R-C-M-P are confirming two children who disappeared almost four weeks ago from their home on Gairloch Road in Lansdowne Station were last seen in public with family members on May 1st – the day before they were reported missing. The confirmation is important because police were previously told six-year-old Lilly Sullivan and four-year-old Jack Sullivan were at school on April 29th and were kept home in Lansdowne Station until they went missing on May 2nd. Police say they are asking the public for more video footage from the area to help with their investigation. An extensive ground and air search for the children covered more than five square kilometres of the hilly, densely-wooded area surrounding their home.
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At about 6:00am on Wednesday, the RCMP safely arrested a man and a woman at a home on Picken Street in Westville. About an hour earlier, RCMP said a section of Picken Street had been closed off by police as the RCMP was executing a warrant with the assistance of the Stellarton and Westville Police Departments, but that there was no threat to public safety. No further details have been released to this point.
The Nova Scotia government says it can’t lay charges in relation to the origins of a 2023 wildfire in the western suburbs of Halifax.
The Department of Natural Resources says it had up to two years to lay charges under the Forests Act, but determined there wasn’t sufficient evidence to secure a conviction.
Last December, an R-C-M-P investigation determined no criminality in the cause of the wildfire, and the file was passed to the province.
Last August, Natural Resources Minister Tory Rushton said investigators knew the location of the original fire but needed more evidence to lay charges.
The federal privacy commissioner has launched an investigation into a recent ransomware attack at Nova Scotia Power.
The attack led to the theft of personal information belonging to 280-thousand customers of the private electric utility.
Nova Scotia Power confirmed last week that hackers stole the data and have published it on the dark web.
The Privacy commissioner says the investigation is looking at steps the company has taken to contain the breach, notify its customers and reduce risks such as fraud and identity theft.
U-S President Donald Trump hit a major legal barrier for his plan to realign global trade after a Federal Court blocked both sweeping “Liberation Day” tariffs and the fentanyl-related duties against Canada and Mexico.
The U-S Court of International Trade says Trump doesn’t have the authority to impose tariffs on nearly every country under the International Economic Emergency Powers Act of 1977.
The act is a national security statute that gives the U-S president authority to control economic transactions after declaring an emergency.
The ruling from the three-judge panel at the New York-based Federal Court said any interpretation of the act “that delegates unlimited tariff authority is unconstitutional.”
