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**** Info via Environment Canada Summer solstice and Indigenous knowledge June 21 marks National Indigenous Peoples Day in Canada, coinciding with the summer solstice, the year’s longest day. It is a time for gathering and celebration among Indigenous communities. While the Gregorian calendar divides the year into four seasons, First Nations people follow a lunar […]
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**** RCMP Media Release Do you recognize this vehicle or these people? Throughout the school year, this vehicle and these people have been observed doing donuts and damaging a soccer field at the Antigonish Education Centre in Antigonish. Anyone with information is asked to call Antigonish County District RCMP at 902-863-6500 or CrimeStoppers. .
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**** Info via DNR Provincial Burn Restrictions updated: 21 June 2023 at 2:00 pm During wildfire risk season (15 March to 15 October), no domestic brush burning or campfires are allowed between 8:00 am and 2:00 pm, except industrial permits. Burn restrictions are updated daily at 2:00 pm (you also need to follow municipal bylaws […]
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**** HRP Media Release Police lay drug trafficking charges Police have charged three people with drug trafficking offences in relation to two searches that occurred in Halifax last week. On June 15, members of the Drug Unit and Guns and Gangs Unit of the Integrated Criminal Investigation Division, along with West Division patrol officers, conducted […]
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Via REMO King’s Cty Update – Tropical Storm Bret forecast to remain Tropical Storm strength (63-117 km/h) through to the end of the week and not become a Hurricane (+117 km/h). https://weather.gc.ca/hurricane/track_e.html * No forecast impact to Atlantic Canada
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**** HEALTH / WELLNESS Media Release Helping Patients Get Home Sooner Real-time information is helping healthcare teams provide better, faster care to patients. The new Care Coordination Centre at the Halifax Infirmary site of the QEII Health Sciences Centre gives healthcare teams information on bed availability, the status of diagnostic tests and procedures, wait lists, […]
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**** DND Media Release Search for missing Royal Canadian Air Force members involved in helicopter crash near Petawawa concludes The two missing air crew members from the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) CH-147F Chinook that crashed in the Ottawa River in the early hours of Tuesday June 20, were found last evening. Tragically, neither member […]
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**** RCMP Media Release Eskasoni RCMP charge man involved in armed robbery Eskasoni RCMP has charged a man involved in an armed robbery in Eskasoni. On June 18, 2023, at approximately 11:40 p.m., Eskasoni RCMP responded to a report of an armed robbery on Arena Rd. in Eskasoni. RCMP officers learned that a 33-year-old Eskasoni […]
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**** Via NS Government Blue-green algae Watch for blue-green algae from May to October. Blue-green algae (also called cyanobacteria) occur naturally in surface waters like lakes, ponds, rivers and streams. The toxins in the algae can make people sick and be fatal for pets if ingested. If you think you see blue-green algae, don’t touch […]
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**** NS SPCA Release **** NS SPCA Release The weather is warming up. ☀️ So far this June, NS SPCA Enforcement team has issued two fines to individuals who have left dogs in distress in a vehicle and tied outside without access to shade and water. In both situations the dogs did suffer from varying […]
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