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Focus on opening doors drives immigration aid groups
Immigration Program "a model that could be extended to … the country"
'If this region is going to survive and prosper, immigration is ...
McNEISH: 'We are now a global community'
Younger doctors exhausted by new practice demands
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One million flora and fauna at risk in the back yards of Atlantic Canadians
Unless drastic action is taken by humans, more than one million species of plant and animal life face extinction within the next handful of decades. That was the bleak conclusion reached recently by a United Nations study, compiled from research ...
Efforts continue to rejuvenate American marten population in Cape Breton Highlands
The American marten was almost gone from Cape Breton 18 years ago. But it’s not been forgotten. The marten ended up on the Nova Scotia Endangered Species Act in 2001. However, in 2007, the Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources ...
Jailhouse strip searches traumatic, unnecessary: Elizabeth Fry Society
In the 36 months she was behind bars, Bianca Mercer estimates she was strip searched around 1,300 times. Every time she received her methadone treatment, she was strip searched. Pregnant during her second incarceration at Central Nova Scotia ...
P.E.I.'s piping plover and over one million other species risk extinction: UN report
Piping plovers are living precariously on P.E.I. Despite more than 30 years of conservation efforts, fewer than 100 of the shore birds are returning to the Island annually to mate. The species, small enough to be cradled in the palm of your ...
Federal Tories using hybrid automated system to raise election funds
Eventually, Brandon Vasko asked the caller if she was a bot. “There was silence and she said ‘ha ha, I don’t sound that fake, do I? I’m just reading off a set of scripted ...
Happy Valley-Goose Bay man stabbed overnight
A 29-year-old man showed up at the hospital in Happy Valley-Goose Bay earlier this morning, May 9, with a knife wound that required immediate medical attention. The man, from Happy Valley-Goose Bay, is currently recovering in hospital. Officers ...
Shrimp plant workers optimistic following deal
A St. Anthony Seafoods plant worker calls an arrangement to process industrial shrimp great news for plant workers across the province. Up to 6,000 to 7,000 extra tonnes of industrial shrimp will be processed in the province this year, thanks to a ...
United Nations report paints bleak picture for P.E.I.’s brown bat
Unless drastic action is taken by humanity, more than one million species of plant and animal life face extinction within the next handful of decades. That was the bleak conclusion reached recently by a United Nations study, compiled from research ...
NL Votes 2019: Provincial Autism Action Plan must keep channels open, support group CEO says
A provincial action plan released April 17 to help individuals living on the autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has raised concerns for the local Autism Involves Me (AIM) group, says co-founder Joan Chaisson. “We are really happy to see that ...
Remembering Westray 27 years later
Today, May 9, marks 27 years since the Westray Explosion, but the effects are still felt in Pictou County. It was a disaster that took away loved ones, ended underground mining in the county and changed how safety is viewed and prosecuted across the ...
