Ferry service between Nova Scotia and P-E-I won’t resume until at least October 19th. Northumberland Ferries says it’s delaying the resumption of service between Caribou and Wood Islands due to problems with the M-V Saaremaa’s engines. The ferry company says that while repairs were being done to some of the main engines over the past week, other issues with the main engines were found and they must be repaired before it can be approved for a return to service. Meanwhile, Northumberland Ferries says repairs to the M-V Confederation, which was damaged in a collision with the wharf in September, will take ten weeks to complete. As a result, the MV Confederation will not be ready for service until at least December 9th.
Pictou County District RCMP are asking for the public’s assistance in locating 58-year-old Glenn Robert Freeman. Glenn “Gnome” Freeman was last heard from on June 11th and was believed to have been in Ottawa at that time. Freeman may be travelling across Canada and is believed to be travelling on foot, and by hitchhiking. Freeman is 5-foot-4, has brown hair and beard, and blue eyes, and he wears glasses. Pictou County District RCMP are asking that Freeman, or anyone with information on his whereabouts, contact them or Nova Scotia Crime Stoppers,
Less than half of the 200 pallet shelters purchased by the Nova Scotia government a year ago for unhoused people are currently open to residents.
The province says that as of yesterday, 80 of the insulated, 70-square-foot fibreglass shelters made by the U-S company Pallet are ready for use.
The Department of Community Services says 80 units erected in Halifax and Kentville are either occupied or being moved into soon.
Meanwhile, the Affordable Housing Association of Nova Scotia reports that as of last Wednesday, one-thousand 287 people in the Halifax Regional Municipality reported they were homeless.
Tuesday was Treaty Day in Nova Scotia.
The annual event recognizes the treaties signed in 1752 by the Mi’kmaq of Nova Scotia and the Crown.
In 1985, the Supreme Court of Canada confirmed the validity of these treaties.
The ruling validated Indigenous treaty rights and confirmed the unique relationship between the Mi’kmaq and the Crown.
