The RCMP union is calling on Nova Scotia to overhaul the way it pays for policing services to ensure the force receives adequate, stable funding to deal with understaffing.

That’s one of 28 recommendations made by the National Police Federation to the public inquiry into the Nova Scotia mass shootings in April 2020 that claimed 22 lives.

The federation is also calling for more Mounties to be involved when there is a critical incident and for the province to adopt policing standards, which the provincial Justice Department is already working on.

 

 

Colchester County District RCMP have charged a young person in regards to a threats investigation involving the Bible Hill Junior High School in Bible Hill.

On Monday at about 11:45 a.m., RCMP received a report of a threat being made towards the school.

That threat had indicated that violence would occur on Wednesday at the school.

On Tuesday, RCMP executed a search warrant at a home on Brookside Rd. in Valley and arrested a 14-year-old.

They also located and seized documents and electronic devices.

The teen has been charged with Uttering Threats.

 

 

Senior officials with Nova Scotia’s Health Department were unable to answer a number of questions about the state of the province’s emergency health system during a legislature committee meeting.

Nova Scotia, like much of the country, is struggling with overcrowding and staffing shortages in hospitals.

During yesterday’s meeting officials were unable to provide an estimate for how long Nova Scotians are waiting in emergency departments or how often ERs are closed.

The committee chair is asking the Health Department and health authority to respond to upwards of 10 unanswered questions by next week.

 

 

Federal Attorney General David Lametti says he prepared the recommendation that the government should enact the Emergencies Act only a few days after the “Freedom Convoy” protesters arrived in Ottawa.

Testifying Wednesday to the inquiry into the government’s use of the Act, Lametti says he wanted to ensure all options were available to deal with the protesters.

Lametti testified he doesn’t view the demonstration that was staged in Ottawa as a legitimate protest.