Two years after a man disguised as a Mountie killed 22 people in Nova Scotia, grieving people are still coming forward to get help from the province’s victim services program.
Kim Burton, a Justice Department manager, told an inquiry yesterday that in the weeks after the mass shooting the department faced challenges getting people to participate in the program, which offers counselling and other support services.
Last month, the inquiry released an interim report saying many of the individuals and families most affected by the tragedy had yet to receive the support they needed.
The commission has encouraged governmental and non-governmental agencies to move quickly to provide additional mental health, trauma and bereavement supports.
A Nova Scotia judge has declared that a provincial law that imposed a labour contract on teachers is unconstitutional.
The decision by Justice John Keith of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court comes five years after it was passed by the former Liberal government.
Keith says the four-year contract imposed in the 2017 law was significantly worse than a tentative agreement members of the teachers union had rejected.
The judge concludes this means the law violated the Charter guarantee of freedom of association, which the Supreme Court of Canada has said protects the right to meaningful collective bargaining.
New Glasgow Regional Police are investigating the theft of a large amount of copper wire at the Superior Propane business on North Main Street in Trenton. The theft occurred sometime over the weekend of June 11 and 12.
New Glasgow Regional Police have released photos as part of the investigation and are asking for the public’s help with identifying the person and vehicle of interest. We have posted those photos on our website. The investigation is ongoing.
The Public Health Agency of Canada is reporting a steadily declining number of COVID-19 cases, which is one of the reasons being cited for the federal government’s decision to suspend vaccine mandates for domestic and outbound international travellers.
The new rules — which come into effect on June 20th — will also see federally regulated workers cleared for a return to work despite vaccination status.
The Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation says total sales were up 3.5 per cent to 820.5-million dollars in its last fiscal year, with the biggest jump coming in cannabis sales.
The corporation says cannabis sales in 2021-22 increased 18.2 per cent from the previous year while beverage sales edged up 1.7 per cent.
But it says its profit decreased 2.1 per cent to 268.7-million dollars.
It says the decline occurred because of higher payroll and freight costs and because sales of cannabis and local products have lower margins compared with sales of other items.
