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As domestic violence death toll mounts in N.S., calls come to fund support agencies

As domestic violence death toll mounts in N.S., calls come to fund support agencies

HALIFAX — Experts on domestic violence say a series of deaths in Nova Scotia over the past three months highlight the need to improve funding for the programs that battle the root causes of intimate partner violence.
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Suspect in New Year's Eve double slaying in Halifax was wanted in Toronto shooting

Suspect in New Year's Eve double slaying in Halifax was wanted in Toronto shooting

HALIFAX — Halifax police say the 39-year-old man who allegedly killed a woman and her father on New Year's Eve was a fugitive wanted in a 2019 Toronto nightclub shooting.
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Teen fatally stabbed in Halifax: Court hears disturbing details in statements of fact

Teen fatally stabbed in Halifax: Court hears disturbing details in statements of fact

HALIFAX — The grim details of the stabbing death of a 16-year-old Halifax boy last April were revealed in court on Friday as convictions were recorded for two teens who had pleaded guilty to taking part in the crime.
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Starting this year, income assistance in N.S. to be tied to consumer price index

Starting this year, income assistance in N.S. to be tied to consumer price index

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's decision to start indexing income assistance is a positive step, but it isn't enough to lift people out of poverty, says the head of a non-profit that supplies 140 food banks in the province. Income assistance rates rose by 3.
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Killing of woman, her father in Halifax a case of intimate partner violence: police

Killing of woman, her father in Halifax a case of intimate partner violence: police

HALIFAX — Two people killed in Halifax on New Year's Eve were victims of intimate partner violence, police said Thursday, the latest deaths in a series of similar crimes in the province less than four months after lawmakers declared domestic violence
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Nova Scotia wildlife centre waiting on good weather to release wandering golden eagle

Nova Scotia wildlife centre waiting on good weather to release wandering golden eagle

FREDERICTON — Maybe it was sick. Maybe it was just exhausted. Whatever the reason, a golden eagle flapped down in the middle of a road in central Prince Edward Island one late afternoon in November.
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A 73-year-old Nova Scotia man found dead after a house fire in Shubenacadie

A 73-year-old Nova Scotia man found dead after a house fire in Shubenacadie

SHUBENACADIE, N.S. — A 73-year-old man was found dead after a house fire in the small Nova Scotia community of Shubenacadie. RCMP say that at 7:15 a.m.
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Nova Scotia judge loses in court once again over COVID-19 vaccination status policy

Nova Scotia judge loses in court once again over COVID-19 vaccination status policy

HALIFAX — A Nova Scotia provincial court judge has lost again in court in a case that began over her refusal to disclose her COVID-19 vaccination status.
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'It isn't a future thing.' Climate change is taking a toll on Canada's lighthouses

'It isn't a future thing.' Climate change is taking a toll on Canada's lighthouses

HALIFAX — For more than 150 years, the stout and tidy Walton Harbour lighthouse in Nova Scotia has stood watch from a cliff overlooking the upper Bay of Fundy.
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Debris found at St. John's airport after plane takes off, catches fire on N.S. runway

Debris found at St. John's airport after plane takes off, catches fire on N.S. runway

HALIFAX — The Transportation Safety Board of Canada says it is investigating whether debris found on the runway of an airport in St. John's is connected to the plane that caught fire over the weekend after it landed on a Halifax runway.
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