Young Man Charged for Child Pornography in Pictou County
TWestville Police have laid charges against a Young Offender following an investigation with assistance provided by the RCMP Internet Child Exploitation (ICE) Unit.
It took place Thursday, February 11th, as Westville Police officers arrested the young man and searched a home in Westville, with assistance from the RCMP’s Digital Forensic Unit.
The suspected Young Offender has been charged with the following offences:
• Possession of Child Pornography;
• Transmission of Child Pornography
The suspect has been released from custody on strict conditions and will appear in court at a later date.
Gas prices are up by 1.9 cents per litre this weel, with diesel higher in price by almost 4 cents. Your best self-serve price for regular gas is now $116.7 in our area, with self-serve diesel now posted at $114.2 per litre.
Two new cases of COVID-19 have been reported in the Central Zone in the latest update. Public Health says both cases are related to previous infections. There are 11 active cases of COVID-19 in the province. One person remains in intensive care.
The Sobeys on Wyse Road in Dartmouth has been added to a list of COVID-19 high risk sites across Nova Scotia, stemming from a 4-hour period on February 1st, which is one week prior to last Monday. Public Health says anyone worked at or visited the store from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. that evening should immediately book a COVID-19 test.
If you have symptoms of COVID-19 you are mandated to self-isolate while you wait for your test result.
A month-long slowdown in Canada’s COVID-19 vaccine deliveries should end next week, with the single biggest shipment of vaccines from Pfizer and BioNTech to date.
Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin is the military commander overseeing Canada’s vaccine distribution, says Pfizer has confirmed it will ship 400,000 doses to Canada starting Monday.
Over the next four weeks, Canada should get almost 1.8 million doses from Pfizer, and another 168,000 from Moderna. Close to 10-thousand of those doses should be here in Nova Scotia by next week.
A spokeswoman for Pfizer Canada says the upgrades to the company’s plant in Belgium are complete and production is back on track to meet Canada’s order for four million doses by the end of March.
Canada’s travel landscape is about to change with the federal government now approving Air Canada’s $190-million buy-out of Transat, after COVID-19 diminished the deal’s value.
Transport Minister Omar Alghabra announced the approval, by saying Ottawa has concluded the takeover is in the public interest. He says the federal government considered a range of factors, including levels of service, wider social and economic implications, the financial health of the air transportation sector, and competition. The pandemic was also cited as a factor when Montreal-based Transat noted it might not have been able to continue on its own because of the significant pandemic challenges
Netflix says it wants to get closer to Canada’s “Creative Community” and plans to open an office here aimed toward better content creation. Netflix co-CEO and chief content officer Ted Sarandos says the California-based company is still figuring out the office location, but they’re eyeing both Toronto and Vancouver. Sarandos says an office in Canada will allow Netflix executives to be closer to Canadian creators, so they can build relationships and field pitches. (Neflix-Image)
In the MHL….The Yarmouth Mariners defeated the Pictou County Weeks Crushers 5-2 in a game at home last night.
FREE ADMISSION AT MUSEUM OF INDUSTRY ON HOLIDAY MONDAY
The Museum of Industry in Stellarton is offering FREE Admission on Heritage Day. This year’s heritage honouree is Lt. Edward Francis Arab. Born of Lebanese immigrants in Halifax, and a graduate of Dalhousie University law school, Arab ended up opening his own practice. He was well known for accepting cases involving prejudice and racism. In 1938 helped to found the Canadian Lebanon Society, serving as their first president.
Then, in 1942 Arab volunteered to serve in the Second World War and was killed in action at age 29 in 1944. His life and contributions were celebrated in 1949 as a street was named after him in Halifax’s west end.
That free admission this Heritage Day Monday runs from 10am to 4pm. People can come free of charge to see uniforms worn by the North Nova Highlanders during the Second World War. Those are on loan for this event from the Pictou County Military Heritage Museum.
