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Ontario had 30 femicides in 30 weeks, new report says as 'same gaps' in support persist | News

Advocates are sounding the alarm on gender-based violence, calling for a clear and urgent strategy from the Ontario government as femicides continue to rise.

Ontario saw 30 femicides in 30 weeks from Nov. 26 to June 30, according to a report by the Ontario Association of Interval and Transition Houses (OAITH) released Wednesday. Last year, the organization's statistics showed 52 deaths in 52 weeks.

"It's very frustrating," said Marlene Ham, executive director at OAITH. Five femicides occurred
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Ontario needs to spend millions for $10 a day child-care plan to work in Toronto: advocates | CBC News

Ontario needs to step up with millions of dollars in order for the national $10 a day child-care plan to work in Toronto, say advocates. A report set to go to city council Wednesday is recommending that Toronto ask the province to step in to make the plan work for children, parents and staff. In a letter sent to city council on June 13, advocates from the early childhood education sector asked Toronto to call on the province for additional funding toward wages and working conditions of early chi...
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Students, ex-president raise concerns about racism at NSCAD | News

Alexandria Masse remembers the day she went home crying in the spring of 2020 after a staff member at NSCAD University looked at her and said, "it makes sense the virus came from China because the Chinese are so dirty."

"I genuinely feel it's an unsafe place if you're a minority there," said Masse, who is half Chinese and graduated from the textile and fashion program in 2022.

She is one of seven current and former students who spoke to CBC News about their experiences with racism at the schoo
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Anonymous donor offers $10M to save N.S. church facing demolition. But there's a condition | CBC News

A group rallying to save Église Sainte-Marie in Church Point, N.S., says its prayers may have been answered.Pierre Comeau, the president of Société Édifice Sainte-Marie de La Pointe, says an anonymous donor is offering to cover $10 million worth of repairs and ongoing maintenance for the iconic structure.But there is a condition. It must be an active church, something it hasn't been since 2019."It's a fabulous offer, and the group that we're with, we're tickled pink," said Comeau.He said he cann...
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After being bullied at school, N.S. boy receives birthday cards from around the world | News

Joey Connolly's birthday is around the corner, but the 11-year-old with autism from Digby, N.S., is already inundated with birthday cards from people who are sending him words of comfort after he was bullied.

His mother, Renee Connolly, says her son has never been happier.

Joey's parents recently shared on social media that their son was being bullied at school and that all he wanted for his birthday, which is Monday, is 100 birthday cards.

As of Saturday, he had received about 700, many from
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Nova Scotians aren't getting the help they need to remove online intimate images, expert says | News

A new report finds that Nova Scotians with intimate images posted online without consent are bypassing the province's cyberbullying support system and attempting to take matters into their own hands.

Alexandra Dodge, a digital criminologist at Saint Mary's University, said the problem is bad enough that many people in the situation are unaware the province has a system designed to help them.

It was created in 2013 after the death of Rehtaeh Parsons in response to the issue of cyberbullying wit
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Students fuel drive to bring French school to Acadian community in Guysborough County | News

A new generation of Acadians in Guysborough County wants to connect to its French roots and is fighting to make it happen.

Last week, Conseil scolaire acadien provincial, Nova Scotia's French school board, supported bringing a French school into the area after seeing high demand from the community.

If the project gets approval from the province, the school could open in a temporary location in September, according to the board. It says a permanent solution could be found after that.

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'She was a fighter': N.S. author remembered for strength in the face of ALS | CBC News

Angela Parker-Brown didn't want her legacy to just be of a Nova Scotian woman with ALS, and it isn't.It is of resilience, of dignity and compassion, say friends, family and even people who never met her. The 50-year-old author from Truro, N.S., died peacefully Friday, her sister Bev Maxwell said. Her family was by her side. "She was a trooper right up until the very end," Maxwell said. "She was strong … surrounded with love, just what she wanted. She didn't want to be alone, and she was never al...
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Nova Scotians grieve dead, stranded loved ones in Syria and Turkey | News

Nihal Ciplak and Muzaffer Deveci are going to work at their restaurant, Turkish Delight, in Halifax as they would on any other day — but they feel broken inside.

