Prime Minister Mark Carney has asked provinces to return U-S alcohol to their stores as Canada finalizes a trade deal with the United States.
The U-S had cited the booze ban, Canada’s dairy supply management system and tariff-free auto quotas as prime reasons for threatening 50 per cent tariffs on an array of Canadian goods.
Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston says it was a specific ask from the prime minister that came directly out of the negotiating table.
He says he is optimistic about the deal and that the broad strokes of it seem really good for Canada.
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Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston is in Alberta this week to talk with energy executives. Houston plans to deliver a speech to The Canadian Energy Executive Association’s annual conference today. The three-day conference is being held in Banff. Houston’s office confirmed he is travelling to the conference with his chief of staff, Nicole LaFosse Parker.
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The RCMP have charged a woman with multiple driving-related offences after receiving several reports of unsafe driving in Colchester and Pictou counties. On Tuesday afternoon, RCMP began receiving calls about a possible impaired driver in the Londonderry area. The driver refused to stop when police attempted a traffic stop on Hwy. 104 and continued eastbound. Another attempted traffic stop in Pictou County with a spike belt failed. Soon after, officers responded to a crash alert and found the vehicle in the ditch on Jollytown Rd. near Upper Brookside Rd. in East Mountain. A child who was in the vehicle at the time of the crash was taken to hospital by EHS with non-life-threatening injuries. The driver, a 28-year-old Onslow Mountain woman, was arrested and is charged with seven offences including Impaired Driving; Dangerous Driving; and Flight from Police.
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Nova Scotia Power officials say they don’t know why a digital copy of almost all customer information collected over three decades was not automatically deleted as intended. Banking information, social insurance numbers and other data belonging to hundreds of thousands of customers, was accessed in a March 2025 cyberattack on the company. Executive Blake Williams says that Nova Scotia Power has mechanisms to automatically delete certain data. That didn’t happen in this case, and he said the utility isn’t sure why.
