More than 3,700 homes in Nova Scotia aren’t available to families seeking permanent housing because they are listed as short-term vacation rentals, according to research by a Halifax community group. Neighbours Speak Up compiled data from the Government of Nova Scotia’s short-term accommodations registry — as well as short-term rental …

Halifax Regional Council has confirmed its support for the IIHF World Junior Championship in Halifax and Moncton, following news that Hockey Canada’s board will resign. Speaking during a special council meeting Tuesday evening, Mayor Mike Savage said the way Hockey Canada has handled allegations of sexual assault by players is “wrong,” …

A federal program meant to provide provinces and municipalities with funding for disaster-resilient infrastructure projects is oversubscribed and running out of money years before it’s set to expire. The government launched the Disaster Mitigation and Adaptation Fund (DMAF) in 2018 with an initial budget of $2 billion over 10 years. It …

A recently released document shows the City of Calgary has paid two people $3.1 million for land that will be added to its planned Paskapoo Slopes park. That park is to be just east of WinSport and south of the new Trinity Hills residential/commercial development along the Trans-Canada Highway. When city …

B.C.’s municipal election is on the horizon. Voting day is Oct. 15 across the province. Affordable housing, road safety and the possibility of amalgamating with the City of Victoria are all top of mind for voters in Vancouver Island’s most populous municipality. Incumbent Mayor Fred Haynes and former district councillor Dean Murdock shared …

Canada’s deputy prime minister urged the world’s democracies Tuesday to confront the hard economic truths of a perilous new world order and seek common cause in the shared values of prosperity, energy security, protecting the planet, and free and fair trade. Chrystia Freeland delivered an eloquent obituary for the relative …

Maritime Electric, P.E.I.’s main electrical utility, continued the hard slog of restoring mostly individual power outages on Tuesday, returning power to about 600 customers 19 days after Fiona knocked it out. Immediately following the post-tropical storm on Sept. 24 electricity was out for the whole province. With the work done …

Iran suffered a “major disruption” in internet service Wednesday as calls for renewed protests again saw demonstrators on the streets weeks after the death of a 22-year-old woman who had been detained by the country’s morality police, an advocacy group said. The demonstrations over the death of Mahsa Amini have …

Two police officers are dead following a shooting in an Innisfil, Ont., home. In a news release, South Simcoe Police Service said its officers responded to a call at a home near 25th Sideroad and 9th Line shortly before 8 p.m. on Tuesday. According to police, two officers were shot while …

The walk of shame. Tina Cobey says that’s what Louise Dean students used to call the walk into school each morning. It was the 1980s, and the program for pregnant teens and young moms was at Ernest Manning High School. Every morning, Cobey would walk her newborn son in his …