Seventeen new health-care professionals are due to start work in Nova Scotia this week, after being recruited from Jordan through a new pharmacist licensure pilot program. The group, which also includes professionals from Syria and Iraq, arrived in the pr... See more
The new board members of the Africville Genealogy Society are sharing their vision for the historic Black community after being elected last fall. The members plan to hold a meeting to introduce themselves and hear directly from descendants and former res... See more
A community-based response team being piloted in Dartmouth, N.S., offering an alternative model to police to support people in crisis, is expanding to 24-hour service. The Crisis Assistance and Response Team, known as CARE, launched in October and is movi... See more
An international student at Dalhousie University in Halifax is raising issues with Canada’s immigration process after she had to stop studying and working because of a visa processing error. Chihiro Kondo still cannot understand what happened when her app... See more
The number of patients that acute care nurses are looking after is a priority area for the Nova Scotia Nurses' Union in their next round of contract talks with the province. Nurse-to-patient staffing ratios are seen as a significant step to improve workin... See more
