Nova Scotia·NewA spokesperson for the Nova Scotia government says the outage affected many programs and online services, including access to news releases and digital services delivered on novascotia.ca.The company has 5,000 customers in Nova ScotiaThe Canadian Press · Posted: Nov 18, 2025 8:19 PM EST | Last Updated: 1 hour agoListen to this articleEstimated 1 minuteThe audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence.A spokesperson for the Nova Scotia government says the outage affected many programs and online services, including access to news releases and digital services delivered on novascotia.ca. (Robert Guertin/CBC)The Nova Scotia government’s websites were off-line for part of Tuesday because of an outage at Cloudflare, a widely used internet infrastructure company based in San Francisco.The company says the disruption of its services started just before 8 a.m. Atlantic time, affecting thousands of customers, including ChatGPT, Spotify, OpenAI and the X social media platform.A spokesperson for the Nova Scotia government says the outage affected many programs and online services, including access to news releases and digital services delivered on novascotia.ca.According to website profiler BuiltWith.com, Cloudflare has 5,000 customers in Nova Scotia.Aside from the provincial government, its clients include Halifax’s Dalhousie and Saint Mary’s universities, grocery giant Sobeys Inc. in Stellarton, N.S., and garment maker Stanfields, based in Truro, N.S.By 10:42 a.m., Cloudflare said the problem had been fixed, but the company followed up with another message less than 20 minutes later saying some customers were still experiencing problems. MORE TOP STORIES
Cloudflare outage shuts down Nova Scotia government websites
