Queen Elizabeth the Second’s coffin has been on public display at a cathedral in the Scottish capital of Edinburgh before it is flown by the Royal Air Force to London and taken to Buckingham Palace.

A line has already started forming to view the Queen’s coffin when she lies in state in London, even though that won’t start till Wednesday evening.

Security staff are preparing for millions of people to pay their respects to the late monarch, whose coffin will be in London’s Westminster Hall until her state funeral on September 19th.

Nova Scotia’s courts have let lawyers know that going forward they’ll need to change their documents to refer to the new monarch.

Up until yesterday, the Crown was formally referred to by lawyers as “Her Majesty the Queen,” when the Crown was a party in a case, but that changes over now to “His Majesty the King.”

That applies to documents filed in the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal, the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, and the Provincial Court of Nova Scotia.

In matters started before September 8th, when the Queen died, participants in the process won’t have to make a formal amendment.

Nova Scotia’s mass shooting inquiry has heard from a former Mountie who says he became so frustrated trying to get the force to adopt a new public alerting system that he quit.

Mark Furey, who later served as Nova Scotia’s justice minister, says in 2012 he recommended R-C-M-P start using the National Public Alerting System, which could broadcast intrusive alerts via television and radio.

But Furey says his superiors shot down the idea, prompting him to take early retirement.

The Mounties have said Alert Ready was not part of their “tool box” at the time, though they were in the process of preparing an alert when the gunman was shot dead on April 19th, 2020 following his rampage that claimed 22 lives.

On Monday, the hearings got underway into Nova Scotia Power’s request to raise rates by 11.6 percent between 2022 and 2024.  The 11.6 percent is higher than the 10 percent increase in its application in January.  The power company points to the rising fuel costs, saying that its fuel costs are nearly $700 million higher than the forecast that was the basis for its rate hike application earlier this year.

Nova Scotia is set to open its first monkeypox vaccine clinic later this month.

The clinic is for people facing the highest risk of exposure to the disease.

The Health Department says the clinic will be set up at the Halifax Sexual Health Centre.

Vaccines are expected to be available as soon as the week of Sept. 19th.