Stellarton Police are investigating a fatal crash that occurred on Thursday morning in Stellarton. At 4:15 a.m. Stellarton Police, EHS and Stellarton Fire all responded to the single vehicle crash on Bridge Avenue, near MacKay Street. Police say that a vehicle, travelling westbound on Bridge Avenue, went off the road, struck a power pole and then a large tree. The 15-year-old driver was pronounced deceased at the scene. An investigator with the RCMP Provincial Collision Reconstructionist Unit attended the scene to assist with the investigation.
Gasoline and diesel prices both decreased overnight in Nova Scotia. Gasoline prices decreased by 4.0 cents per litre, putting the minimum pump price for regular self-serve gasoline at 152.9 cents pere litre in the local area. Diesel prices decreased by 3.3 cents per litre, putting the minimum pump price for diesel at 157.6 cents per litre locally.
The provincial government says it could be months before it reveals how many people are on the wait-list for a family doctor. The head of the provincial health authority says the government will release the data publicly once the 160-thousand people who were on the wait-list in June are contacted to see if they still need a family physician or primary care nurse practitioner. Karen Oldfield says the validating process will take months. The last time the wait-list was publicly updated was June 1st, when 160-thousand-200 people were on the list.
The Nova Scotia legislature has passed a bill declaring domestic violence an epidemic in the province, following an extraordinary reversal by Premier Tim Houston. The lightning-fast passage of the bill introduced Thursday by the opposition N-D-P came less than an hour after the premier told reporters he didn’t think the legislation was necessary. The bill’s passage also followed a tense conversation with four women from the private sector union Unifor who were advocating for the bill — and who had cornered Houston near a hallway elevator outside the legislative chamber. N-D-P Leader Claudia Chender says the idea was to legislate a recommendation to all levels of government from the commission of inquiry that investigated the 2020 Nova Scotia mass shooting.
A sports note, the Pictou County Weeks Crushers open their Maritime Junior Hockey League regular season tonight on the road in Yarmouth as they take on the Mariners.
