Residents of a rural part of the Halifax municipality are concerned after learning the emergency department at their hospital would be closed for all of January.
Residents are calling a month-long closure of the emergency department at the Eastern Shore Memorial Hospital in Sheet Harbour, N.S., "unacceptable" and "dangerous."
A local company will carry out the dismantling of the MV Holiday Island. Back in July, the former ferry had a fire break out in the engine room that damaged the vessel and rendered it inoperable. The federal government put out a tender for the disposal of the ship and…