On Monday, Sipekne’katik First Nation chief Michael Sack held a planned press conference to announce the opening of its new treaty fishery season. What wasn’t planned was Sack’s arrest following the press conference. Ku’ku’kwes News was on scene in Saulnierville, reporting that a handful of boats headed into the St. Mary’s Bay after the announcement. […]
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No ballots taken at Clayton Park West returning office break-in
With provincial election day looming, a break-in at the Clayton Park West returning office resulted in stolen ballot boxes and IT equipment, but no ballots were taken, Elections Nova Scotia said. The returning office for District 10 at 137 Chain Lake Drive was broken into in the evening of Sunday, August 15, according to a […]
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Encouraging student vote
With the summertime election call, student organizations have been hard at work encouraging the nearly 60,000 people studying in Nova Scotia to get out and vote under stranger-than-normal circumstances. The Canadian Federation of Students is highlighting election issues like tuition costs, climate change and tackling racism in a non-partisan campaign to encourage student votes. Related […]
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Shubenacadie residential school search hasn’t found anything yet
Editor’s Note: If you’re struggling with this story or the recent news, the National Indian Residential School Crisis line at 1-866-925-4419 is available 24/7. The IRSSS (Indian Residential Schools Survivors Society) can also be contacted toll-free at 1-800-721-0066. Last Wednesday, the search for unmarked graves at Shubenacadie Residential School ended with no indication that children […]
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How Facebook is interfering to prevent interference in the NS election
Nova Scotia’s election season is ramping up. On social media, political advertisements and donation pleas from parties have been filling newsfeeds for the past few weeks, all leading up to election day, Tuesday, August 17. But it’s not just social media managers who are keeping track of what gets posted to Facebook—the social media giant […]
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UPDATED: Liberal candidate booted from party over boudoir pics and OnlyFans account
UPDATE: The Nova Scotia Liberals announced a new candidate for Dartmouth South on the final day before the nomination deadline, July 29. The candidate is Lesley MacKay, whose bio says she graduated from the University of King’s College with a BA and then took public relations at NSCC. She currently works at the Liberal Caucus […]
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Government tells Nicole Gnazdowsky she’s “no longer welcome” to contact the province
About an hour after The Coast published a story about Nicole Gnazdowsky’s 510-page FOI document findings—which included instructions from government staff to delete notes of meetings—Nova Scotia’s associate deputy minister of justice told Gnazdowsky she was no longer welcome to communicate with the department. “Your communication with Labour and Advanced Education (LAE) staff has become […]
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NS calls grieving woman “hostile individual” behind her back
Nicole Gnazdowsky, the woman who’s been trying for months to get information from the province about her brother’s 2020 workplace death, said she wasn’t surprised to learn that NS staff called her efforts a “hostile attack” in government communications. “I understand why people just give up,” Gnazdowsky said in an interview Tuesday morning. Facing a […]
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Agricola Street sinkhole caused by human activity
If you followed the line of cement trucks down Agricola Street this morning, you would have found yourself looking down into a gaping sinkhole in the asphalt. Photos of the sinkhole began to circulate on social media at around 7am Monday, but construction crews did not arrive at the scene—just south of Sarah Street, near […]
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Premier Iain Rankin has called a provincial general election
Premier Iain Rankin, alongside his wife Mary Chisholm, visited Lt.-Gov. Arthur LeBlanc at Government House this morning to call the next general provincial election. Nova Scotians will be voting August 17, a Tuesday 31 days from now. The minimum allowable campaign length is 30 days. Nova Scotians have been on their toes waiting for this […]
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Nursing Homes of NS is launching its own election campaign
Update: Comment from Liberal leader Iain Rankin added following the July 17 morning election call. W hen election signs hit Nova Scotian lawns, so will campaign signs from the Nursing Homes of Nova Scotia Association. The organization is calling for a ministerial portfolio of continuing care and highlighting “issues that have been facing long-term care […]
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Rankin’s pre-election funding frenzy continues
On Friday, which is rumoured to be the day before the election call, Rankin’s list of announcements has continued to grow. Since this article was first written Thursday afternoon, the Liberal government in Nova Scotia has announced no less than eight different funding initiatives: Funding for clean transportation in Yarmouth Pilot project to help raspberry […]