They lost a sister, a sister-in-law and a niece in the earthquakes in Turkey last week. Their relatives' remains were found in the rubble of apartment buildings in İskenderu, a city on the Mediterranean in the Hatay province.

"It's been a lot on our family. Just death after death after death," said Deveci through tears during an inter
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Ukrainian refugee ready to represent Nova Scotia in Canada Games, but there's one problem | News

When he was six years old in Kremenchuk, Ukraine, Sasha Kaplin's father told him to pick a sport and stick with it.

His mother, Yana Kaplina, says the family would scramble to drop the child off at judo practice with their busy schedules.

But it finally paid off, she says. "Now we have good results."

Kaplin recently qualified for the Judo Nova Scotia team, and his goal is to win a medal for Nova Scotia at the Canada Winter Games in P.E.I. later this month.

The only thing stopping him is his
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'I just need a chance to live again': Jamaican migrant worker with cancer begs to stay in N.S. | News

Update, Jan. 27, 2023: The federal government says Kerian Burnett can now stay in Canada until 2024. Full details are in the video below.

A seasonal farm worker from Jamaica is fighting to stay in Nova Scotia for cancer treatment, saying it would be a death sentence for her to go home.

Kerian Burnett, 42, was hired by a Colchester County farm through the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP) in April. She picked strawberries for about two months before she began experiencing severe pain.
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Newborns being directed to mobile clinics amid doctor shortage | News

The first visits to the doctor for some Nova Scotia newborns will be to mobile clinics, amid a shortage of health-care workers in the province.

Deirdre Smith, a registered nurse and health-services manager with Nova Scotia Health, said the "unattached newborn clinics" launched in December.

They are being run out of the mobile health clinics that launched in November to address strain on a health-care system that is leaving emergency rooms in some parts of the province beyond capacity.

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Turning disaster into art, wood carver makes sculptures from trees downed by Fiona | News

Mike Palmer and his fiancé Charmaine Rozee were devastated when post-tropical storm Fiona brought down the giant poplar tree that had stood tall for nearly 90 years on their property.

"That tree was our tree," said Rozee. A bracket that held the family nameplate had become embedded in the wood over the years.

Instead of chopping it all up for firewood, Palmer took a piece to a wood carver he came across in Peggys Cove.

"I thought it would be a really cool time to say, look, the tree is not re
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Canadian Blood Services needs Black Canadians to donate, but expert says barriers persist | News

Canadian Blood Services is urging Black Canadians to help diversify its blood donor and stem cell registry base.

But one expert says that call needs to include an acknowledgement of historical harm that Canadian Blood Services itself has done to the Black community.

There are currently around 1,000 people in Canada looking for a stem cell donor through the organization.

But matches are only found among donors who share the same ethnicity and heritage as the recipient, said Matthew Seftel, a p
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How Viola Desmond's salon space has been reimagined through art | News

Those walking along Gottingen Street in Halifax can now step into an art space created to honour civil rights activist Viola Desmond.

The Viola Desmond Experience was created by artist Marven Nelligan and was unveiled last week.

It is part of the Viola Desmond Legacy Art Project committee, created a few years ago to commemorate Desmond's life before she became known for her activism.

Desmond, a Black beautician and businesswoman, was arrested in 1946 while watching a movie in the whites-only
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High levels of stress, anxiety among seniors stripped of services in Bridgewater apartments | News

Last week, an 84-year-old man in an apartment building for seniors in Bridgewater, N.S., was taken to the hospital after having a mental breakdown, say fellow residents.

"There's been members of the building who have actually been hospitalized in the mental health unit in the hospital just because of just a total breakdown of stress related to this," confirmed Aaron Kenny, pastor at the Bridgewater Baptist Church, who has been meeting regularly with residents of Drumlin Hills apartments.

