LOCAL POLICE SAY KNIFE-ROBBERY SUSPECT IS A MAN, DESCRIPTION AND PHOTO BELOW
New Glasgow Regional Police are asking if you can help in the wake of an armed robbery in Trenton on Thursday night. Police say a man entered the Needs Convenience Store on Main Street around 11:30 p.m. Evidence shows he pulled a knife, demanded cash from the employee and took off with some cash. The man police are looking for is described as standing around 6′ tall, weighing between 180 and 200 lbs and wearing a mask, dark grey jacket, grey jogging pants, a dark red or burgundy hoodie and black and white sneakers. If you can help, you’re asked to call New Glasgow Regional Police or Crime Stoppers, which is 1-800-222-TIPS. (NGRP Photo)
EIGHTEEN NEW NOVA SCOTIA COVID CASES SINCE MID-WEEK – ONE CASE AT HALIFAX SHIPYARD. PREMIER AND DOCTOR STRANG OUTLINE NEXT STEPS
Nova Scotia’s COVID caseload is growing. With 18 new cases of COVID-19 being reported across the province, one of those cases closed down the Halifax Shipyard facility on the Halifax side of the harbour on Friday morning. New restrictions are now in place and available on the Nova Scotia Public Health websites.
Premier Rankin says Nova Scotians, with or without symptoms need to start getting tested often because it’s the key to knocking down the current outbreak, even if you don’t have symptoms. The Premier says to do that, you only need to book an appointment at one of the primary assessment centres or drop into a pop-up testing site. (see below)
Appointments can be booked at https://covid-self-assessment.novascotia.ca/ by choosing the asymptomatic option. Rapid testing pop-up sites continue to be set up around the province as well. More information on testing can be found at
https://www.nshealth.ca/coronavirustesting .
Visit https://covid-self-assessment.novascotia.ca/ to do a self-assessment if in the past 48 hours you have had any symptoms of COVID.
The latest exposure site list is found using our website link, http://nshealth.ca/covid-exposures
HEALTH CANADA APPROVES ANOTHER VACCINE FOR CANADIANS
Health Canada has approved the COVID-19 vaccine from AstraZeneca, the third to be given the green light for national use. Canada has pre-ordered 20 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, which was co-developed by researchers at the University of Oxford. This country will also receive up to 1.9 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine through the global vaccine-sharing initiative known as COVAX by the end of June. (Cdn Press)
STANFIELD’S PLANT IN TRURO HIT WITH LAYOFFS
The Stanfield Clothing plant in Truro has lost out on a COVID-related PPE contract, despite delivering for the federal government ahead of schedule. Company President Jon Stanfield tells our newsroom he’s not giving up. As a result, he’s still speaking to federal officials about the company’s reputation for quickly ramping up and coming to the country’s rescue with a brand-new gown-sewing division last year. Stanfield says the loss of the most recent contract will mean 150 people being laid off. He says that leaves about 220 people still on the payroll.
LIBEL AND IDENTITY THEFT CHARGES LAID AGAINST LOCAL MAN OVER KIJIJI ADVERTISEMENT OVER POLICE DECALS, ETC
After a two-month long investigation, New Glasgow Police have laid four charges against a man in his late-4’s they arrested in Linacy this week. The 4 official charges are Identity Fraud and Defamatory Libel.
NGRP received a complaint in January, that another person’s identity was used to post an ad on Kijiji looking to purchase NG Regional Police decals and police package items, for a for a 2018 Ford Explorer.
They received a second complaint that another person’s, identity was used in making defamatory comments using Google Review. The two victims and the suspect are known to each other.
The man was arrested in Linacy at 9:20 am this past Wednesday, where officers also seized electronic items. The 47-year-old man goes to court on May 31st in Pictou on 4 charges. (The actual Kijiji Ad is picture above, compliments of New Glasgow Regional Police)
The Criminal Definition of Defamatory Libel is below.
Section 298 (1) A defamatory libel is matter published, without lawful justification or excuse, that is likely to injure the reputation of any person by exposing him to hatred, contempt, or ridicule, or that is designed to insult the person of or concerning whom it is published.
MILITARY SCANDALS EXPAND
We hearing more details on why Canada’s new top military commander, Admiral Art McDonald, has voluntarily stepped aside while he’s investigated. Word is that he was involved in a situation with a female subordinate aboard the HMCS Montreal ten years ago, and that has promoted National Defence Investigators to take over the situation.
Local gas prices are up 4.1 cents per litre this week.
Your best price for regular self-serve is now $123.5 per litre in the local pricing zone. Diesel prices are now $118.3, up by 2.1 cents per litre.
“BUTTERGATE” EXPANDS AS FARMERS FEAR CONSUMER BACKLASH
The recent discovery that palm oil is given to Canadian Dairy Cows in flake, pellet and micropill form to boost butterfat is creating more headlines. Over the past few years, a number of studies have shown that processed Palm Oil has been proven to encourage the spread of cancer. That has Canadian Dairy farmers scrambling to get rid of it in their butter before they lose their share of the market. It’s a market that’s been building up during the pandemic, as more people bake with it. Sylvain Charlebois at Dalhousie University and others say the way to avoid palm oil in your butter, for now, is to look for organic butter and the stuff that’s produced by grass-fed cattle. And the group known as the Dairy Farmers of Canada is telling its farmers to eliminate the palm oil supplements their cattle have been fed until more is proven.
Provincial Courts across the province have extended payment deadlines for summary offence tickets yet again…this time by an additional 90 days. It’s a response to keeping COVID cases down by getting people to avoid Nova Scotia courthouses.
The directive was first issued in March of last year, and has been extended several times since.
Summary offence tickets and other court fines can be paid online, but despite that, the extension is meant for everyone accused.
CUMBERLAND-COLCHESTER TORIES ADD A NAME TO NOMINATION LIST
A Truro doctor has added his name to the list of people vying for the Conservative Party nomination in Cumberland-Colchster. Dr. Stephen Ellis is Covid Lead for the Northern Health Zone, and thinks Health, Economics and Demographics are key challenges. As a father and grandfather in the Truro area for 22 years, Ellis says he knows the riding of Cumberland- Colchester well, and wants to succeed current MP Lenore Zann when the PM calls the next election.
