Ferry service between Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island won’t be operational until at least Wednesday, following a fire last week in the engine room of the MV Holiday Island.

Regular service won’t resume while divers are conducting recovery operations in the water and environmental containment booms are in place.

 

The company suspects a seawater cooling system was compromised during the fire and is letting in more water into the boat’s engine room. 

 Divers returned to the water to investigate that issue yesterday.

Marie-Helene Roy, with the Transportation Safety Board of Canada, said investigators were able to get on board the ferry Sunday but stayed away from the engine room to avoid reigniting the fire. 

They hope investigators can get access to the engine room Tuesday.

 

The Mountie in charge of the investigation into the Nova Scotia mass shooting says it was a “no-brainer” for him to withhold details of the killer’s guns nine days after the rampage.

Chief Supt. Darren Campbell had stated that RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki criticized him for not providing the gun details during a press conference on April 28th 2020, saying she had promised the Prime Minister’s Office the information would be released in connection with “pending gun control legislation.”

Campbell told the inquiry that as a veteran homicide investigator, he was firmly opposed to releasing information about the guns possessed by the killer.

However some gun control experts have argued the release wouldn’t have had a significant impact on the investigation and would have allowed for public debate on the necessity of added gun control.

 

Pope Francis has issued a public apology for the role that the Catholic Church played in Canada’s residential school system, calling it a “deplorable evil” following his visit to the former site of the Ermineskin Indian Residential School in Maskwacis, Alberta.

He apologized for the involvement the Catholic Church had in the residential schools and asked for forgiveness to a crowd of indigenous community members and residential school survivors. 

The apology was delivered in Spanish, the Pope’s first language, and translated into English by a priest, with translations also provided in several Indigenous languages.

The apology ended with the Pope returning the child-sized moccasins that were given to him at the Vatican meeting in March by Marie-Anne Day Walker-Pelletier, a retired chief of Okanese First Nation in Saskatchewan.

He said the moccasins had served for the past four months as a reminder of his sense of “sorrow, indignation and shame.”