There was no change overnight in Nova Scotia in the prices of regular gasoline or diesel. The minimum pump price for regular self-serve gasoline remains 154.4 cents per litre in the local area. The minimum pump price for diesel is still 172.3 cents per litre locally. The price of premium gasoline did decrease overnight by 1.1 cents per litre.
Nova Scotia is set to receive disaster recovery funding from the federal government. The Emergency Preparedness Minister says the province will receive close to 67-million-dollars in funding through the Disaster Financial Assistance Arrangements program. The money is intended to help with response and recovery costs that came from wildfires and extreme rainfall and flooding last year, as well as from 2019’s storm Dorian. Last year turned out to be one of the worst wildfire seasons Nova Scotia has ever seen, causing extensive damages while forcing more than 16-thousand people from their homes.
A lawyer representing a Mi’kmaq band in its battle with Ottawa over lobster harvest rights says a deal is close at hand. Ronald Pink told a Nova Scotia Supreme Court judge Thursday that Sipekne’katik First Nation’s mediation over its treaty-based fishery off the province’s southwestern coast is “moving to a conclusion.” Pink was seeking a delay in a lawsuit launched by the band in seeking a declaration that federal regulations infringe on their treaty right to fish. While band members have said their “moderate livelihood” fishery outside of the regular season is permitted by a 1999 Supreme Court of Canada decision, non-Indigenous commercial fishers say the practice threatens stocks while failing to recognize the courts previously maintained Ottawa’s right to regulate.
Mike Savage will be sworn in as Nova Scotia’s Lieutenant Governor today in Halifax.
The swearing-in ceremony will take place in the Red Chamber at Province House.
Savage was most recently mayor of Halifax and held office for 12 years.
He replaces Arthur LeBlanc, who was appointed as Lieutenant Governor in 2017.
