Antigonish County District RCMP have charged a 27-year-old man with multiple driving offences after he failed to stop for police on several occasions.
On Friday, at approximately 6:20p.m., RCMP officers from Colchester District tried to stop a vehicle traveling at 173 km/h in a 110 km/h zone on Highway 104. Other attempts by RCMP in Pictou County, Antigonish County and Inverness District to stop the vehicle failed, and police say the vehicle was clocked at 218kh at one point. Police also set up a roadblock at the Canso Causeway, but the driver tried to ram into three police officers while trying to evade police and also collided with two vehicles before speeding away. No one was injured. A spike belt was later deployed successfully, but failed to stop the driver and vehicle. Eventually, the vehicle was found in Antigonish and police quickly located the driver and arrested him, a 27-year old Shelburne man who is now facing numerous charges.
Nova Scotia’s opposition parties are scathing in their assessment of proposed legislation that would extend the government’s five per cent cap on rent increases until the end of 2027. N-D-P Leader Claudia Chender calls the current rent cap “fundamentally useless,” saying it does little to help people who are struggling to keep up with the cost of living. Chender says the legislative changes do nothing to address a problem with fixed-term leases, which she says are being used as a loophole by large corporate landlords to get around the rent cap by boosting rents that are charged to new tenants. Liberal housing critic Braedon Clark is expressing disappointment that a compliance and enforcement unit will not be created.
The R-C-M-P in Nova Scotia is apologizing to African Nova Scotians for the force’s past use of street checks that did lasting harm to both individuals and communities.
Assistant commissioner Dennis Daley issued the apology on the weekend in North Preston, a predominantly Black community northeast of Halifax. Street checks — sometimes known as carding — are now banned in Nova Scotia and involved police randomly stopping citizens to record their personal information and store it electronically.
A provincially commissioned study released in 2019 condemned the practice used by the Halifax Regional Police and Mounties, and found Black citizens were five times more likely to be stopped than white citizens.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will need to present quite the plan to wipe away the strained appearance when he meets with his caucus in British Columbia.
Several Liberal MPs have privately and publicly demanded Trudeau present a plan to revive the party’s chances of winning or step down as leader.
Liberal political fortunes did nothing but worsen over this week, with the abrupt departure of the N-D-P confidence and supply agreement and the resignation of the Liberals’ national campaign director.
