Mounties in Sipekne’katik First Nation are seeking a woman who is a person of interest in a firearms complaint, whom they had earlier warned may be “on foot” with a handgun in the community.  R-C-M-P in the Mi’kmaq community had issued a public alert for the 27-year-old just after 7 p-m local time Sunday, but cancelled that alert just before 10 p-m. 

Investigators say the incident started inside a house on Dowie Road earlier Sunday evening in the First Nation.   

In an update later Sunday night, investigators said they searched the home and did not find evidence of a gun being present or discharged, and that no one was injured in the home.

 

The Nova Scotia budget does little to help those struggling with affordability according to some housing advocates.

The fiscal document tabled last Thursday commits 21.6 million dollars for one-thousand new rent supplements and 8.2 million to assist emergency and overnight shelters.

There is no money to create new public housing.

Hannah Wood, of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, says public housing should be a top priority with as many as 874 people currently experiencing chronic homelessness in the Halifax area alone.

 

Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador are considering electrifying their school bus fleets.

The province of Nova Scotia issued a tender last week on behalf of the Council of Atlantic Ministers of Education and Training for a feasibility study of electric school buses.

The tender says the “Atlantic provinces have mainly purchased diesel, gasoline, and propane buses,” in the past but are now considering the feasibility of electric vehicles.

P-E-I already has electric vehicles in its fleet.

 

Nova Scotia Health says it has started shipping replacement Naloxone kits to pharmacies after receiving them from its supplier.

The health authority advised the public last week that some take home kits didn’t have doses of the drug needed to reverse the effects of opioid overdose.

It says a complete kit contains two doses of Naloxone in a pill bottle, two syringes, a breathing barrier, medical gloves and instructions in a protective case.

Officials say all kits identified without the critical dose of Naloxone will be destroyed and they advise any people who have the incomplete kits to return them to their local pharmacy and to ask for a replacement.