There is a wind warning in effect for Pictou County and most of Nova Scotia today.
Environment Canada advises that southeasterly winds with maximum gusts of 90 to 100 km/h can be expected, and those gusts could be higher along exposed coastal areas.
The winds will spreading from west to east beginning this morning in the southwest and then spreading across the province by this afternoon.
Meanwhile,10 to 20 mm of rain is expected for our region today.
Some other areas of Nova Scotia could see double that and there are rainfall warnings in effect for much of the province.
Nova Scotia Power says it will open its Emergency Operations Centre this morning ahead of this latest windstorm to hit the province.
It says they’ve been monitoring the weather forecasts over the last several days and in light of the high winds expected to reach 90-100+ km an hour across the province, Nova Scotia Power will be activating the Emergency Operation Centre.
Crews have been getting ready and will be positioned across the province ahead of the storm.
The R-C-M-P have failed to meet a self-imposed deadline to detail how they plan to implement recommendations from the inquiry into the
2020 Nova Scotia mass shooting.
When the Mass Casualty Commission released its final report last March the Mounties said they planned to release an “implementation strategy” and “action plan” before the end of 2023.
The national police force issued a brief statement yesterday confirming it “was not in a position to release its action plan and strategy by the end of the calendar year as it had previously intended.”
The statement went on to say the plan would be released as soon as possible, though a deadline was not specified.
Public perception of provincial governments’ handling of health care has fallen across Canada since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic _ though only slightly in Nova Scotia.
New Angus Reid numbers show 42 and 48 per cent of New Brunswickers and Newfoundlanders and Labradorians felt their leaders were doing a good or very good job with health care before the pandemic.
Those figures fell last year to 20 per cent in Newfoundland and Labrador and to just 11 per cent in New Brunswick — the lowest among provinces except P-E-I, for which there is no data.
Meanwhile, only 28 per cent of Nova Scotians felt their government was doing a good or very good on health care in 2020, and that fell to 26 per cent in 2023.
