Gasoline prices dropped in Nova Scotia overnight, while diesel prices went up. Gasoline prices decreased by 5.3 cents per litre to 165.5 cents per litre locally. Diesel prices increased 9.7 cents per litre to 199.9 cents per litre in the local area.
RCMP say an 84-year-old man is dead following the crash of a dump truck.
The collision occurred Wednesday on the Pictou Landing Road in Chance Harbour.
Police say the truck left the road and ended up in a ditch.
The driver, who was from Linacy, died at the scene.
Halifax’s police chief says he wasn’t aware about reports of a turf war between his police force and the R-C-M-P.
Dan Kinsella made the comments on the witness stand at the public inquiry into the Nova Scotia mass shooting, which is investigating how a gunman murdered 22 people over two days in April 2020.
A September 2021 report commissioned by the Mounties noted that R-C-M-P staff said in interviews there was an ongoing turf battle over operational control and funding between the Halifax police and the Nova Scotia R-C-M-P.
Kinsella says he knows Halifax’s model for an integrated police unit where R-C-M-P and regional police work together is not perfect.
Nova Scotia’s weekly update on COVID-19 shows the number of deaths and new hospital admissions due to the virus slowed in the past week.
The provincial dashboard shows eight people died due to COVID-19 in the week of August 16th to 22nd _ down from 11 the previous week.
New hospital admissions also dropped to 34 from 40 reported last Thursday.
Nova Scotia Heath says there were a total of 50 people with COVID-19 in hospital as of Tuesday, including eight in intensive care.
The Nova Scotia government says more than 230 Ukrainian nationals are in the process of getting approvals needed to work in the provincial health care system.
It says it’s working to streamline licensing and reduce barriers for Ukrainian health care professionals who’ve made the province their new home following Russia’s invasion of their homeland.
The province says in a release that it has a unique opportunity to engage highly qualified professionals from Ukraine in the health care sector.
It adds it’s implementing multiple strategies to enhance retention and recruitment in the health care workforce.
A trailblazing L-G-B-T-Q-plus activist in Nova Scotia, Gerald Veldhoven, died in Truro on Sunday at the age of 81.
He was a president for the Pictou County Centre for Sexual Health, he volunteered for the New Glasgow Pride committee and he wrote a weekly column about L-G-B-T-Q issues that was printed in several Nova Scotia newspapers.
The town of New Glasgow lowered its flags to half-mast to honour Veldhoven.
