Nova Scotia

Michael Taube: PCs have lock on Nova Scotia election thanks to incompetent NDP

They made Justin cry.

There’s been an intense call for political change around the world. We’ve seen it in the U.K., where Keir Starmer and the Labour Party ended 15 years of Tory rule. We’ve seen it in the U.S., where Donald Trump will be returning to the White House with the Republicans in control of the House of Representatives and Senate.

Yet, there’s one Canadian province which is seemingly about to buck this worldwide trend. That’s in Nova Scotia, where Premier Tim Houston and his PC government are, once again, coasting to victory.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inNova Scotia

Nova Scotia government bans planned Trans-Canada Highway border blockade

In a statement late Friday afternoon, the Emergency Management Office issued an order that prohibits protesters from blockading the Trans-Canada Highway at the border.

The order also applies to people stopping or gathering along the side of the highway, both at the border and at the toll plaza for the Cobequid Pass, the highway that runs through northern Nova Scotia to the New Brunswick border.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inNova Scotia, Protest

Nova Scotia restaurants brace for ‘massive’ losses with return of COVID-19 restrictions

A return to COVID-19 restrictions will cost Nova Scotia restaurants millions of dollars and likely will force some to temporarily close, the province’s restaurant association said Monday.

As a result of the physical distancing rules, thousands of bookings will be cancelled and the losses will be “massive,” said Gordon Stewart, president of the Restaurant Association of Nova Scotia, in an interview Monday afternoon.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease", "Comply!", Economy, Nova Scotia

Progressive Conservatives will form next Nova Scotia government

The Progressive Conservatives will form Nova Scotia’s next government, with Tim Houston as premier.

Votes continue to be counted and it’s too soon to say whether it will be a majority or minority victory, but Liberal Leader Iain Rankin conceded the result.

The Tories will return to power for the first time since 2009 and deny the Liberals a third consecutive win. The party jumped out to early leads in many seats after polls closed, including seats they previously held but also many they targeted.

h/t Osumashi

 

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inNova Scotia

Holes in the RCMP’s Nova Scotia narrative are a bigger story than leaked 911 calls

This was a killing spree that unfolded over 13 hours at multiple locations in Nova Scotia. One of the complicating factors in stopping Gabriel Wortman’s rampage was the fact that he was dressed in police attire and driving a replica RCMP vehicle. The question of when police became aware of that information — and when they finally informed the public of that information — is crucial.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inCanada, Nova Scotia, police, RCMP

Firefighters ‘terrorized’ by RCMP during search for Nova Scotia gunman still have no answers

The sharp cracking sound of semi-automatic gunfire sent Greg Muise and Darrell Currie crashing to the ground.

The two volunteer firefighters were setting up an evacuation centre at the Onslow-Belmont fire hall for victims of the Nova Scotia killing spree last April 19 when, out of nowhere, bullets began flying.

Some shots went through the side of the building they were in. Others shattered part of the windshield of a firetruck and damaged a stone monument to deceased firefighters set up outside the building’s main entrance.

Fearing for their lives, and knowing an armed gunman was on the loose, Muise and Currie rushed to find safety in the farthest corner of the building, as far away from the sound of gunfire as they could get.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"Bad Optics", Canada, Nova Scotia, RCMP, shooting