The coast guard is announcing it will spend $12.1 million to refurbish a light icebreaker at a shipyard on Nova Scotia's South Shore.

Fisheries Minister Bernadette Jordan was in Shelburne today to say the government will be funding repair work on the Canadian Coast Guard ship Edward Cornwallis, supporting 55 jobs at the Irving-owned Shelburne Ship Repair.

The work is expected to begin in April and last until January 2021.

A release says the repairs include the replacement of main engines, a new heavy-lift crane, a new bow thruster and hull coating.

The vessel will also undergo regulatory work such as inspecting the tail shafts, seals, stern tubes, propellers and rudder.

The 34-year-old icebreaker was launched in 1986. It was built by Marine Industries in Quebec.

Minor earthquake shakes homes, baffles residents in Dartmouth

More than 400 people reported feeling an earthquake that shook the Dartmouth, N.S., neighborhood of Montebello Sunday night.

Residents in the Montebello neighborhood of Dartmouth were startled by a minor earthquake Sunday evening.

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Nova Scotia firearms officer testifies at Lionel Desmond inquiry

The chief firearms office of Nova Scotia does not have the power to get a second medical opinion after reinstating a gun licence, unless the applicant gets flagged by police, a doctor or someone from the community. The was the information provided to the Lionel Desmond fatality inquiry on Monday.

On Jan. 3, 2017, Lionel Desmond shot his daughter, mother, wife and then himself in a home in Upper Big Tracadie. A fatality inquiry will look at the support services available to the Afghanistan war veteran. 

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On Jan. 3, 2017, Lionel Desmond shot his daughter, mother, wife and then himself in a home in Upper Big Tracadie. The fatality inquiry into their deaths will hear from the final witness for the first session Monday.

Nova Scotia predicts big bump in organ donations under new law

Adults in Nova Scotia will be considered automatic organ donors unless they opt out when a new law comes into effect later this year. The province expects the opt-out system will increase donations by as much as 50 per cent.

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Nova Scotia's Department of Health and Wellness estimates there will be an additional 10 organ donations and 138 tissue donations in the first year of the presumed consent law.

Collateral damage: Families of soldiers with PTSD struggle after Veterans Affairs counselling cut

Some family members of veterans suffering from mental health issues linked to their service say the federal government is cutting off their own publicly funded therapy - and seems unwilling to admit it.

Shane Jones and his daughter Ruth wait with a service dog in a hallway at the IWK Children's Hospital in Halifax in 2019.

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Visit to the gym might be what the doctor orders

Cape Breton doctors are prescribing exercise to patients to help them get healthy. One patient said it's been a big boost physically and mentally.

The entrance of a large building on a snowy day. The entrance sign says Frank Rudderham Family YMCA.

The Frank Rudderham Family YMCA in Sydney.

Sydney YMCA

Bernadette Jordan addresses the media in Ottawa in 2019.

Coast guard spending $12M to refurbish icebreaker Edward Cornwallis

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