The Tories have called for their election machine to get warmed up, with the expectation they’ll go to the polls this spring.

A confidential memo sent to constituency presidents, the party executive and MLAs on Thursday says it’s time to find candidates and plan campaigns.

A Hammonds Plains woman who went on a three-month crime spree following a bad breakup in 2007 was sentenced Friday to 127 days of custody.

Tammy Elizabeth Chrzaszcz was set to go to trial in Nova Scotia Supreme Court this week on a number of charges, but instead pleaded guilty to one count each of theft under $5,000, assault with a weapon and having a blood alcohol level above the legal limit.

Hec Crighton Trophy-winning quarterback Erik Glavic has departed the Saint Mary’s Huskies for the Calgary Dinos, leaving a potential rift between the current Saint Mary’s regime and former head coach Blake Nill, now the Dinos’ bench boss.

OTTAWA _ Statistics Canada says Canada's economy lost 34,000 jobs in December as the unemployment rate jumped to 6.6 per cent from 6.3 per cent in the previous month.

These two guys can't even cry in their beer.

Two men face charges after beer was stolen from a Dartmouth brewery.

TORONTO _ The drastic drop in global stock markets and interest rates has been mirrored by Canada's corporate pension plans, according to an international consulting firm.

Watson Wyatt Worldwide (NYSE:WW, NASDAQ:WW) said the ratio of a typical pension plans assets compared with its solvency liabilities plunged 27 per cent in 2008. Dismal economic developments in the fourth quarter helped drag the ratio down from 96 per cent last January to just 69 per cent at year's end.