The price of diesel dropped over the weekend.  

After a jump of almost 5 cents on Friday, the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board invoked the interrupter clause that same afternoon to drop the price of diesel by 12 cents per litre.  

The minimum pump price for diesel in the province is now 204.1 cents per litre.  

There was no change to gasoline. 

 

 

Nova Scotia was hit hard by the cold snap over the weekend.  

The Pictou County area beat daily low temperature records on Friday and Saturday with the temperatures sitting at –25.1 and –26.5 before the windchill. 

However, the frigid temperatures mixed with strong winds left around 30,000 Nova Scotia Power customers in the dark.  

Along with many power outages, The Canadian Red Cross said in a statement on Sunday that over 60 people have been displaced in the Maritimes after incidents of burst water pipes, flooding, and residential fires during the cold snap. 

One of the residential fires was in River John. 

 

 

Some areas of Pictou County have a boil water advisory in effect.  

The Municipality of Pictou County has water main breakage in the Green Hill/Alma Areas.  

There was another breakage in the Priestville/ Walkerville area that has since been fixed, but the boil water advisory remains in effect. 

They are working with contractors to complete emergency repairs.  

They are asking residents in affected areas to boil their water before consuming or cooking with it.  

If you have any questions; you can contact public works at 902-485-4085.  

Updates on when the boil water advisory will end will be on The Municipalities website and Facebook Page. 

 

 

Premier Tim Houston is reassuring that he still intends to fix the province’s health-care system at whatever cost it takes. 

During his address at the Progressive Conservative Annual General Meeting on Saturday, he said he will make whatever investment is needed to turn the health crisis around. 

He says a lot of work is needed, and that “progress is too slow, and the stakes are very high.” 

The Provencial government announced a plan to improve emergency care following two deaths in Nova Scotia of a 67-year-old woman in Cape Breton and a 37-year-old woman in Amherst, which included creating doctor-led triage teams to focus on admitting patients more quickly in ERs and assigning extra physician assistants and nurse practitioners to staff emergency departments. 

The premier also talked about other recent efforts to tackle the issue, which include adding more nursing student seats, announcing a New Medical school to open at Cape Breton University, creating mobile urgent and primary care clinics, and signing an agreement for the creation of a digital medical record program. 

 In order to get the health care crisis on track faster, Houston said Nova Scotia needs increased support from the federal government. 

The premier said such support could come in the form of financial contributions and by fast-tracking immigration for health care workers. 

 

In the Maritime Junior Hockey League: 

The Pictou County Weeks Crushers lost to the Amherst Ramblers on Saturday 5-1.