Atlantic News

HALIFAX — After placing a framed photo of U.S. President Donald Trump on a table, Matthew Burke steps back and takes a mighty swing with a baseball bat. Glass shatters as the frame explodes. The obliterated image vanishes.

LANGFORD, B.C. — Coach Dean Murten has named his 28-player Canadian under-20 women’s rugby squad for a tour of Ireland in May. The young Canadians will play their Irish counterparts on May 10 and May 17 at the IRFU High Performance Centre in Dublin.

ST. JOHN'S — As Canada vows to knock down internal trade barriers, unions representing workers at two large breweries in Newfoundland say easy beer sales between provinces would put local jobs at risk. Workers at the Molson Coors brewery in St.

HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia government's plan to double a deed transfer tax for non-resident homebuyers needs to be reconsidered, says the association for the province’s Realtors.

HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia government has identified five areas that it deems suitable for the development of offshore wind farms.

LEWISPORTE, N.L. — A man who drove to a police station in Newfoundland to talk about an investigation was arrested for drunk driving shortly after he arrived. The Mounties in the coastal community of Lewisporte, N.L.

SYDNEY, N.S. — Rudy Guimond stopped all 26 shots he faced as the Moncton Wildcats blanked the Cape Breton Eagles 3-0 on Thursday in Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League action.

The Supreme Court of Canada has agreed to hear an appeal of a sentence given to an Indigenous man from Nova Scotia who brutally attacked his Indigenous common law partner.

Empire Co. Ltd.'s CEO says the grocer is seeing sales of products from the U.S. "rapidly dropping" as shoppers look to support the Canadian economy and avoid the potential effects of tariffs.

HALIFAX — A series of contentious Nova Scotia government bills — including one that would lift a ban on fracking and uranium mining — come before a legislature committee next week, and the province’s Opposition leader is urging the public to make its