Category Archives: News

Atlantic Canadian Truckers Join ‘Freedom Convoy’ On Thursday
Truckers from Atlantic Canada will soon join a national “freedom convoy” headed for Ottawa. On Thursday, truckers from the four provinces will meet in Moncton, N.B., before departing for t...
Robert Lothian Jan 25, 2022

COVID-19: N.S. reports 92 in hospital, 5 deaths (Jan 22-24)
Nova Scotia is reporting 15 new hospital admissions and seven discharges. There is also reporting five deaths related to COVID-19: — a woman in her 60s in Central Zone — a man in his 70s i...
Steve MacArthur Jan 24, 2022

Conservatives Repeat Calls To Cancel CPP Increase
The federal government plans to increase premiums for the Canadian Pension Plan this month and the official opposition has once again come out against it. The Conservative Party of Canada is repeating...
Jakob Postlewaite Jan 24, 2022

NCC: Nature Helping Canadians During the Pandemic
Many Canadians are spending more time outdoors according to the Nature Conservancy of Canada. A national public opinion poll conducted through Ipsos Public Affairs found 82 percent of respondents are ...
Jakob Postlewaite Jan 24, 2022

Trucking Alliance Denounces Highway Protests
The Canadian Trucking Alliance is condemning protests on public roads over Ottawa’s vaccine mandate for truckers. It comes as convoys of truckers start to make their way to the nation’s ca...
News Jan 24, 2022

New Scholarship For NS Francophone Health Students
Francophone health sciences students in Nova Scotia have a chance to get a new scholarship. It’s being offered by Rseau Sant - Nouvelle-cosse with support from the Office of the Minister of Acad...
Kevin Northup Jan 24, 2022

Truckers slow down traffic at N.S.-N.B. border to protest vaccine mandates
A major highway was brought to a crawl in Nova Scotia over the weekend as truckers protested vaccine mandates. The convoy of trucks took to the roads near Enfield and rolled to the border with New Bru...
Skye Bryden-Blom Jan 24, 2022

Truck Driver Shortage Escalating
There was a desperate need for truck drivers two years ago, and now things are even worse. Jean-Marc Picard, executive director of the Atlantic Province Trucking Association, says it was somewhat mana...
News Jan 24, 2022

85 people in hospital because of COVID-19
There are 85 patients in the hospital receiving care because of COVID-19. Eleven are in intensive care. They range in age between 23 to 100 years old. Public Health says there are two other groups of ...
Skye Bryden-Blom Jan 24, 2022

Higher than normal absenteeism could affect students’ chance to graduate
If you’ve thought about keeping your kids home from school, you’re not alone. Premier Tim Houston estimated Wednesday as much as eight per cent of families kept their kids home in the firs...
B. Jack Morse Jan 24, 2022





