BRIDGEWATER - Since the COVID-19 pandemic, town council has approved the construction of 2,000 new housing units, with another 3,000 more in the queue and ready to come online in the next 10 years. Those numbers are impressive but could be daunting when you consider that those new units will effectively double the town’s current 4,000 units.

SOUTH SHORE – A decision by the South Shore Regional Centre of Education (SSRCE) to remove certain flags from South Shore schools seems to have taken the government of Nova Scotia by surprise and has groups across the region worried about the impacts on inclusion and diversity.