On Saturday, the Nova Scotia RCMP responded to four off-road vehicle collisions in approximately ten hours.

The incidents occurred in Pictou, Lunenburg, Richmond, and Inverness counties.

It was about 10:50 p.m. when Pictou County District RCMP responded to a report of a snowmobile colliding with a tree near Loganville.

The snowmobile driver was not injured but was showing signs of being impaired.

The woman was arrested and provided breath samples that police say were nearly three times the legal limit.

She was later released from custody and will be facing Impaired related charges.

 

 

The RCMP is investigating incidents involving mannequins that have been hung from overpasses on Hwy. 101.

On Saturday at about 9:25 p.m., police responded to a report of a vehicle that had struck a mannequin hanging from a Hwy. 101 overpass in New Edinburgh.

The vehicle involved was an ambulance, and it was travelling on New Edinburgh Rd. when it struck the low-hanging mannequin.

The ambulance sustained significant damage to its windshield and could no longer be driven. Fortunately, the two paramedics and patient in the vehicle were not injured.

Officers removed the mannequin, which was dressed in orange clothing, from the guardrail of the overpass and saw that it was marked with “Justice for Vernon”.

RCMP believe the incident is connected to a similar incident with a mannequin hanging from a Highway 101 overpass in Little Brook on February 25th.

 

 

Protesters in Halifax are calling for an investigation into reports that an elementary school principal told six students of Palestinian descent to remove traditional clothing they had worn during a “cultural day.”

About 20 people rallied outside the Nova Scotia education minister’s office yesterday calling for an investigation into the incident.

A spokesperson for the six children of Palestinian descent at the school says that students were wearing a keffiyeh, a type of black-and-white scarf that he describes as a symbol of Palestinian culture and identity.

One relative told C-T-V that the principal told his nephew that the garment was “a sign of war.”

 

 

The Nova Scotia government has launched a new tourism campaign

called: Your Ocean Playground.

The campaign will feature the stories of a couple who will travel the length of the province’s 13-thousand kilometres of coastline.

The ads will be aimed at attracting visitors from  Ontario, Quebec, Connecticut, Maine and Massachusetts.

 

 

Voters in Prince Edward Island will head to the polls for a provincial election on Monday, April 3….6 months earlier than the fixed election date of October 2nd.  .

Premier Dennis King, leader of the Progressive Conservative Party, made the announcement last night at his nomination meeting.

At dissolution, the Progressive Conservatives held 15 seats, the Green Party held eight seats and the Liberals four.