Nova Scotia is adding to its stock of public housing units for the first time in nearly three decades.

The provincial and federal governments plan to build 222 new units for families, individuals and low-income seniors in rural and urban communities.

The units will be built on provincially-owned lands in Kentville, Bridgewater and Truro, as well as in multiple locations in Cape Breton and the Halifax area.

The province says that the housing will have rents set to incomes and will be operated by the Nova Scotia Provincial Housing Agency.

 

 

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has apologized on behalf of Parliament for allowing a former Nazi to stand and be recognized by the House of Commons.

In his apology, Trudeau noted it was a mistake, one that has deeply embarrassed Parliament and Canada as a whole.

Yaroslav Hunka, a 98-year-old Ukrainian veteran living in Ontario, was invited by then-speaker Anthony Rota, before the Liberal government and Prime Minister’s Office had knowledge of Hunka’s past.

In Moscow, Russia’s foreign ministry said the incident adds credence to its justification for invading Ukraine, which it claims is being run by a Nazi regime.

 

 

The RCMP is investigating a serious ATV crash in Kempt. It happened late Tuesday afternoon near Highway 8 and RCMP officers arrived to find that the vehicle rolled while it was travelling on a logging road.  The driver of the ATV, a young person from Kempt, suffered serious injuries and was airlifted to hospital by LifeFlight.

 

 

Thursday at 12:00P.M. at Glasgow Square, the Town of New Glasgow will raise the flag for National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.  Everyone’s encouraged to attend.

 

 

Sixteen dogs that were removed as wildfires threatened the remote community of Hay River in the Northwest Territories have a new home in Nova Scotia.

The Nova Scotia S-P-C-A has accepted the 11 puppies and five adult dogs that were flown into Halifax from Alberta.

The animals had been living in Alberta in various foster homes and boarding facilities since an evacuation order was given in Hay River.

But with wildfires raging across western Canada no shelter could take the dogs, so a call was made to the Nova Scotia S-P-C-A, which agreed to accept them.