Bryony House employees held a protest Friday calling for management to immediately find a temporary shelter for women and children after the Halifax facility closed its doors more than two months ago.

Martin sold her Waverley home to Bryony House for $1,075,000, to be used as the grand prize in the home lottery. She then bought the house back from the winners for $620,000, a difference of $455,000.

Sancho blamed Bryony House for the lottery's problems. "The prizes were awarded without the project manager, me personally, being involved. Things could have been distributed differently," she said.

Bryony House — a shelter for abused women in Halifax — received a donation of $5,000 thanks to a group of students who took a vested interest through a school project.

The owners of a luxury home in Waverley, N.S., may have to pay a former business partner hundreds of thousands of dollars over a failed bid to raise money for the Bryony House women's shelter, a ...