The CFL has touched down in Atlantic Canada – and the community of Wolfville Nova Scotia will be hosting the big game at their Acadia University’s Raymond Field. The Mayor of Wolfville Wendy Donovan says an armada of busses is ready to take fans to the game from Halifax. “we have about 30 busses ready […]
Touchdown Atlantic is a neutral site game between the Toronto Argonauts and the Saskatchewan Roughriders on Saturday. For Riders kicker Brett Lauther it will truly be a home game. The Truro, Nova Scotia product will be competing in his home province when the CFL resumes Touchdown Atlantic in Wolfville. Leading up to the game, the […]
The Assembly of First Nations has “lost confidence” in RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki after months of unrest, National Chief Perry Bellegarde said Friday as he called for her resignation. “The safety and security of all Canadians, including First Nations people, must be the top priority of the prime minister and the federal government,” Bellegarde wrote […]
The family of Capt. Jennifer Casey says the member of the Snowbirds aerobatic team died while supporting an important mission “that seemed to be designed for her.” The 35-year-old Casey, a military public affairs officer and a Halifax native, was killed in the crash of a Snowbirds Tutor jet in a residential area of Kamloops, […]
Nova Scotia has issued an emergency alert advising people to shelter in place after reports of shots fired in two Halifax suburbs. The RCMP say they are on the scene following separate reports in Hammonds Plains and Hubley. The emergency alert says police are investigating in a wooded area between the Haliburton Hills and Highland […]
Under fire for how they alerted the public to a 12-hour massacre that took the lives of 22 people, the Nova Scotia RCMP defended their actions Wednesday, saying their use of Twitter was effective. Since the horrific string of killings started Saturday night and stretched into Sunday morning, questions have been raised as to why […]
The death toll from a massacre that stretched across rural Nova Scotia last weekend rose to 23 Tuesday as families grappled with the heart-wrenching question of how to mourn during a pandemic that is forcing people to stay apart. Tammy Oliver-McCurdie, whose sister Jolene Oliver, brother-in-law Aaron Tuck and niece Emily Tuck were among the […]
Investigators say a killer’s use of a mock police cruiser and an RCMP uniform almost identical to the real thing helped him escape detection as he travelled between 16 crime scenes in a rampage that has left at least 19 dead in Nova Scotia. Chief Supt. Chris Leather told a news conference Monday that the […]
A suspect in an active shooter investigation and an RCMP officer are dead after a lengthy police chase in Nova Scotia. The RCMP confirmed the suspect died Sunday at the Enfield, N.S., gas station about 35 kilometres northwest of downtown Halifax. The suspect was identified by the RCMP as 51-year-old Gabriel Wortman earlier Sunday. […]
The folksy, mid-winter tradition known as Groundhog Day has begun with one of Canada’s best known shadow-casting critters signalling a long cold winter ahead. Nova Scotia’s Shubenacadie Sam emerged from his burrow northeast of Halifax this morning, and according to his handlers, saw his shadow. Folklore has it that if a groundhog sees its shadow […]
