Should one of Canada’s longest-serving female inmates be granted ‘mercy’?Tuesday, 18, November, 2025  Behind bars for murder since she was 15 years old, Serena Tobaccojuice has amassed a record of prison hostage-takings. A judge will sentence her this week for unlawfully confining two prison guards at a Nova Scotia prison. Her lawyer is seeking the most lenient sentence possible.
| How much social pressure is needed to derail a government project?Tuesday, 18, November, 2025  When a provincial government has a big project it wants to make happen, public buy-in matters — especially when the stakes include a billion-dollar deficit. The CBC's Taryn Grant and Michael Gorman explain how reactions to projects at West Mabou Beach and a Mount Uniacke quarry highlight the importance of social licence.
| MD-turned-MLA alleges political interference in effort to provide emergency department coverageTuesday, 18, November, 2025  A Nova Scotia opposition MLA who is also a doctor is concerned that delays he faced getting privileges to cover vacant shifts at the Yarmouth emergency department were the result of political interference. Government officials, however, say they were just doing due diligence in the face of an unusual situation.
| This N.S. town has turned on a homeless shelter. The shelter says it’s facing a crisis aloneTuesday, 18, November, 2025  Tensions are high in New Glasgow, N.S., where residents, business owners and town officials are upset with the behaviour of some people using a homeless shelter. But the shelter operator says they are standing alone in the face of a growing crisis in the community.
| Some guns turned in to buyback program, Cape Breton police commissioner saysMonday, 17, November, 2025  The chair of Cape Breton Regional Municipality's police commission, Coun. Glenn Paruch, says official numbers are not available yet, but he's heard up to 22 banned firearms have been turned in from the region during the federal buyback pilot project.
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