Police are investigating a fatal single-vehicle crash.

RCMP say an S-U-V was travelling on Highway 311 near North River in Colchester County yesterday when it veered into a ditch.

The driver was the only person in the vehicle.Their identity was not released but police confirm he was a 37-year-old man from Old Barns.

 

 

The president of the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians says the pressures on Nova Scotia’s health system are as bad as they seem.

Dr. Mike Howlett says the state of health care, particularly emergency medicine, is at a crisis level.

Howlett says long wait times and staffing shortages stem from decades of poor planning.

He says province has failed to adjust for a growing and aging population.

 

 

The two main opposition parties in Nova Scotia are slamming Premier Tim Houston’s record on health care after his first year in power.

Both the Liberals and New Democrats issued statements on Wednesday saying the governing Progressive Conservatives have not done enough to address doctor shortages, surgery delays and emergency room closures.

Premier Tim Houston issued a statement saying a record number of doctors have come to Nova Scotia over the past year — and he pointed to increased wages for continuing-care assistants, adding

200 nursing seats for students across the province and offering jobs to every nurse graduating in Nova Scotia.

 

 

A Nova Scotia daycare operator says staff shortages and rising expenses are causing a crisis in child care.

Bonnie Minard says she is struggling to recruit early childhood educators for her Halifax-area daycare, and she’s is worried about the increasing demand for care in September, when enrolment typically jumps.

The province has promised daycares a wage compensation program this fall to improve the pay of early childhood educators.

This program is tied to the 605-million-dollar deal between the province and the federal government to create 10-dollar-a-day child-care spaces.

 

 

New data from a Toronto-based research group shows New Brunswick had the highest rate of food insecurity in Atlantic Canada last year.

Proof says 19 per cent of New Brunswick households worried about whether they’d have enough to eat last year.

Nova Scotia had a food insecurity rate of 17.7 per cent of households.

 

 

Five wind projects have been selected by Nova Scotia in the province’s largest ever procurement for low-cost renewable energy.

Each of those projects are majority-owned by at least one Mi’kmaw community, and they’re expected to generate approximately 12 per cent of Nova Scotia’s total energy consumption.

The five projects selected include Weavers Mountain Wind near Marshy Hope and  developed by SWEB Development and Glooscap First Nation.