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Ian Fairclough

Reporter · CA

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Sep 30, 2026
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Jul 13, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Ian Fairclough

    Nova Scotia woman scammed for $10,000: Online shopping ends with deposits in Bitcoin terminal (opens the original)

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    A Kentville woman can’t believe she fell for a phone scam that cost her $10,000. “I’m still trying to recover from being so embarrassed about it happening in the first place,” she said. “I’m totally stunned over how it went down.” The woman, who is in her 80s, didn’t want to be identified to protect herself from being targeted again, but she said she wants to make others aware of the techniques scam artists employ. “If in any way it would help somebody else by reading about this, I want to (talk

  2. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Ian Fairclough

    Kings County man killed wife after her decision to take own life in face of homelessness and health concerns, court told (opens the original)

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    Douglas Andrew Smith was at his wits’ end when he smothered his wife to death in 2022, a judge was told at his sentencing in Kentville Supreme Court. Smith, now 75, was sentenced to six years in prison for manslaughter in Iris Dodd’s death. He pleaded guilty to the charge in April. According to the agreed statement of facts read Tuesday by Crown attorney Dan Rideout, Dodd had experienced a slow but progressive decline in her overall health before Smith killed her on April 30, 2022, the same day

  3. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Ian Fairclough

    Gus going under the knife: Halifax museum's beloved tortoise to have surgery next month (opens the original)

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    Gus, the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History’s beloved resident tortoise, is going to be out of circulation for a bit as he undergoes surgery. The museum said Monday that Gus – 104 years old – was diagnosed with a urinary stone in 2009. The stone is a hard lump of minerals that formed in his bladder and is common in tortoises. It wasn’t causing him any discomfort at the time, and the only surgical option would have meant drilling through his shell and a long recovery. Because of that, his age

  4. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · Ian Fairclough

    Kings County woman sentenced to house arrest for fatal crash near Wolfville (opens the original)

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    A Berwick woman has been sentenced to two years of house arrest and 18 months of probation for the death of an elderly woman she struck with her car near Wolfville two years ago. Naomi Gerrits, 39, pleaded guilty in March to dangerous driving causing death for a crash in Wolfville Ridge that killed 87-year-old Joan Hill. Gerrits was driving a Hyundai Santa Fe that failed to negotiate a sharp curve on Ridge Road on the afternoon of June 5, 2024 and struck a Toyota Corolla that was parked off the

  5. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · Ian Fairclough

    More than a decade after bats were almost wiped out in Nova Scotia, there are some optimistic signs of recovery (opens the original)

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    It may be more likely you’ll see bats in Nova Scotia these days, if only slightly. More than a decade after a fungus nearly wiped out the populations of the three species that make their home in the province year round, there are some preliminary signs of recovery. During the winters of 2011-13, white-nose syndrome was responsible for a decline of 93 per cent of bats in five of Nova Scotia’s largest overwintering sites. Lori Phinney is a species-at-risk biologist with the Mersey Tobeatic Researc

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