Category Archives: News
Premier Blaine Higgs On Why N.B. Will Emerge Stronger From The Pandemic
This is the second of our exclusive Insights interviews with Atlantic Canada's premiers. New Brunswick weathered the pandemic better than most jurisdictions in the areas of public health, economic gro...
Acadia Broadcasting Corporation Mar 24, 2022
Third straight year for record high capital plan spending
The price tag of the 2022-23 capital plan is $1.5 billion. Allan MacMaster, Minister of Finance, presented the capital budget, the biggest in our province’s history, Wednesday. It includes about...
B. Jack Morse Mar 23, 2022
More Delays In Preliminary Inquiry Into Bridgewater Police Officer Stabbing
For the fourth time the preliminary hearing of Tobias Doucette is being delayed, this time for another year. Tobias Doucette was supposed to stand for his preliminary hearing this July, however, earli...
Evan Taylor Mar 23, 2022
Two charged after protests outside Dr. Strang's home
Two people have been charged by the RCMP in relation to COVID-19 mandate protests outside the home of a "prominent health official" in Fall River. Jeremy Mitchell MacKenzie of Pictou and Morgan May Gu...
Jakob Postlewaite Mar 23, 2022
MADD Creates Award In Honour Of Cst. Heidi Stevenson
A new award in honour of the RCMP officer killed in the Nova Scotia mass shootings. The Constable Heidi Stevenson Watch award will be given to police officers in our province that focus on reducing im...
Kevin Northup Mar 23, 2022
Hockey Canada Cancels Fred Page Cup
The Fred Page Cup is cancelled. Hockey Canada is scrapping the Eastern Canadian Junior A championship, along with all regional championships in the country. Instead, a ten-team national tournament wil...
Kevin Northup Mar 23, 2022
Province Increases Health Insurance Coverage For Firefighters
More health benefits for firefighters in Nova Scotia. The province announced yesterday that they’re increasing workplace injury insurance coverage to include 19 types of cancer and heart attacks...
Kevin Northup Mar 23, 2022
Police arrest pair after offences involving 'prominent health official'
Police have taken two people into custody after what they call offences involving a “prominent health official.” Halifax Regional Police say the arrests were made in connection with an ong...
Skye Bryden-Blom Mar 23, 2022
Diesel prices to jump Tuesday night, no change in gas
If you drive a diesel, the price is about to change significantly. Our provinces gas regulator will use the interrupter clause to shift the price tonight. The price of gas will stay the same. After th...
Steve MacArthur Mar 22, 2022
Time change in Atlantic Canada will depend on U.S.
There was some hope that the four premiers in Atlantic Canada would emerge from their March 21 meeting with a new plan for how we manage our kitchen clocks but the premiers said it would all depend on...
Derek Montague Mar 22, 2022
