Halifax News

An independent board of inquiry has awarded Robert Theriault $64,515 for financial losses and damages resulting from his forced retirement from an Acadian school board in Nova Scotia. Board chairman Don Murray, in a ruling released today, accepted that Theriault...

Opposition critics are taking aim at what they say are out-of-touch, ideologically driven Conservative MPs, citing recent comments on the unemployed and abortion emerging from government ranks. Tory MP Gerald Keddy's crack about the jobless on Halifax streets being "no-good...

The man who murdered Adam Eisenhauer and Tyler Sampson in 2005 will not be eligible for parole for 13 years. Health officials in Nova Scotia's largest health district say there are signs that swine flu infections in the province are...

Montreal S tephen Harper's Conservatives did not initiate the culture of casual indifference to Canada's legal humanitarian obligations that has surfaced periodically in the national capital over the past decade, although they did reinforce it. After 9/11, the federal mindset...

The Laval Rouge et Or won’t get a chance to play for the Vanier Cup in front of their hometown fans. The Queen’s Golden Gaels saw to that Saturday, knocking off the No...Gaels, who earned their first trip to the...

Sen. John McCain says he enjoyed reading Sarah Palin's new memoir and says the tension between his campaign aides and hers is no big deal. But McCain likened the tension of a campaign to combat in an interview Saturday with...

As the Obama administration wrestles over its new Afghanistan strategy, the domestic debate is having far-reaching implications for the United States' ties with its allies in the war...Gates was in Canada on Friday as part of an effort to strengthen...