated Java Blend employees, union organizers and supportive citizens rallied in front of the North Street coffee shop in Halifax on Sunday. They called for a boycott of all Java Blend’s coffee shops, Java Blend Wholesale, the Cortado Tasting ...

A 34-year-old man from Waycobah, N.S. is facing armed robbery-related charges following an incident on April 26.

RCMP arrest We'koqma'q, N.S. armed robbery suspect

Atlantic Briefs Desk |Updated 4 hours ago |2 min read Premium content

A 34-year-old man from We'koqma'q, N.S. is facing armed robbery-related charges following an incident on April 26.  Around 9 p.m., Mounties received word of a robbery in progress at a Shore Road business.  Officers arrived within two minutes, where ...

This brown pelican appears to have just recently departed Cheticamp after nearly a two-week stay in the Cape Breton fishing community.

N.S. photographer documents 'remarkable' visit from exotic brown pelican

Andrew Rankin · Multimedia Journalist |Updated 5 hours ago |4 min read Premium content

He turned in the bottle for a camera. Michel Soucy’s been sober for 40 years. Photography is his addiction now. “I often tell folks I don’t drink, I don’t smoke, I don’t gamble, I don’t hang out in taverns; so this is my vice,” said Soucy in a phone ...

A 26-year-old man is facing drug trafficking charges after he fled from police but was eventually caught on Sunday night outside Halifax.

N.S. RCMP charge 32-year-old man with impaired driving, seize 1.5 kilograms of elvers

Atlantic Briefs Desk |Updated a day ago |2 min read Premium content

Mounties in Nova Scotia have charged a 32-year-old man who allegedly passed out at the wheel with drugs in Concession on Thursday, April 25. Just before 7 a.m., Meteghan RCMP and emergency crews responded to a report of a driver found unconscious ...

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Chronicle Herald cartoonist Bruce MacKinnon wins record-tying ninth National Newspaper Award

SaltWire Network |Updated a day ago |1 min read Gallery

Chronicle Herald editorial cartoonist Bruce MacKinnon won his ninth National Newspaper Award, tying the all-time record set by Grant Robertson of the Globe and Mail. MacKinnon won for a collection of his work, including five editorial cartoons. The ...

Michele and Brian Haire hold a photo of their late son, Cameron, in their Lower Sackville, NS Tuesday April 23, 2024. Cameron took his life last year at the age of 26. 

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They lost their kids: These parents say the N.S. mental health system must change to help others

Nicole Munro · Multimedia Journalist |Updated Apr. 26, 2024 |7 min read Premium content

Michele Haire’s voice quivered as she said her son’s name - Cameron.  “Every single day is a struggle,” Haire said before letting out a deep exhale.  It was April 16, two days before Cameron’s 27th birthday.  But for the first time since he was born, ...

Teachers from the Nova Scotia Teachers Union hold a picket rally during the afternoon commute, on the Armdale Rotary in Halifax Monday April 15, 2024. The NTSU members recent;y voted 98% of a strike mandate.

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Nova Scotia Teachers Union, provincial government reach tentative agreement on a new contract

Xixi Jiang |Updated a day ago |2 min read Premium content

The Nova Scotia government has agreed to invest in strengthening supports for students and addressing concerns expressed by NSTU in previous votes and rallies as part of a tentative contract agreement reached on Friday. “I’m very happy the bargaining ...

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Canadian First Nation declares emergency after INEOS chemical release in Ontario

Wa Lone |Updated a day ago |2 min read

By Wa Lone (Reuters) -Canada's Aamjiwnaang First Nation declared a state of emergency due to a chemical release from INEOS Styrolution's plastic manufacturing plant in Sarnia, Ontario, the Indigenous group said. The Frankfurt-based company, a unit of ...

The New Brunswick government has signed two bilateral agreements with Ivory Coast focusing on economic relations, youth, education, training, professional mobility and culture. From left, Education and Early Childhood Development Minister Bill Hogan, and Ivory Coast Foreign Affairs, African Integration and Ivorians Abroad Minister Léon Kacou Adom. - Contributed

New Brunswick signs two bilateral agreements with Ivory Coast

Atlantic Briefs Desk |Updated a day ago |2 min read Premium content

The New Brunswick government is strengthening its ties with Ivory Coast through the signing of two bilateral agreements.  During a recent delegation to Ivory Coast and Morocco, Education and Early Childhood Development Minister Bill Hogan met with ...

Construction workers at 139 Main Street is busy with building the affordable housing project

Independent living during mental health challenges: Dartmouth housing project underway

Xixi Jiang |Updated a day ago |4 min read Premium content

Politicians from three levels of government joined Affirmative Ventures' board Chairman Ken Greer on Friday to announce the opening next year of the Main Street Centre. The announcement took place on Friday morning at the rear parking lot of Army ...

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