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**** HRM Media Release Response to COVID-19: Municipal service updates The Halifax Regional Municipality continues to monitor and respond to the rapidly evolving effects of COVID-19. The municipality is committed to taking important steps in reducing the spread of COVID-19. The following is an update on municipal services. Tax Deferral Regional Council has voted to […]
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**** RCMP Media Release Wagmatcook man charged with child luring offences Baddeck RCMP has charged a Wagmatcook man for offences related to child luring. The investigation began on April 9 when a victim contacted police. The subsequent police investigation resulted in charges against the accused in relation to three youths. On April 11, Baddeck RCMP […]
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**** Health Canada Release Considerations in the use of homemade masks to protect against COVID-19 Notice to General Public and Healthcare Professionals Health Canada is advising the public, as well as healthcare professionals (HCPs) on important considerations for the use of homemade masks to protect against the transmission of COVID-19. Wearing a facial covering/non-medical mask […]
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**** RCMP Media Release Man charged and 17 firearms seized following investigation The Halifax District RCMP Street Crime Enforcement Unit (SCEU) have charged a 29-year-old man and seized 17 firearms following an investigation that began in early January after police were called about an erratic driving incident where the driver was waving a firearm out […]
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**** HRP Media Release Police Investigate Break & Enter – Dartmouth At 2:03 a.m., on the 15th of April, a Halifax Regional Police officer in a marked police vehicle was conducting a routine patrol of a construction site located at the 300 block of Higney Avenue in Dartmouth, when he came upon two suspects who […]
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**** HEALTH/WELLNESS Media Release COVID-19 Projections Released, Show Value of Public Health Measures ————————————————————— Government released COVID-19 projections today, April 14, that show how COVID-19 could progress through the province through to June 30 if people continue to follow public health orders to stay home, social distance, limit essential gatherings to no more than five […]
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**** HRFE Release HRFE was honored to receive a donation of over 1000 surgical masks from the Chinese Society of Nova Scotia and the Chinese Benevolent Association of Nova Scotia. These masks will help protect our firefighters from COVID-19 so they will be ready when you need them! Wilber Huang, President of the Chinese Society […]
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**** HEALTH/WELLNESS– Forty-three New Cases of COVID-19 ————————————————————— Premier Stephen McNeil and Dr. Robert Strang, Nova Scotia’s chief medical officer of health will provide an update today, April 14, at 3 p.m. This 3pm update will be livestreamed on http://novascotia.ca/stayinformed/webcast . ————————————————————— As of today, April 14, Nova Scotia has 517 confirmed cases of COVID-19. Forty-three […]
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**** NSHA Media Release MacKenzie Atlantic to produce more than one million face shields for NSHA, IWK MacKenzie Atlantic of Musquodoboit Harbour will produce one million face shields for use by Nova Scotia Health Authority staff and physicians. The company has an additional contract to produce 100,000 shields for the IWK Health Centre. Face shields […]
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**** HRP Media Release COVID-19 enforcement statistics information Halifax Regional Police is providing an update in relation to violations under the Nova Scotia Emergency Management Act and Health Protection Act related to COVID-19 directives. Since our last report on Thursday, HRP issued 32 tickets for violations of the Health Protection Act and Emergency Management Act, […]
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