Environment Canada has issued a Wind Warning and Special Weather Statement. We’ll see wet, blustery weather from tonight through Thursday morning. Rain, heavy at times is expected giving us 15 to 25 mm. Over that same period of time, we can expect maximum southerly gusts of 90 km/h, up to 100 over exposed areas.
A 36-year-old Nova Scotia woman and a three-year-old boy have been found dead a few days after they were reported missing.
Police say Holly Cooper and the toddler were last seen on foot overnight Saturday on Ruth Falls Road and searchers found Cooper dead on the shoreline of a body of water nearby.
The body of the young boy was found near the woman’s remains.
Police don’t believe the deaths to be suspicious.
Liberal Leader Zach Churchill is doing some damage control after an auditor general’s report suggested his party covered up misuse of public money by an employee.
Kim Adair’s office said yesterday it has evidence the matter of the missing money — which was later reimbursed to the tune of about 194-thousand dollars — was kept concealed by the party until after the 2021 summer election campaign.
And the auditor general says throughout 2022, after Churchill became leader, the party still wasn’t forthcoming about details of how the public funds for the party went missing.
The party’s former president says the auditor general’s report is inaccurate and “any insinuation” the timeline of an independent forensic audit was “part of a political calculation” is baseless and needlessly inflammatory.
Proposed legislation would allow the Nova Scotia government to change how the province’s electrical grid is structured and regulated. The Energy Reform Act would create a new regulator for public energy utilities, and a new independent operator for the electricity system. Natural Resources Minister Tory Rushton says the changes will make the electricity system more competitive. The creation of the two new entities was recommended in a report released Friday by the two-member Clean Electricity Task Force.
The Nova Scotia government has introduced legislation that would allow the town of Antigonish and the Municipality of the County of Antigonish to consolidate. Municipal Affairs Minister John Lohr tabled the bill yesterday that will see the formation of a coordinating committee to oversee the transition. A Nova Scotia Supreme Court judge ruled in December that the two entities had the legal right to ask the province for permission to amalgamate, but a group of residents is appealing the decision. Lohr says local residents will go to the polls during the October municipal elections, to vote in a new council and mayor for a consolidated entity with the completion of the transition process slated for November 1st.
