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'On death row.' Wrongfully convicted N.B. man has mixed feelings since exoneration

'On death row.' Wrongfully convicted N.B. man has mixed feelings since exoneration

SAINT JOHN, N.B. — Robert Mailman has a problem he never thought he'd have. He has to buy Christmas presents this year. The 76-year-old was exonerated on Jan.
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RCMP investigating a serious crash outside Halifax involving 20-year-old driver

RCMP investigating a serious crash outside Halifax involving 20-year-old driver

HALIFAX — Halifax RCMP are investigating a serious single-vehicle crash in Enfield. Police say emergency responders arrived on scene of a reported single-vehicle crash on Highway 102 between exits 6 and 7 at around 11 a.m. on Friday.
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Calling all bloodhounds: These P.E.I. blood donors have four legs and a tail

Calling all bloodhounds: These P.E.I. blood donors have four legs and a tail

Mahone, a two-year-old, black, fluffy Newfoundland dog from Prince Edward Island, doesn't know that he and other canine blood donors have saved the lives of fellow pooches that have needed surgery, or have been poisoned.
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Halifax police still looking for information three years after 8-year-old shot dead

Halifax police still looking for information three years after 8-year-old shot dead

HALIFAX — Today is the third anniversary of the unsolved murder of Lee’Marion Shancez Cain, an eight-year-old boy who was shot while sitting in a vehicle with an adult in Dartmouth, across the harbour from downtown Halifax.
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Nova Scotia budget update reduces deficit by $220M, mostly due to higher tax revenue

Nova Scotia budget update reduces deficit by $220M, mostly due to higher tax revenue

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia’s budget deficit for the current fiscal year is now projected at $247.5 million — almost $220 million less than estimated in last February’s budget.
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QMJHL's Acadie-Bathurst Titan sold, will relocate to St. John's, N.L.

QMJHL's Acadie-Bathurst Titan sold, will relocate to St. John's, N.L.

BATHURST, N.B. — The Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League's Acadie-Bathurst Titan are relocating to St. John's, N.L., starting next season, the league announced Friday. The QMJHL said the sale of the team to investors, John Harvey Patten, John R.
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Ottawa's proposed shift of elver wealth has a problem: some recipients don't want it

Ottawa's proposed shift of elver wealth has a problem: some recipients don't want it

HALIFAX — Ottawa has hatched a plan to redistribute the wealth of Nova Scotia's baby eel harvest from large licence holders to hard-working, individual fishers like Suzy Edwards and Mark Weldon.
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Newfoundland woman washed sick patients' hair every Saturday for more than 20 years

Newfoundland woman washed sick patients' hair every Saturday for more than 20 years

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — A retired nurse and teacher in Newfoundland was honoured this week for her volunteer work, which included more than two decades washing the hair of bedridden hospital patients.
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MPs Bendayan, Duguid, Fisher to join Trudeau cabinet in shuffle Friday

MPs Bendayan, Duguid, Fisher to join Trudeau cabinet in shuffle Friday

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to add multiple new names to his cabinet Friday when he shuffles his team days after Chrystia Freeland rattled the party and the government with her sudden resignation as finance minister.
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Theodore Tugboat replica refloated after partially sinking at Ontario dock: owner

Theodore Tugboat replica refloated after partially sinking at Ontario dock: owner

The beloved Theodore Tugboat replica that partially sank in St. Catharines, Ont., has been refloated. The boat's owner says the life-size version of the TV character was safely righted on Thursday afternoon, but there is still more work to do.
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