The Bank of Canada is paying close attention to yesterday’s inflation figures.

Statistics Canada says higher gasoline prices drove Canada’s inflation rate to four per cent in August, making it the second month in a row inflation has risen.

Earlier this month, the central bank decided to hold its key interest rate steady as the economy showed signs of slowing.

However, it still expects inflation to remain stubbornly high and to even rise in the short-term which could result in more interest-rate moves.

Nova Scotia’s inflation rate stood at 4.7 percent in August, up from July’s 3.4 percent.

 

 

RCMP say a 64-year-old man was killed in a collision as he crossed a roadway on a riding lawn mower.

Police say the man on the lawn tractor was crossing the road in Debert on Sunday when he was struck by a car.

The man was pronounced dead at the scene.

The 60-year-old woman driving the car was not injured.

 

 

More financial support is coming for first responders across Nova Scotia.

Eighty organizations will receive grants totalling almost $1.5 million through the Province’s Emergency Services Provider Fund, which is available to fire departments, ground search and rescue organizations and hazardous materials teams.

The fund helps organizations with the cost of upgrading equipment used in response to fires or other emergencies.

The New Glasgow Fire Department is receiving $20,000 in funding through the fund.

 

 

R-C-M-P in Nova Scotia say they are preparing a formal apology for the force’s role in excessive street checks of Black citizens.

The force says it will be consulting with the African Nova Scotian community before doing so.

The Mounties say the apology and a follow-up “action plan” is expected to be complete by next year.

The Halifax regional police chief offered a formal apology to the Black community for street checks and other historical injustices in November 2019.

 

 

The former chief executive and chair of the Sobeys grocery store chain, David Sobey, has died.

The Stellarton native was 92.

Michael Medline, the chief executive of Sobeys parent company, Empire, calls the man an incredible retailer, business leader and mentor.

Sobey was appointed to the Order of Canada in 1995.

 

 

A sports note…In the Maritime Junior Hockey league, The Pictou County Weeks Crushers are on the road playing in Amherst at 7:30pm.