Nova Scotia

When Sweeny Karande was in her nursing program in India, her teacher presented her with an award as the best outgoing student. "This is just the beginning," her teacher said. "You can't stop here."

The repeated threats and isolation a Nova Scotia mass shooter allegedly used against his spouse show why such cruelty should be a criminal offence in Canada, experts on domestic violence say.

A newly released document details warning signals of paranoid behaviour and unusual stockpiling of guns and gasoline by the man who went on a rampage that killed 22 people in Nova Scotia last month.

A former neighbour of the gunman behind last month's mass shooting in Nova Scotia says she reported his domestic violence and cache of firearms to the RCMP years ago and ended up leaving the community herself due to fears of his violence.

Scores more people in Canada have succumbed to COVID-19, authorities reported on Thursday, May 7, 2020, as one of the country's major inter-city bus carriers announced it would be shutting down completely due to a precipitous drop in passengers caused by the pandemic.

Mounties in Nova Scotia are under scrutiny for not issuing an emergency alert as a gunman rampaged through rural communities, but there's nothing in the national RCMP handbook to suggest that they should have.

Canada took further baby steps toward post-pandemic normalcy on Friday, May 1, 2020, as Atlantic provinces began easing rigid restrictions imposed to curb the COVID-19 scourge, while Quebec's death toll climbed past 2,000 as it set to ease its measures.

Police say the man who went on a murderous rampage through five Nova Scotia communities was likely using unlicensed firearms, and investigators are trying find out how he obtained illegal weapons.

The death toll from a killing rampage in Nova Scotia could rise today, April 21, 2020.

RCMP say 17 people are dead, including one of their officers, after a man who at one point wore a police uniform and drove a mock-up cruiser went on a rampage across northern Nova Scotia in one of the deadliest killing sprees in Canadian history.

As Greg Gerrits hustles to keep up with the surging public appetite for his preserves and parsley roots, his emotions shift between hope and skepticism over the revival of smaller scale agriculture.

The head of the Canadian Police Association says he is worried about the increasing number of COVID-19 threats officers face while responding to calls.

The federal government is bringing in further measures to reduce the risk of spreading COVID-19 on commercial passenger vessels and ferries.

Being a small East Coast province in the pandemic is a double-edged sword: there are fewer critically ill patients, but the supply of hospital beds is limited if the worst-case scenario materializes.

Ease into the pitch slowly, get the cheques in the mail, plan to keep making new plans and above all else — don't get complacent.