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The head of a committee monitoring how governments and the RCMP are responding to the inquiry into the 2020 mass shooting says she is encouraged by their "serious commitment."

A member of the committee monitoring how governments and the RCMP are responding to the inquiry is raising concerns from survivors of gender-based violence about a lack of action.

PolySeSouvient estimates about 450 firearms need to be added to the list of banned weapons and it is urging the government to complete the task before the next federal election.

The victims have been identified as Cora-Lee Smith, 40, and her father Bradford Downey, 73. Police say Matthew Costain, who was in a relationship with Smith, was later found dead.

Since October, five women have been killed in Nova Scotia by a male partner, police in the province say. Advocates are calling for action now.

Landon Sim recorded a hat trick and Denver Barkey had five assists as the London Knights won big on the final day of 2024.

RCMP in Nova Scotia said they are now investigating the deaths of a man and woman who were found inside a burnt-out vehicle last month as homicides.

A Nova Scotia organization that provides transitional services to women is calling on political leaders to pay more attention to gender-based violence.

Tara Graham says her family is speaking out because her mother, Brenda Tatlock-Burke of Nova Scotia, was the victim of intimate partner violence.

An order in council dated Oct. 16 allows for prohibited assault-style firearms to be removed from safes, transported and ultimately destroyed. 

The lightning fast passage of the bill introduced by the opposition NDP came less than an hour after the premier told reporters he didn’t think the legislation was necessary.

In 2007, Rev. Rhonda Britton came to Halifax's New Horizons — then called Cornwallis Street Baptist Church — becoming the first woman senior pastor at the historic institution.

The head of a committee monitoring the government's response to the inquiry into the 2020 Nova Scotia mass killing says she’s pleased with progress made so far.

Nova Scotia’s justice minister has released a set of 39 standards for all police services in the province including the RCMP.

The leader of New Brunswick's Progressive Conservatives is promising to make financial literacy part of the school curriculum if his party wins the Oct. 21 election 

The commander of the RCMP in Nova Scotia will apologize to the province's Black community on Saturday for the Mounties' historic use of street checks.

The family of an Indigenous woman who died in hospital has filed a lawsuit against the Nova Scotia health authority and four doctors.

In a soggy baseball field not far from the Bay of Fundy, more than 400 of Wyatt Sanford's neighbours cheered Sunday as the Nova Scotia boxer loomed large on a big screen and won a bronze medal at the Paris Olympics.

A Nova Scotia judge scolded a man responsible for the 'monstrous and evil' murder of an 84-year-old woman in 2020 when handing down his sentence Thursday.

A mass-advertising NoFrills text message encouraging customers to “skip the line” at their local farmers’ market and visit their stores instead.