Federal Infrastructure Minister Dominic LeBlanc wants Nova Scotia and New Brunswick to apply for about 150 million dollars to protect the land link between the provinces from climate change-related flooding.
LeBlanc says he has written to both governments to say money is available and the deadline to apply to the disaster mitigation fund is July 19th.
Ottawa can pay up to half the 301-million dollar potential cost to protect the Chignecto Isthmus.
Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston and New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs say talks are still underway on how much each government should pay.
A salt marsh restoration project in Pictou Landing will receive support from the Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation’s community investment fund.
The For the Good of Our Community Fund was established with the Liquor Corporation’s supplier partners to provide financial support to organizations that help build healthy and sustainable communities.
This year, 11 charities and non-profit organizations across Nova Scotia that support community wellbeing and the environment will receive financial support from the fund.
One of the recipients is Clean Foundation.
Through its Clean Coasts program, the grant will fund restoration of an altered salt marsh in Pictou Landing First Nation.
No charges have been laid after a firearms complaint at a Windsor high school.
R-C-M-P say the school was put on a hold and secure Monday after reports that four youths had brought a firearm to the School.
The Mounties say officers responding to the scene found a pellet gun inside a car in the school’s parking lot.
All four youths were interviewed by officers and released without charge after it was determined that no firearm was brought into the school and that no one had been threatened.
A defiant Donald Trump has called his indictment on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records “ridiculous” and is seeking to use the charges to galvanize supporters.
The former U-S president has returned to his home in Palm Beach, Florida after appearing in a Manhattan courthouse to plead not guilty to 34 felony charges.
In a lengthy address to his supporters Tuesday evening, Trump slammed Alvin Bragg, the lead prosecutor in his case.
