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• Saint John celebrates Memorial Cup win with parade Thursday

  Saint John is having its dog day. The host city of the 2022 Memorial Cup is celebrating after the Saint John Sea Dogs bested the Hamilton Bulldogs 6-3 in front of a capacity crowd during Wednesday's championship game at TD Station.

  

• Opposition parties call on Houston government to cut gas tax, even temporarily

  Gas prices continue to fuel record inflation, and while other provinces like Newfoundland and Labrador and Ontario have committed to cutting provincial gas taxes, Nova Scotia premier Tim Houston won't budge on the issue.

  

• Kanata: Halifax celebrates Indigenous culture and traditions for Canada Day

  The return of Halifax's Canada Day celebrations honoured the first people on the lands now known as Nova Scotia. The city of Halifax hosted an event called 'Kanata' – the Iroquois word for 'village' – that can also mean 'community.'

• Cape Breton sees large crowds celebrating Canada Day

  Nothing shows normalcy in the community of Westmount, N.S., like a sea of red and white on Canada Day at Petersfield Provincial Park.

• Murphy's Logic: Politics trumps public interest

  The initial reluctance of governments, federal and provincial, to appoint a public inquiry into the N.S. mass shooting, was difficult to understand. It took the heartfelt pleas of the victims’ families and the fast rising tide of public opinion to make the politicians act.

• Multiple New Brunswick emergency departments close as long weekend begins

  It's becoming all too routine in New Brunswick, emergency room closures were announced again over the holiday weekend.

• How Air Canada flight cutbacks will affect Maritime travellers, airports

  Several flights in and out of Atlantic Canada have been cancelled for July and August to reduce flying at peak times. The reductions are an attempt to improve customer service through fewer flights.

• Complicated Canada Day: Maritimers share their feelings on celebrations this year

  The stage is set for what promises to be a more normal Canada Day in Fredericton, N.B. Final preparations were underway at the city’s exhibition grounds, where festivities begin Thursday night.

• Man dies in hospital after workplace incident in Saint John: police

  A 60-year-old man has died in hospital following a workplace incident in Saint John.

• P.E.I. farmers, producers relieved after ground meat exempted from warning label

  Farmers, producers, and other industry members are breathing a sigh of relief after their products were exempted from legislation that would have put a warning label on ground meat.

• Researcher tells N.S. inquiry domestic violence often downplayed in rural communities

  An expert told the public inquiry into Nova Scotia's mass shooting today that domestic violence is likely to be under-reported in rural communities.

• Response to mass shootings should be 'political and immediate,' survivor says

  Former public safety minister Bill Blair was asked yet again Wednesday about whether his government interfered in the investigation into the April 2020 shooting spree in Nova Scotia -- a question that has grabbed political attention in Ottawa for over a week.