Category: Amherst

Sears locations in Halifax, Dartmouth and Truro are among those set to close across Canada.

An arbitrator has ruled in favour of teachers in a training dispute.  The education department had unilaterally taken back approval for those taking correspondence courses at Iowa-based Drake University.  That was done after questions about their quality, and the teachers union says there’ll be individual remedies for nearly 500 teachers who were already taking them.