Shortly after midnight Saturday morning, New Glasgow Regional Police received a report of a male waving a machete at a business on Westville Road in New Glasgow. While the man was waving a machete outside the business, the staff quickly locked the doors. However, the man got in by smashing the front-side door, and once inside, he immediately fled the scene. Staff took precaution and went into a shelter and place, where no one was injured. Police immediately arrived and located the suspect nearby where he was arrested and taken into custody. Police seized a machete and a pickup truck, which was idling and parked in the middle of the road. The 42-year-old man from Pictou County was charged with Assault with a Weapon; Possession of a Weapon Dangerous; Mischief; Operation of a Motor Vehicle While Prohibited. He was remanded into custody and will be in Provincial Court in Pictou today.
A new community centre has officially opened in Portapique. Local residents say the opening will mark a new chapter for a place that is still healing after a neighbour disguised as a Mountie started a 13-hour rampage that led to the deaths of 22 people in April 2020. Premier Tim Houston announced that the Portapique Community Centre represents the community’s journey of healing and harmony. Houston announced the province had contributed 748-thousand dollars to the County of Colchester, and another 425-thousand dollars to trustees in the community who led the building project.
A settlement agreement between the owners of the Northern Pulp mill and the Nova Scotia government has been approved by a British Columbia Supreme Court judge. Under the deal approved Friday by Justice Shelley Fitzpatrick, mill owner Paper Excellence has withdrawn a 450 million dollar lawsuit against the province and will abandon plans to reopen its idled operation in Pictou County. The B-C-based company will also begin a feasibility study into a potential new mill operation near Liverpool, a process that could take six to nine months. Northern Pulp closed mill operations in 2020 after it failed to meet the province’s environmental requirements for a new effluent treatment plant.
Nova Scotia is launching three so-called “campaign schools” ahead of this fall’s municipal elections.
The object is to encourage more people to run for office and learn about how to run an election campaign.
Participants will be able to have the cost of child care reimbursed after the session.
Halifax Regional Municipality councillor Lisa Blackburn says she’s a proud graduate of a previous campaign school, and says they’re a great opportunity for people to learn what’s involved in running for office.
