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Registered occupational therapist Chelsea Surette (left) and registered physiotherapist Maria Wamback are co-owners of the newly opened Acadian Shores Health Centre. TINA COMEAU

'Community helped make this happen': Acadian Shores Health Centre looking to give back through its services

A new health centre in Yarmouth is feeling its community roots. Not only does it feel like it was helped along by the community in starting up and offering the services it does, but it also hopes to become involved in the community. “We are very ...

Updated Mar. 26, 2024 |6 min read

Tories pushing Antigonish consolidation through with amendments

Updated Mar. 25, 2024 |2 min read

Housing Minister John Lohr announces a five-year housing plan at One Government Place in Halifax on Monday, Oct. 23, 2023. - Francis Campbell

Two people charged with drug and weapons offences in Stellarton, N.S.

Updated Mar. 25, 2024 |2 min read

RCMP have laid a third charge in connection to the homicide of Natacha Leroy. CONTRIBUTED

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UPEI student raises concerns about campus accessibility challenges he’s faced for six years

Updated just now |8 min read

Price of gas up 9.8 cents a litre in N.S.

Updated 43 minutes ago |1 min read

Shortage of substitute bus drivers in P.E.I.'s French language school board

Updated 55 minutes ago |2 min read

The Russian flag flies on the dome of the Kremlin Senate building behind Spasskaya Tower, in central Moscow, Russia, May 4, 2023.

Kremlin says staff of some govt departments are subject to foreign travel bans

Reuters |Updated 19 minutes ago |1 min read

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Friday that staff in some government departments were banned from travelling abroad for security reasons, while some departments required people to provide advance notification of any foreign travel plans.

Military personnel stand guard at a nuclear facility in the Zardanjan area of Isfahan, Iran, April 19, 2024, in this screengrab taken from video. WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS

Israel and Iran both have muted response to Isfahan attack

Reuters |Updated 29 minutes ago |3 min read

JERUSALEM/DUBAI (Reuters) - Israeli media cited foreign reports of an Israeli strike on Iran on Friday in the absence of official public comment, while Iranian television reports played down the attack - many not even mentioning the "Zionist ...

Japan's Former Prime Minister and current Vice-President of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, Taro Aso, speaks during the Ketagalan Forum in Taipei, Taiwan August 8, 2023.

Leading Japan lawmaker seeks Trump meeting during New York visit, NHK reports

Yoshifumi Takemoto |Updated 29 minutes ago |2 min read

By Yoshifumi Takemoto TOKYO (Reuters) - A senior figure in Japan's ruling party will travel to New York next week and is seeking a meeting with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, according to public broadcaster NHK. Taro Aso, a ...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken stands with Turkey's Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on the day of a NATO foreign ministers meeting at the Alliance's headquarters in Brussels, Belgium April 3, 2024.

Western states sought to send de-escalation messages to Iran via Turkey, Western diplomat says

Reuters |Updated 39 minutes ago |1 min read

ANKARA (Reuters) - Western states have sought to send Iran messages via Turkey in recent days to reiterate appeals for de-escalation, a Western diplomat said on Friday. The messages were conveyed before reported Israeli attacks on Iran early on ...

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy attends an interview for the representatives of Ukrainian media, as Russian's attack on Ukraine continues, in Kyiv, Ukraine April 4, 2022. Picture taken April 4, 2022. Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Handout via

Ukraine's Zelenskiy visits frontline Donetsk region

Reuters |Updated 39 minutes ago |1 min read

(Reuters) - President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Friday visited the frontline Donetsk region in Ukraine's east and held a meeting on the defence situation. He said on X that he also visited a paratroopers' medical platoon and examined the ...

New York, NY - April 18 : Former President Donald Trump returns to the courtroom following a break at Manhattan criminal court as jury selection continues in New York, NY on Thursday, April 18, 2024. Trump faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records as part of an alleged scheme to silence claims of extramarital sexual encounters during his 2016 presidential campaign. Jabin Botsford/Pool via REUTERS

Trump's Stormy Daniels payoff trial hinges on his intent

Luc Cohen |Updated 39 minutes ago |4 min read

By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) - At Donald Trump's criminal trial, there is no dispute about a central underlying fact: the month before the 2016 presidential election, his personal lawyer and fixer paid a porn star for her silence about an ...

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) speaks to the media after the Senate dismissed the House Republican impeachment charges against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., April 17, 2024.

US House Speaker Johnson risks fellow Republicans' wrath with Ukraine vote

David Morgan |Updated 49 minutes ago |4 min read

By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson looks set to push forward this weekend on a $95 billion aid bill for Kyiv, Israel and other allies, despite a firestorm of protest from hardline Republicans that could lead to ...

Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump reacts as he speaks at a watch party event to mark the Super Tuesday primary elections at his Mar-a-Lago property, in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. March 5, 2024.

Trump uses hush money trial to squeeze small donors, court big spenders

Alexandra Ulmer, Jason Lange |Updated 49 minutes ago |4 min read

By Alexandra Ulmer and Jason Lange (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is using his hush money trial to squeeze his loyal army of small donors and personally lobby major backers as he scrambles to reduce a major fundraising ...

Former U.S. President Donald Trump listens to his lawyer Todd Blanche during jury selection of his criminal trial on charges that he falsified business records to conceal money paid to silence porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016, in Manhattan state court in New York City, U.S. April 18, 2024 in this courtroom sketch.

Lawyers aim to wrap up jury selection in Trump criminal trial

Luc Cohen, Jack Queen and Andy Sullivan |Updated 49 minutes ago |3 min read

By Luc Cohen, Jack Queen and Andy Sullivan NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lawyers in Donald Trump's criminal trial are expected on Friday to wrap up the painstaking process of selecting a jury that will for the first time in U.S. history determine whether ...

EU Commission seeks feedback on Vifor's commitments in rival's disparagement case

Reuters |Updated 1 hour ago |1 min read

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union antitrust regulator said on Friday it was seeking feedback on the commitments offered by drug maker Vifor Pharma in a case of alleged anti-competitive disparagement of iron deficiency medicine made by its ...