School support staff in Nova Scotia will soon be in a legal position to strike if they are unable to reach an agreement with the province over wages.

The Nova Scotia School Board Council of Unions says its 54-hundred members across the province could walk as of April 21st at 12:02 a-m.

This includes bus drivers, cleaners, maintenance and tradespeople, along with teachers and teaching assistants.

Union chair Chris Melanson says they have no choice but to walk because they can’t survive on these wages any longer.

 

 

Bible Hill RCMP is asking for the public’s help in locating 37-year-old James Lawrence Lindsay.

He was last seen at approximately 2 p.m. last Thursday (April 6).

Lindsay has black hair and green eyes.

He’s approximately 5’10, 170 lbs.

When last seen, he was wearing jeans and a beige jacket.

He was also carrying a black backpack and could be wearing a ball cap or toque.

Lindsay has a tattoo sleeve on his right arm, and “Lindsay” and “Macphee” are tattooed on his forearms.

“Belmont Outlaw” is tattooed on his back.

Anyone with information on the whereabouts of James Lindsay is asked to contact Bible Hill RCMP or Nova Scotia Crime Stoppers.

 

 

A missing boater whose body was found in Eel Lake Sunday night was from Halifax.

R-C-M-P say they first responded to calls about a boat collision on Friday afternoon and learned that a 14-foot-boat travelling through a narrow section of the lake had crashed into a stationary boat.

The impact of the collision sent the two occupants of the 14-foot boat into the water, and police say neither was wearing a life-jacket.

One man was rescued by other boaters immediately after the collision.

 

 

A workshop is being held later this week at Mount Allison University to look at the legacy of the landmark Supreme Court of Canada fisheries decisions in the Donald Marshall Junior case.

The school’s politics department is hosting the gathering on Friday and Saturday at the Purdy Crawford Centre for the Arts in Sackville, New Brunswick.

Indigenous leaders, academics, policymakers, and students will reflect on the decisions, which affirmed First Nations’ treaty right to fish in pursuit of a moderate livelihood, while giving Ottawa continued rights to regulate.

This workshop is open to the public and interested individuals can register online.