Aaron Beswick

This will be Calix Marchand’s second world championship, having played in 2024.

Mary Walsh has made generations of Canadians laugh through characters like Marge Prince Warrior, confronting politicians as a plastic sword wielding, tutu wearing dispenser of widely held but unspoken truths wrapped in humour.

Nova Scotia’s firefighting community is mourning the death of Alexandru Uichita.The 40 year-old member of the Bridgetown Volunteer Fire Department suffered what’s being described as a “medical episode” while fighting the Moschelle wildfire in Annapolis County on May 21.

A by-election will be held on June 23 to select an MLA for the newly formed riding of Cheticamp-Margarees-Pleasant Bay.The by-election was announced Sunday and will see Claude Bourgeois representing the Progressive Conservatives, Denis Cormier for the Liberals and Trevor Poirier for the NDP.

The search for a missing baby in Halifax has ended in tragedy.

Nova Scotia’s firefighting community is mourning the death of Alexandru Uichita.

Energy has always been critical to Nova Scotia. From the carbohydrates powering paddles pushing birchbark canoes to the wind in schooner sails to the water turning Jim MacKay’s Pictou County grist mill.

On Sunday afternoon no-one at the Pleasant Bay Fishing Derby was surprised Howard Timmons had the biggest trout.“Howard’d catch a fish in a mud puddle,” said Chief Murray Pattingale of the Pleasant Bay Volunteer Fire Department.

On the mornings he’s up early enough Gerald Hatcher’s hands and mind are occupied with twine.

The RCMP are investigating a suspicious death in Upper Big Tracadie just two weeks after a man was found murdered in West Arm Tracadie.