Category Archives: News
Gas prices up in Halifax
The price of gas is up slightly in Halifax on Friday morning. It will now cost you at least $1.371 cents per litre to fill up on regular self-serve. That’s an overnight increase of six-tenths of...
Sep 17, 2021
Ontario Man Cycles To Raise Awareness Of Sudden Cardiac Arrest
An Ontario man is biking across Canada to raise awareness about an inherited cardiac disease that kills without warning. Adam Hoerdt’s wife Jackie died at the age of 31 from arrhythmogenic right...
Sep 16, 2021
The Alberta Crisis Dominates Election Discussion
In Saint John, New Brunswick, Conservative leader Erin O’Toole faced questions about the COVID-19 situation in Alberta as that province declares another public health emergency. He has previousl...
Sep 16, 2021
UPDATED: Erin O’Toole Stops In Saint John
The federal Conservative leader made his pitch to Atlantic Canadians during a campaign stop in Saint John on Thursday. Erin O’Toole acknowledged that his party has ground to make up in Atlantic ...
Sep 16, 2021
Police dish out $6K worth of COVID fines
Two women have been given tickets for not self isolating. Halifax police say they fined a 19-year-old and a 20-year-old for not following public health protocols. The younger woman was given two ticke...
Sep 16, 2021
Pfizer, Moderna Receive Full Health Canada Approval
Both the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines have been granted full approval for anyone 12 years of age or older. Pfizer was the first shot to be authorized in Canada on December 9, 2020, af...
Sep 16, 2021
RCMP: Autopsies confirm camper fire deaths not suspicious
Autopsies on the Amherst family killed in a camper fire show nothing suspicious. Six people including four children died in a fire in a remote area of Cumberland County on Sunday. RCMP say evidence an...
Sep 16, 2021
N.S. reports 34 new cases of COVID-19 (Sept 16)
Nova Scotia is reporting 34 new cases of COVID-19 and 20 recoveries. Twenty-six of the cases are in Northern Zone. All are close contacts of previously reported cases. There is a large cluster of link...
Sep 16, 2021
Cumberland-Colchester NDP candidate drops out over anti-Semitic Tweet
A shake up in the federal election race in northern Nova Scotia ahead of voters casting their ballots on Monday. The NDP has announced 18-year-old Dan Osborne has resigned as the candidate for Cumberl...
Sep 16, 2021
N.S. facing $341M deficit, net debt tops $16B
You might not be surprised to find out we spent a big dollars on health care over the last fiscal year. Updated figures from our province show we are facing a deficit of $341 million with most of it s...
Sep 16, 2021
