As Northumberland Ferries continues to provide service between Wood Islands and Caribou without the damaged MV Confederation, it has released a sailing schedule for today with the MV Saaremaa 1. The sailing schedule for today will see sailings from Caribou at 7:00am, 10:00am, 1:30pm and 5:00pm; and from Wood Islands at 8:30am,,11:45am and 3:15pm. Meanwhile, Northumberland Ferries says it will be moving the MV Confederation to a local shipyard — potentially as early as today. It believes the damage to the ship from Sunday’s collision with the wharf at Wood Islands has been limited to the bow visor — but that damage to the bow visor is considerable. The ferry company says it will not be a simple or quick repair — but the amount of time the repairs will take isn’t clear. Northumberland Ferries had said on Sunday that it would be at least a week or two.
The RCMP in Nova Scotia is warning of a scam that’s surfaced. It’s received reports of scammers targeting Nova Scotians with fraudulent heat pump offers. The scams often involve fake discounts, misleading financing options, or impersonating legitimate companies to steal personal information. Police remind you that if it feels like a scam, it probably is. You should research the company, avoid high-pressure sales tactics, and never share your personal financial information.
Two New Brunswick youths have been arrested after an emergency alert about someone carrying a gun. R-C-M-P say a 48-year-old man was found with gunshot wounds in Salisbury Monday night. An Alert Ready message was issued by New Brunswick RCMP warning of an armed person in a pickup truck in the Salisbury and Moncton area. Two young people were arrested in Salisbury and the alert was cancelled just after midnight, but police are still looking for the pickup truck.
The federal government says Nova Scotia’s privately owned electric utility needs money to cover higher costs from the delayed delivery of electricity from the Muskrat Falls hydroelectric plant in Labrador. Ottawa is negotiating a 500-million-dollar bailout for Nova Scotia Power saying without the money, the utility would have had to increase rates by 19 per cent over “the short term.” The C-E-O of Nova Scotia Power says the deal will keep rate increases limited to about the rate of inflation as costs are spread over a number of years. That’s once the deal is approved by the province’s energy regulator.
Some landlords say fixed-term leases allow property owners to recoup operating costs they otherwise can’t under Nova Scotia’s rent cap. Their comments to a legislative committee yesterday are in reaction to plans by the government to extend the five per cent cap on rental increases to the end of 2027. But opposition parties and housing activists say the bill’s failure to address fixed-term leases has created a loophole that allows large corporate landlords to boost rents past five per cent for new tenants. But smaller landlords told a committee Monday that they too benefit from fixed-term leases, which they said help them from losing money on their investment.
