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Nova Scotia

March 2024

  • ‘It brings me joy’ … Christine Igot in Annapolis Royal, Canada.

    A new start after 60
    A new start after 60: I was terribly sad after losing my mother – then I started spreading good news

    Christine Igot lives with her family in a small seaside community. After retiring from her career as a French teacher, she uses her voice to make booming, informative and upbeat declarations

February 2024

  • Santa Barbara county firefighters help clear a tree

    Weather tracker
    Weather tracker: ‘Pineapple express’ atmospheric river deluges California

    Weather system brings heavy rainfall, strong winds and mudslides. Elsewhere, Nova Scotia declares state of emergency

March 2023

  • Flags of Nova Scotia and Canada fly at half-staff outside the Royal Canadian Mounted Police headquarters in Dartmouth in 2020

    Nova Scotia attacks: police heavily criticised for failures in Canada’s deadliest mass shooting

    RCMP response condemned after gunman drove a fake police car around for more than 13 hours, evading capture and killing 22 people

May 2022

  • Maud Lewis in 1970.

    Painting traded for a cheese sandwich in 1973 sold at auction for C$350,000

    Maud Lewis sold her paintings on Nova Scotia roadsides but found a larger audience after a 2016 biopic chronicled her life and work

May 2020

  • Members of law enforcement take part in a motorcade to honor the RCMP officer Heidi Stevenson, who was killed in the Nova Scotia shooting.

    Nova Scotia police under scrutiny as new details of shooting response revealed

    Authorities waited hours to warn the public that the gunman, who would eventually kill 22 people, was using a fake police car

April 2020

  • Mourners react at a memorial for RCMP Constable Heidi Stevenson, in Shubenacadie, near Enfield<br>Krista Hughes adjusts flowers that had blown away from a makeshift memorial for Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Constable Heidi Stevenson, who was shot dead during Sunday’s killing spree that worked it’s way across several Nova Scotian communities, in Shubenacadie, near Enfield, Nova Scotia, Canada April 22, 2020. REUTERS/Tim Krochak

    Twelve hours of terror: how the Nova Scotia shooting rampage unfolded

  • Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers prepare to take a person into custody at a gas station in Enfield, Nova Scotia on 19 April 2020.

    Canada shooting: gunman kills 16 people after rampage in Nova Scotia

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