The RCMP is investigating a fatal crash that occurred in Selma on Sunday morning.

The single vehicle crash happened at about 9:40 a.m. on Hwy. 215.  Officers arrived to find that a vehicle had appeared to have gone off the road into a ditch and hit a culvert. The driver and only occupant, a 79-year-old man from Maitland, was pronounced deceased at the scene.  An RCMP collision reconstructionist attended the scene, and the investigation is ongoing.

 

 

A group of evacuees from 19 homes in  Annapolis County will be allowed to return home today.  Provincial fire officials say the Long Lake wildfire is not likely to grow after burning for almost four weeks, as long as conditions do not change.

Evacuation orders remain in place for about 110 civic addresses in the Annapolis Valley.

The fire destroyed 20 homes late last month and forced about one-thousand people to evacuate their neighbourhoods near West Dalhousie.

 

 

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s parliamentary secretary, Nova Scotia MP Kody Blois, has been in Beijing pushing back against canola tariffs.

Blois is with Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe on a trade mission to China after Beijing hit Canadian canola seed with a nearly 76 per cent tariff last month.

The move was widely seen as a response to Canada’s 100 per cent tariff on Chinese electric vehicles.

 

 

Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced 80 million dollars in tariff relief funding for businesses in Atlantic Canada.  Carney says businesses will be able to access the money from the one-billion-dollars that has been set aside as part of a regional tariff response initiative.  It’s aimed at helping small and medium-sized businesses diversify their markets and adopt new technologies.  Last week, Ottawa announced a package of protectionist policies and tariff relief measures for businesses dealing with the effects of U-S President Donald Trump’s trade war.