RCMP have charged two men after a stabbing on Willow St. in Millbrook.
RCMP got the call at about 4:20pm on Monday, and in their investigation learned that a 29-year-old man was stabbed by one of two men who were in a van and then fled.
He suffered moderate injuries and told police he knew both men in the van.
A couple hours later RCMP got a 9-1-1 call that a firearm had been pointed at the victim from a vehicle occupied by the same two men.
At about 7:15 p.m., police located the vehicle and a high-risk takedown was conducted.
Three people were found in the vehicle and all were safely arrested.
Police found and seized a loaded rifle, a knife and ammunition in the vehicle.
Two men have been jointly charged with Aggravated Assault, Pointing a Firearm and Possession of a Weapon for a Dangerous Purpose.
The third person in the vehicle, a 29-year-old woman, was later released on conditions and will be facing a charge of Unauthorized Possession of a Firearm in a Vehicle.
A report from Nova Scotia’s Auditor General found the province did not appropriately investigate three complaints about financial mismanagement at the Island Employment Association in Cape Breton.
The complaints came from whistleblower employees who subsequently lost their jobs when the province pulled the agency’s funding in 2021.
Sandra Mullen — president of the Nova Scotia Government and General Employees Union — says the union advocated for the government to conduct an audit of Island Employment and hold those responsible for the misconduct directly accountable.
Auditor General Kim Adair noted the employees were contractors, not government employees.
A task force mandated to look into ways to streamline and improve the regulation of offshore tidal projects in Nova Scotia has been formally struck.
The federal fisheries minister, Joyce Murray promised the task force after a key player in the industry withdrew from the Nova Scotia project and declared bankruptcy.
Murray has said her department needs to improve communication about environmental requirements for projects and reduce turnaround times for approvals.
The task force will develop an interim report in September including short-term actions recommended for immediate implementation and a final report by the end of the year.
A Canadian aircraft has detected underwater noise during its search for a lost sub near the wreck of the Titanic in the Atlantic Ocean.
The U.S. Coast Guard says the Canadian military plane’s detection of noise while looking for the missing submersible has caused search efforts to be relocated in an effort to find the source of the sound.
There is no word on exactly what the sounds detected could indicate, but rescuers are racing to find the vessel, carrying five people, before the air supply runs out, as early as Thursday morning.
The news has offered up a glimmer of hope that the sub and its crew can be rescued after losing contact days ago during its descent to the wreck of the ill-fated luxury liner, which sank in 1912.
