Tag: Nova Scotia
11 months ago
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Wildfires explained: Why is smoky air so bad for you + what you can do to prevent forest fires

Toronto Star stories and explainers about wildfires across Canada and how you can protect yourself from the fumes

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over 1 year ago
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After Fiona, experts say Atlantic Canada must further fortify itself against storms

Massive storms like it are predicted to occur more frequently in the future and experts say the region must prepare.

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almost 3 years ago
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How will Justin Trudeau fight his next election campaign? The provincial race in Nova Scotia may ...

As Nova Scotians get ready to go to the polls, they are happy, increasingly vaccinated and hopeful that the worst of ...

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almost 3 years ago
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Canada has let thousands of AstraZeneca vaccine doses expire — and thousands more soon will. Why ...

Fully one-third of the AstraZeneca doses distributed to Prince Edward Island, for example, have gone to waste.

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almost 3 years ago
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How Canada is moving to end the systemic ‘environmental racism’ that has been the toxic burden of...

Both Canada and the U.S. are taking action against the environmental injustice that has seen racialized and Indigenou...

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over 3 years ago
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Restaurant and bar owners hope COVID-19 will prompt discounts on alcohol for licensees at the LCBO

Ontario’s liquor laws have been loosened during the pandemic allowing alcohol delivery alongside takeout food. Restau...

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over 3 years ago
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Stories of captain and crew emerge in wake of N.S. ship sinking — as fisher who couldn’t make tri...

At 5 p.m. local time Wednesday, the military’s Joint Rescue Co-Ordination Centre ended its search, and turned the lea...

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over 3 years ago
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Opinion | It is ‘pure cruelty’ for the RCMP to charge abused wife of N.S. mass killer

The Nova Scotia mass killer hated all women, from the ones he saw socially, to the woman he worked with and lived wit...

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over 3 years ago
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A flock divided by COVID-19: As some snowbirds brace for first Canadian winter in years, others s...

The Canadian Snowbird Association estimates that 70 per cent of its 110,000 members will hunker down in Canada this w...

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