As Tim Houston stands in the Nova Scotia legislature, he looks around and begins to address the room. Houston says that when he was first elected premier, there was a freedom of information request that “gave (me) pause.” The premier says he thinks he knows who sent the request in but can’t be sure. The […]

A new report says Nova Scotia is failing to adequately protect female migrant workers employed on farms and seafood plants in the province.  The report, published by the Centre for Migrant Worker Rights Nova Scotia, reviewed over 40 pieces of existing research and surveyed dozens of workers in the Colchester, Cumberland, and Pictou counties of […]

The premier of Nova Scotia is calling for an investigation into how a major power utility has handled a cyberattack, saying residents should not be responsible for paying for Nova Scotia Power’s failures. Tim Houston wrote to the chair of the Nova Scotia Energy Board, saying he wants the regulator to look into the way […]

Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston says he is disappointed with how the privately owned provincial utility responded to a cyberattack earlier this year. The cyberattack struck Nova Scotia Power last April, disrupting some systems at the utility and prompting complaints from a number of customers about who had gained access to their personal information.  Houston […]

The president and chief executive officer of Nova Scotia Power says a Russia-based actor is likely behind a cybersecurity breach that targeted the utility’s customers in April. “This incident was an unprecedented, sophisticated and targeted attack,” Peter Gregg told a committee of the Nova Scotia legislature in prepared remarks on Tuesday. “Based on expert assessments […]

Nova Scotia’s largest electric utility says it has fallen months behind in paying contractors and suppliers because of a cyberattack in March that saw hackers trying to steal personal information from more than 200,000 ratepayers. Nova Scotia Power spokeswoman Jacqueline Foster apologized on behalf of the utility on Monday, saying invoices are being paid, but […]

Organizers behind a plan to establish North America’s first coastal refuge for captive whales say the Nova Scotia government has granted them approval to start construction on the province’s eastern shore. The U.S.-based Whale Sanctuary Project announced Tuesday that Premier Tim Houston’s cabinet had granted the organization a 20-year lease for 83 hectares of Crown […]

The RCMP has agreed to release new information about the disappearance of two children from their home in rural Nova Scotia, including accounts from witnesses who said they heard a vehicle going back and forth nearby, a few hours before the kids were reported missing. Malehya Brooks-Murray reported her children, six-year-old Lilly and four-year-old Jack […]

Nova Scotia’s Progressive Conservative government pushed through its remaining pieces of legislation on Friday, wrapping up an eight-day sitting that opposition parties say was purposefully kept short to stifle dissent.  The sitting was dominated by a controversial bill, introduced on the first day, that prohibits protesters from blocking access to logging roads on Crown land, […]

The Nova Scotia government has tabled legislation that could weaken a key section of the province’s transparency law. If adopted, the bill would remove what a provincial watchdog described as a crucial portion of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. The bill would also extend deadlines for the release of government records […]

Limits on the collection of Nova Scotians’ social insurance numbers are part of a sweeping bill tabled on Tuesday by the provincial government as the legislature opened for its fall sitting. The bill includes one new piece of legislation and amends seven other acts dealing with issues as diverse as domestic violence and protests that […]

A Nova Scotia home-sharing program that was billed as a tool to help address the housing shortage fell far short of the government’s initial target, documents released by the province show. In an email shared as part of a freedom of information request made by a member of the public, a housing strategist for Nova […]