Nova Scotia

Justin Trudeau says his government hopes to make legal changes that will cement his transformation of the Senate into a more independent, non-partisan chamber, making it harder for a future prime minister to turn back the clock.

Canada's largest business group has endorsed a carbon tax as the most efficient way for the country to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

A call for energy companies to bid on exploration rights around Nova Scotia’s iconic Sable Island - home to endangered species, wild horses and legendary shipwrecks - has prompted swift condemnation from a coalition of environmental, fishing and tourism groups.

For the first time in a decade Ontario will not receive an equalization transfer from Ottawa, prompting the province's finance minister to join calls for the federal government to review how the program is set up.

Forty days ago, a woman returned to her home on Nova Scotia's We'koqma'q First Nation to find her 22-year-old daughter, Cassidy Bernard — a new mother of infant twins — dead.

It's been a century since Fort Anne became Canada's first administered national historic site, but much of the history surrounding the once hotly contested grounds in Annapolis Royal, N.S., is still shrouded in mystery.

Vice-Admiral Mark Norman's lawyers want to turn a senior Liberal cabinet minister's words against him in their effort to exonerate the suspended military officer, who has been charged with leaking cabinet secrets.

The Canadian government has to answer to the findings of two nurses who told a United Nations committee this week that women and girls in Canada are facing abuse so extreme it amounts to torture, Conservative MP Arnold Viersen says.

A new $10 banknote featuring Viola Desmond's portrait will go into circulation in a week, just over 72 years after she was ousted from the whites-only section of a movie theatre in New Glasgow, N.S.

The federal government's impending national carbon price could bring in more than $250 million in GST revenues next year but Ottawa doesn't intend to account for those funds in its rebate program.

The federal government will take some of the sting out of its upcoming carbon tax on Tuesday, October 23, 2018, with a promise to give rebates directly to Canadians.

A Calgary businessman and philanthropist paid roughly $750,000 to help free kidnapped journalist Amanda Lindhout in Somalia.

Jimmy's Cannabis will be opening its doors to the public for the first time on Oct. 17 — but it's still not clear whether there will be any pot products on its shelves.

The Ocearch research team came to Nova Scotia this fall on a hunch.

Green crabs from Nova Scotia are the same species as their cousins that already inhabit Maine waters, but are ornerier and angrier, threatening to accelerate harm to the coastal ecosystem by gobbling up soft-shell clams and destroying native eel grass, a researcher said.