A new nursing home that will be built in the Preston area of Nova Scotia is billed as the first of its kind, and some health-care workers hope it signals the expansion of Black health-care infrastructure across the province.
HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia government is facing accusations from a former judge who says misinformation and ignorance were behind the attorney general's decision last week to dismiss him as the commissioner leading a high-profile inquiry.
The attorney general has asked the chief judge of the provincial court to assign a new judge to finish the work started by the man who was presiding over the fatality inquiry.
The Nova Scotia government has dismissed the judge presiding over a five-year inquiry that investigated why Afghanistan war veteran Lionel Desmond killed three family members and himself in 2017.