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Accusations of racism shutter groundbreaking Halifax institute studying Canadian slavery | News

Charmaine Nelson finds it quite ironic that a Halifax-based institute she founded to study slavery in Canada closed after she felt discriminated against as a Black woman.

The prominent art historian, educator and author resigned from her position as the director of the Institute for the Study of Canadian Slavery at NSCAD University earlier this year. She says the undermining of Black academics is what racism looks like in universities and is a problem across Canada.

"NSCAD, like other institut
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Dozens of birds hurt by Fiona take refuge in Hope for Wildlife | News

Post-tropical storm Fiona left many birds in Nova Scotia with broken bones, physical trauma, and exhaustion.

On Thursday morning, Hope Swinimer, the owner of Hope for Wildlife, said the organization is caring for about 100 birds, which is three times as many birds as it usually sees this time of the year.

She says petrels, gulls, terns, finches, blue jays, pigeons and doves were all tossed and thrown around in the strong winds by the post-tropical storm that hit the province early Saturday.

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Crews going full tilt in Halifax area to clean up after Fiona | News

Crews are still going full tilt in the Halifax Regional Municipality to clean up after Fiona.

During a press briefing Wednesday afternoon, Nova Scotia Power's storm lead said the majority of customers in the province will have power restored by Friday night. Matt Drover said some may need to wait longer into the weekend and possibly even early next week.

"There are areas that may have been hit harder than others," Drover said.

Drover said there are more than 1,400 people in the field "working
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Homes, cottages along Nova Scotia's North Shore washed away by Fiona | News

The CBC's Brett Ruskin speaks to one resident in Marshville, N.S., who saw cottages disappear into the sea from the storm surge of post-tropical storm Fiona.

Cathy Scott and her husband Ian Scott of Truro, N.S., have owned a cottage in the small seaside community of Marshville for 29 years. It's where their children and grandchildren spent many happy summers.

On Sunday, the couple discovered their cottage had been uprooted and swept to the road by post-tropical storm Fiona as it moved over nor
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N.S. man teams up with Terry Fox's brother to bring Canadian icon's run to Ireland | News

Living in Ireland for the last few years, Halifax native Stew Paterson felt something was missing every September.

The Terry Fox Run was part of his upbringing and his Canadian roots, but Fox's legacy is not well known in Ireland — so he took it upon himself to change that.

On Sept. 17, Paterson partnered with the Terry Fox Foundation to organize the first Terry Fox Run in Ireland in over a decade.

He reached out to Fox's brother, Darrell Fox, who flew to Ireland for his first Terry Fox Run o
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X-ray visits to emergency rooms are making a bad situation worse: ER doc | News

When Nova Scotia put a stop to walk-in appointments at X-ray clinics two years ago due to COVID-19, it created long waits for scheduled appointments — and one emergency room doctor says patients are circumventing the lineup by going to ERs across the central zone instead.

Dr. Mike Clory, the emergency department chief at Cobequid Community Health Centre in Lower Sackville, says the number of patients showing up seeking X-rays has become a significant problem for already-strained emergency rooms
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Seniors in Nova Scotia apartment building fear they're being pushed out | News

Ninety-year-old David George Bryant moved into Drumlin Hills in the Town of Bridgewater, N.S., nearly a decade ago because his memory was failing.

He and his wife would burn their dinners after forgetting them on the stove.

So Bryant chose an assisted-living suite at Drumlin Hills while his wife moved into a nearby long-term care home. This way, he could visit her three times a week and still have food and housekeeping services in his apartment.

Now Bryant, along with others in assisted-livin
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Ukrainian medical workers frustrated by 'silence' on Nova Scotia licences | News

Some Ukrainian medical workers who fled the war for Nova Scotia say they are frustrated by how hard it is to get approval to work in their new homeland.

Nova Scotia called for Ukrainian medical workers through the program, which says, "Are you a Ukrainian health-care worker looking to practise in Nova Scotia? There may be a great career already waiting for you!"

Ukrainian refugees were also drawn by a provincial program seeking immigrant physicians to fill jobs Canadians and permanent resident
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