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From left, Sydney businessman Craig Boudreau, police Const. James Fitzgerald of downtown patrols, regional police Chief Robert Walsh, CBRM Coun. Eldon MacDonald, Michelle Wilson and Const. Gary Fraser attend Monday's grand opening of the Cape Breton Regional Police Service's Community Office on Charlotte Street in downtown Sydney. "We need a presence in the downtown area," Fraser said. IAN NATHANSON/CAPE BRETON POST

Cape Breton police open downtown Sydney community office to help improve safety

Ian Nathanson · Multimedia journalist |Updated 3 hours ago |10 min read Premium content

SYDNEY, N.S. — Cape Breton Regional Police have added a significant presence in the downtown Sydney core. The police service on Monday officially opened a Charlotte Street community office that aims to address the needs of downtown Sydney business ...

Washbrook Greenway Coalition members Wayne McKay, from left, Jim Burton, David Gabriel, Joe Dennis, Dennis Shea, Stephanie Johnstone-Laurette and John Graham. Chris Connors/Cape Breton Post

Federal government announces funding for Sydney trail that would follow Wash Brook from urban forest to the harbour

Christopher Connors · Multimedia journalist |Updated 3 hours ago |6 min read Premium content

SYDNEY, N.S. — One word typically comes to mind when people think about Sydney’s Wash Brook: flooding. Now, a community group is trying to change that perception with a 2.6-kilometre trail that follows the much-maligned waterway from the Baille Ard ...

RNC officers sit in their patrol car outside a residence in Torbay on Sunday morning, March 19. Officers responded there overnight Saturday after reports of a shooting. Joe Gibbons • The Telegram

Trial begins for man charged with attempted murder in Torbay shooting last year

Tara Bradbury · Reporter |Updated 3 hours ago |4 min read Premium content

As the trial of a man charged with attempted murder at a Torbay residence last year began in provincial court Monday, May 13, his lawyer suggested he hadn’t even been at the home at all on the day in question. David Reardon, 51, is charged with ...

Smoke rises from mutual aid wildfire GCU007 in the Grande Prairie Forest Area near TeePee Creek, Alberta, Canada May 10, 2024. Alberta Wildfire/Handout via

Canadian National Railway suspends service on some networks due to wildfires

Reuters |Updated 1 hour ago |1 min read

(Reuters) -Canadian National Railway suspended service on its network between Fort St. John and Fort Nelson in British Columbia and north of High Level, Alberta due to wildfires, the company said on Monday. "We are working with impacted customers as ...

Health critic Barry Petten. - Juanita Mercer/The Telegram file photo

'Why can't they bill the government?' Tories call on N.L. government to pay nurse practitioners through MCP like they pay doctors

Jenna Head |Updated 4 hours ago |6 min read Premium content

As Newfoundlanders and Labradorians continue to feel the effects of doctor shortages, the Tories are calling on the Liberal government to pay nurse practitioners like they pay doctors. This idea, brought forward to the House of Assembly by PC health ...

Alberta's Premier Danielle Smith makes a keynote speech at the LNG 2023 energy conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada July 13, 2023.

Alberta urges Canada PM Trudeau to head off port and rail strikes

Reuters |Updated 6 hours ago |2 min read

OTTAWA (Reuters) - The western oil- and grain-producing province of Alberta on Monday urged Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to do all he could to head off potentially devastating strikes by railway and port workers. Staff represented by ...

Arthur L. Irving, the second-born son of New Brunswick oil pioneer K.C. Irving, passed away Monday, May 13, at 93.

Former Irving Oil president Arthur Irving dies at age 93

Atlantic Briefs Desk |Updated 5 hours ago |2 min read Premium content

Arthur L. Irving, the second-born son of New Brunswick oil pioneer K.C. Irving, died Monday at 93. The Saint John native spent decades as president of the global company before becoming its chairman, and eventually leaving the firm in October 2023.

Colchester County District RCMP has charged a former school band director with sexual offences that occurred in Valley between 2005 and 2007. Survivors are encouraged to reach out to the RCMP. File

Mounties stop 'dangerous' driver in central Newfoundland, charge him with impaired driving

Atlantic Briefs Desk |Updated 6 hours ago |1 min read Premium content

Mounties in central Newfoundland allege a 47-year-old man from Portugal Cove-St. Philip’s provided breath samples four times the legal limit when stopped on Saturday afternoon, May 11. Around 2:30 p.m., the RCMP received multiple complaints of a ...

Ottawa cabbies protest Uber outside Ottawa City Hall in this 2015 file photo.

City surrendered to Uber's bullying tactics and abandoned Ottawa cabbies, judge rules

Blair Crawford · Postmedia News |Updated 6 hours ago |3 min read Premium content

A judge has ruled in favour of Ottawa taxi drivers in their $215-million class action lawsuit against the City of Ottawa over how the city “abandoned” them when ride-hailing company Uber arrived in 2014. The decision by Ontario Superior Court Justice ...

Coroner Stéphanie Gamache ahead of the inquest into the 2021 death of Raphaël André on Monday, May 13, 2024. “We are going to concentrate on and look at and understand the structures in place in Montreal for vulnerable people like Raphäel André at the moment of his death,” she said.

Coroner's inquest into death of unhoused Innu man begins

Ren̩ Bruemmer, Montreal Gazette |Updated 6 hours ago |4 min read Premium content

The coroner’s inquest into the death of Raphaël André, a 51-year-old Innu man whose body was discovered inside a portable outdoor toilet in January 2021 steps away from a unhoused aid shelter, began Monday with a reconstruction of the last hours of ...

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