Day: June 19, 2024

Transport Canada has started the process to rescind its approval for the Dartmouth Cove infill, a project that faced  major opposition from a neighbourhood group, the local councillor and the member of Parliament for the area. Darren Fisher, the Liberal MP for Dartmouth-Cole Harbour, announced the move in a Facebook post on Wednesday afternoon and Transport Canada confirmed it … Read More “Transport Canada begins process to rescind approval for Dartmouth Cove infill” »

Nova Scotia’s Department of Education has promised to accelerate its timeline on improving policies related to violence in schools, including its provincial school code of conduct.  Deputy minister Elwin LeRoux told members of the public accounts committee on Wednesday morning that a rough draft of the updated code of conduct policy should be ready by … Read More “N.S. aims to move faster to address school violence following auditor general report” »

A 58-year-old lobster dealer with a long and infamous past in southwest Nova Scotia has been handed five years in prison for defrauding a fisheries company of what the prosecutor in the case says was more than a million dollars. Terry Banks, a Brooklyn, N.S., man with a prior record for large-scale fraud, was sentenced … Read More “Lobster dealer sentenced to 5 years in prison for large fraud” »

Police say first responders pulled the body of a 59-year-old man from the water off Newfoundland’s Bonavista Peninsula on Tuesday, after he didn’t return home from a fishing trip. RCMP were notified just after 5:30 p.m. about a small fishing boat that had washed up on shore in Sweet Bay, N.L., about 240 kilometres northwest … Read More “Body of 59-year-old man pulled from water off Newfoundland’s Bonavista Peninsula” »

A heat dome that is bringing extreme temperatures to a large swath of eastern North America will peak across Nova Scotia over the next two days. Some heat records will likely be broken in Nova Scotia as high temperatures climb into the low to mid 30s for most areas on Wednesday and Thursday, with “cooler” … Read More “Heat wave set to peak Wednesday and Thursday in Nova Scotia” »

Larry Thomas walks to the edge of a piece of forest in Hammonds Plains, where he’d hoped by now to see shovels in the ground.  “We’re having a hell of a time getting started,” said Thomas, a retired real estate broker now working with a new non-profit organization, One World Building Association. Last June, the province … Read More “N.S. is offering land for affordable housing. Some say there is a catch” »

A New Brunswick beverage business is accusing a Halifax brewery of screwing up the recipe for tens of thousands of cans of beer and jeopardizing the company’s future, according to court documents. Lawyers for Think Fermentation, which operates as Think Brewing, said in a statement of claim filed in the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia … Read More “Halifax brewery facing lawsuit for allegedly botching 59,000 cans of beer” »

A Lower Sackville, N.S., man is facing several charges for allegedly driving more than 80 km/h over the posted speed limit while impaired last week. According to an RCMP news release, an officer spotted a motorcycle travelling 152 km/h in a 70 km/h zone on Beaver Bank Road around 11:10 p.m. on June 11. They … Read More “N.S. man charged for allegedly driving 80 km/h over speed limit while impaired” »