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Speaking for The Coast: Pressing concerns 2

By Kyle Shaw and Christine Oreskovich

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Paramedics have a simple code—you call, we come—that means you’re supposed to get help in an emergency. But Nova Scotia’s overburdened health care system can’t always deliver, and first responders are getting burned out and misused.

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Schooners Sports and Entertainment carry the puck over the blue line with a three-on-one breakaway to secure conditional funding.

The only non-hospital surgical abortion clinic in the maritimes is in danger of closing.

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