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This senior golfer recently parred one of Nova Scotia's toughest courses. David McDonald, who is 85 years old, shot 72 last month at the Ashburn Golf Club's new course.

u/NovaScotiaTimes — 1 day ago
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"Cattle rancher's creek runs dry due to fracking operation nearby" We do not want this in Nova Scotia. The conservatives lifted the province's decade-long fracking moratorium, and this is what's coming next if we don't stop it.

Windsor, Amherst, and Pictou are potential areas where this could happen.

Anyone have friends or family there? What do they think?

"Drinking wells drop," Drew writes. "They say the rain isn't enough to make up for how much has been lost from the aquifers — the deep underground natural reservoirs that feed those wells."

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u/Eubleen — 2 days ago
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Tuna weighing 1479 lbs (679 kg), caught on a fishing rod. Nova Scotia, 1979. The record has not been broken yet.

u/bbq-fan-club — 8 days ago
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Malehya Brooks-Murray's children, Jack and Lilly Sullivan, went missing from their home in Lansdowne, Nova Scotia on May 2, 2025. Their mother has stayed out of the public eye, but is now speaking for the first time in 15 months.

u/NovaScotiaTimes — 8 days ago
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One year ago The Ship Hector was launched today in Pictou, Nova Scotia. The original Ship Hector brought many of the first Scottish settlers to Nova Scotia (New Scotland) in 1773! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇨🇦

u/NovaScotiaTimes — 6 days ago
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Today, August 13, 2026, marks 71 years since the official opening of the Canso Causeway on August 13, 1955... a historic day that forever changed the connection between Cape Breton Island and mainland Nova Scotia.

u/NovaScotiaTimes — 7 days ago
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A family of hobby farmers who live in a historically Black neighbourhood of Truro, N.S., is pushing back on a proposed development that could go in next door.

u/NovaScotiaTimes — 7 days ago
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I had the pleasure of meeting the GOAT, Franklin T. MacDonald near the Sydney boardwalk. The honour was entirely ours.

u/NovaScotiaTimes — 9 days ago
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Sable Island fly over 🚁 🐴

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"Located 290 kilometres offshore from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Sable Island National Park Reserve is home to a population of  wild horses who roam across some of the largest sand dunes in Eastern Canada. The world’s largest breeding colony of grey seals also live on these extensive beaches!

The island is open to visitors June to October each year, and is accessible only by plane or boat."

u/NovaScotiaTimes — 8 days ago
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This Big Blueberry in Oxford Nova Scotia has been the star of many roadtrip family photos over the years. Oxford, Nova Scotia is the blueberry capital of Canada and the center of the large Wild Blueberry growing region of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick & Maine.

u/NovaScotiaTimes — 7 days ago
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A team of scientists are looking at eastern red-backed salamanders and their behaviour to study the impacts of an invasive bug and the insecticides we use to fight it.

u/NovaScotiaTimes — 6 days ago