Residents of a Newfoundland island have managed to pluck at least three dolphins out of thick pack ice and carry them to open water, even as hope fades for a humpback whale trapped in Cook's Cove.

Nova Scotia's premier says "decades" of education-policy errors have contributed to the historic teachers walkout that saw the legislature enveloped in a cacophony of protest speeches and cowbells.

Fliss Cramman learned that she was to be deported back to England despite having left the country with her family when she was eight.