Courtesy: CBC News Nova Scotia’s population is the highest it’s ever been thanks to a growth spurt of 1,460 in the first three months of 2016, according to a new report from Statistics Canada. The Quarterly Demographic Estimates report says the province’s population as of April 1, 2016 was 947,284. …

Courtesy: Herald News Canadians think Halifax is among the safest cities in the country but its nearest provincial neighbours think otherwise, a national opinion survey says. The Mainstreet/Postmedia poll included nearly 4,300 Canadians, 53 per cent of whom said Halifax was a safe place. A further 28 per cent said …

Courtesy: The Globe and Mail There are six churches in Pugwash, a deep-harboured village on Nova Scotia’s North Shore, and just 750 people. For a rural community where the ancestral habits of church-going are no longer automatic, within a secularizing nation where Christianity has long since lost its historic dominance, …

Courtesy: CTV News Scores of people clad in white gathered Sunday for a healing service in a community gym across the street from a fire-ravaged historic church just outside Halifax. The service was originally scheduled to take place in St. Thomas Baptist Church in North Preston, N.S., but was moved …