Nova Scotia will recognize Monday, September 19, as a provincial holiday in honour of Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral service.
Provincial government offices, public schools and regulated child care will be closed. Healthcare services, appointments and procedures will remain operational across the province.
Businesses will have the choice, as they do on other occasions, to remain open. Premier Tim Houston says Nova Scotia joins the Government of Canada and other provinces recognizing September 19 as a day to honour and pay tribute to the life and legacy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
A multi-faith memorial service will be held in Halifax on Monday, September 19, at 2 p.m.
The provincial commemorative service is open to the public. It will be held at the Cathedral Church of All Saints, 1330 Cathedral Lane, Halifax. Guests are asked to be seated by 1:30 p.m. there will be a livestream.
Queen Elizabeth’s coffin will be taken from Buckingham Palace this morning, via a horse-drawn gun carriage, to the Houses of Parliament.
There, the late Monarch will lie in state for four days before Monday’s funeral at Westminster Abbey.
Earlier this week, Canada’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Ralph Goodale, told The Canadian Press that Canada will have a “prominent” role in both the Queen’s lying-in-state and funeral.
Goodale will be one of Canada’s three official mourners, including the Prime Minister and the Governor General.
Nova Scotia’s mass shooting inquiry has heard from Indigenous residents who question the lack of a timely warning about the gunman in April, 2020.
The inquiry was told the killer moved through two First Nations during the 13-hour rampage.
One member of the Sipekne’katik First Nation, says local residents don’t use Twitter, which left them vulnerable because that’s what the Mounties were using instead of the provincial alerting system. She says the First Nation has since set up its own alerting system.
The list of Nova Scotia public sector workers making 100-thousand dollars or more is out for the past fiscal year.
The so-called sunshine list was released this week and shows more than 19-hundred employees at Nova Scotia Health making 100-thousand dollars or more.
Nova Scotia Health has taken issue with the list in the past, making it clear the compensation is not a base salary and often includes a lot of overtime worked particularly by nurses.
Also making the list are more than 12-hundred employees at Dalhousie University, almost 400 at the Halifax Regional Education Centre and 40 at the Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation.
Effective today at 4:30 p.m. the Town of Antigonish will be initiating a mandatory water conservation order for all area water utility customers.
It will be in effect until the James River Dam levels return to normal.
The order means that watering lawns, trees, shrubs, flower beds and gardens is banned, and people are also being asked not to fill pools, wash down walkways, driveways or vehicles.
The Town warns that anyone found breaking the rules could have their water service disconnected.
