Elizabeth Chiu

Edgar Burns, the newly minted Liberal candidate for the riding of Dartmouth East, ruffled feathers at a local school after a teacher complained she felt “duped” into a photo op.

Museums are in the business of collecting rare, historical objects like mummies and dinosaur bones. But its work also happens in real time, as evidenced by the Nova Scotia Museum’s acquisition of the first COVID-19 vaccine vial used in the province.

Leslie Obol believed she could safely push out her fourth baby in a water birth at the IWK hospital in Halifax. Her birth plan was approved, and with support from a midwife, a doula, a nurse and her husband, she delivered Alioune - in water.