All CCRCE schools (including the Municipality of East Hants, and Counties of Colchester, Cumberland and Pictou) are closed today, December 4, 2023, due to road conditions and expected forecast. Offices and worksites will remain open.
There is a Snowfall Warning in effect with much of Nova Scotia to get upwards of 15 to 25 cm of snow through the day today into this evening. In Pictou County we could see 10 to 20 cm through the day today, with some areas getting up to 10mm of rain in the mix. The winds will be northeast gusting to 40kh. Do drive carefully as road conditions will worsen through the day.
Nova Scotia musician Myles Goodwyn, the former lead singer of April Wine, has died at age 75.
His publicist says Goodwyn died yesterday in Halifax, and shared no details of the cause of his death.
In 2010, the singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame alongside his fellow April Wine band members.
Goodwyn also received the East Coast Music Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008.
There are currently about two dozen outbreaks of COVID-19 at long term care facilities across Nova Scotia.
The Health Department says visitors should monitor for any symptoms and be “vigilant in their
efforts to keep the virus away from these settings.”
The department adds that long-term care homes have experienced “expected increases” in all respiratory viruses this season and expect cases to increase.
But the union representing thousands of health-care workers says the province should be doing more, such as requiring mandatory masking for visitors to various facilities.
A physician and addictions specialist says being equipped to administer naloxone is one way Canadians can play an active part in responding to the opioid epidemic.
Health Canada calls the opioid crisis one of the most serious public health threats in recent history.
Doctor Sam Hickcox, chief officer of Nova Scotia’s Office of Mental Health and Addictions, says all adults would benefit from having access to naloxone kits and knowing how to use them.
Naloxone is a life-saving medication that temporarily reverses an opioid overdose.
Some volunteer fire services in Nova Scotia say budgets are tighter because of the federal carbon tax and they want an exemption.
The Municipality of the District of Barrington and the
Municipality of the District of Yarmouth have asked Ottawa to remove the carbon tax on volunteer emergency service providers who are struggling with higher gasoline prices for their vehicles.
In October, the federal government paused the carbon tax on home heating oil for three years, which has been a help to volunteer fire departments that use the fuel.
However, a spokesperson for the minister of finance says that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been clear that “there will be no further exemptions for carbon pricing.”
