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Nova Scotia

West Hants wants more space between wind turbines and private land. Developers aren’t happy

A Nova Scotia municipal council has voted to increase the distance wind turbines must be from private property without the…

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Sports

Plan to pump untreated sewage into Lake Ontario’s West Channel is anti-sport

Triathlon is a contact sport. I learned that quirky fact back in 2015, when a group of Canadian triathletes described…

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Sports

Homer-happy Astros clinch AL West for 7th time in past 8 seasons

Jason Heyward hit a go-ahead, two-run homer and made a dazzling defensive play as the Houston Astros beat the visiting…

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Sports

CFL: Blue Bombers visit Elks at hottest teams in West square off

EDMONTON – The Winnipeg Blue Bombers have won five in a row. The Edmonton Elks have won five of their…

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Politics

Canada abstains from UN motion calling on Israel to end occupation of Gaza, West Bank

Politics Canada abstained today from a high-profile United Nations vote demanding that Israel end its “unlawful presence” in the Gaza…

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Politics

How Russia uses race and migration to divide the West

One week after the U.S. Department of Justice dropped an indictment on two Russian propagandists accused of coordinating a disinformation…

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Nova Scotia

Laser aimed multiple times at aircraft flying over West Hants

Nova Scotia·New Nova Scotia RCMP are turning to the public for help after multiple reports of a green laser being…

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Nova Scotia

Lack of oversight for N.S. fire school symptom of ‘Wild West’ reality: fire expert

Growing safety concerns at the Nova Scotia Firefighters School have prompted questions about oversight, and some say highlight larger issues…

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Tech

Ottawa deploys mosquito-killing drones to prevent spread of West Nile virus

For once, that buzzing sound in your ear this summer might not be a mosquito, but part of Ottawa Public…

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Canada

‘I owe him my life’: Father hit by bullets in shootout while protecting kids in Montreal’s West Island

One of the men caught in the crossfire between police and a gun-toting suspect in Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Que., on Sunday took five…

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