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Belgium honours Indigenous First World War veterans
A national ceremony in Belgium on Friday recognized the roughly 4,000 First Nations, Metis and Inuit soldiers from Canada who fought in the First World War. It was part of a series of commemorative events held there in the week leading up to Remembrance Day.
The RCMP say a man killed his wife. Her daughters say police won't admit he's an ex-Mountie
The daughters of a woman who was killed in Nova Scotia twelve days ago by her husband before he killed himself are calling on the RCMP for more transparency around domestic violence, alleging the force is covering up what happened because their mother's husband was a retired Mountie.
Ottawa woman calling for health-care reform in N.B. after husband died on vacation
An Ontario woman whose husband died in a New Brunswick hospital while on vacation in 2023 is urging Canadians to advocate for their loved ones waiting in emergency rooms, and calling on candidates in New Brunswick’s provincial election to address what she calls a crisis in health care. Three people died in ER waiting rooms in New Brunswick in 2022.
Refugee health-care workers bringing strong skills, full hearts as they take on new jobs in a new land
Nova Scotia health-care workers were recruited from one of the world's largest refugee camps as part of a federal program that aims to bridge the gap between skilled displaced people and labour shortages.
What Canada can learn from Maine's approach to the lucrative baby eel fishery
Authorities in Maine say they have figured out how to regulate a fishery that is so out of control in Canada, the federal government has shut it down this year — the third shutdown in five years — putting 1,100 people out of work.
Musicians say alcohol and the industry are intrinsically linked, but some want to change that
The ECMA launched a "Dry January" initiative for the first time this year because artists are increasingly talking about alcohol being so intrinsically linked to their industry.
Researchers used Hurricane Larry to prove ocean microplastics can be swept inland as air pollution
As Hurricane Larry lashed Newfoundland in 2021, university students from Halifax headed to a rural area in its track to find out whether the ocean might whip microplastics up into the atmosphere then transport them by air to otherwise pristine communities.
N.S. veteran receives critical injury benefit after trauma from alleged military sex assault
In what may be a Canadian first, a Nova Scotia veteran says she feels validated after the Veterans Review and Appeal Board overturned a decision by Veterans Affairs Canada and recognized the trauma she experienced after an alleged sexual assault as a critical injury, granting her the lump sum payment of $84,203.
Deadly horse virus prompts cancellation of equestrian events across N.S.
Equestrian events across Nova Scotia are being cancelled in an effort to prevent the spread of equine herpesvirus-1, after an outbreak a local veterinarian says has killed four horses.
Meet the B.C. beetles on a cross-country mission to save Nova Scotia's hemlocks
More than 3,000 tiny beetles have been shipped across the country from their native British Columbia to try to control an invasive species killing Nova Scotia’s hemlock trees.