Premier Tim Houston says First Nations blockades of provincial highways are unacceptable.

Blockades sprang up late last week after the R-C-M-P raided a cannabis shop on Potlotek First Nation.

Houston maintains the unregulated sale of marijuana in First Nations communities is illegal.  The premier is calling for Mi’kmaw leadership to work with the province towards safer regulated dispensaries.

 

 

On Sunday, U-S President Donald Trump issued an expletive-filled threat to escalate strikes on Iran’s power plants and bridges if it doesn’t reopen the Strait of Hormuz by his deadline of tonight.  It follows the daring rescue of a U-S aviator whose plane was downed by Iran.  Iran has shown no sign of backing down in this sixth week of conflict with the U-S and Israel, and has hit targets in Gulf Arab countries.

 

 

The Artemis Two astronauts are nearing their historic rendezvous with the moon.

Canadian Jeremy Hansen and his three American crewmates will reach their destination today, performing a lunar flyby and then coming straight back home — with a Friday splashdown in the Pacific off San Diego.

This team is the first moonbound crew in more than half a century, picking up where NASA’s Apollo program left off in the ’70s.

 

 

The American band the Goo Goo Dolls will no longer finish out their cross-Canada tour in the Maritimes.

Planned concerts this coming weekend in Halifax and Moncton have been cancelled.

The band says on social media that singer John Rzeznik was diagnosed with pneumonia and hasn’t fully recovered.

The band says those who bought tickets can get a refund.

 

 

In sports,

A great showing for the Northern Subway Selects at the U18 Female Atlantic Hockey Championship over weekend in Charlottetown.  They picked up silver, losing a close one, 3-2 to the Moncton Rockets in the gold medal game.  The Rockets will now host the 2026 Esso Cup, Canada’s U18 Women’s National Club Championship, April 19-25, and the Subway Selects will represent the Atlantic region at the event.