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Nova Scotia’s three major political parties have election campaign announcements scheduled today in the Halifax area.
The N-D-P will discuss housing at an event in Dartmouth, while the Liberals will also be in Dartmouth to make an announcement on affordability for working families.
The Progressive Conservatives also have an announcement scheduled on the Halifax side of the harbour.
Voters go to the polls on November 26th.
(The Canadian Press)
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The New Brunswick Progressive Conservative Party has named an interim leader replacing former premier Blaine Higgs.
The party announced yesterday that Glen Savoie will take on the role.
Savoie is the member of the legislature for Saint John East and has been the house leader and has held the environment and local government portfolios.
Higgs lost his seat in the October 21st election and resigned as party leader on Friday.
(The Canadian Press)
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A volunteer fire department in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia is apologizing after a group attended a Halloween party at the local firefighters club over the weekend dressed as members of the Ku Klux Klan.
Pictures and videos shared on social media show four people wearing long white robes and pointed white hoods, with one carrying a large cross, inside what appears to be the North Sydney Firefighters Club.
The club’s executive apologized in a social media post on Sunday night, saying the people attended a Halloween costume party Saturday night, and they are not associated with the organization.
Fire Chief Lloyd MacIntosh says the people were admitted by volunteers working the door, and they were asked to remove their hoods, but he acknowledged that ultimately it was a mistake to let them in at all.
(The Canadian Press)
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An 18-year-old man has been arrested following a firearm incident in a community north of Saint John, New Brunswick.
Police say that last Wednesday evening they responded to a complaint of a man with a firearm on River Valley Drive in Grand Bay-Westfield.
Investigators say after they arrived on the scene the teenager was arrested without incident and a firearm was seized.
The man was later released on conditions pending a future court appearance.
(The Canadian Press)
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Police in southern New Brunswick are asking for the public’s help as they investigate a shooting in Saint John.
The Saint John Police Force says they are looking for a suspect after a 28-year-old man was found Saturday on Richmond Street badly wounded by gunfire.
Police say they are looking for 21-year-old Rye Watt, who is also the subject of a Canada-wide warrant for being unlawfully at large — and investigators are warning people not to approach the him.
Watt is described as five-foot-seven,150 pounds and he has brown hair, thick eyebrows and a thin moustache.
(The Canadian Press)
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Nova Scotia has a new member of its supreme court.
Justice D. Shane Russell was previously an associate chief judge of the Provincial Court of Nova Scotia.
His appointment was announced yesterday by the federal justice minister.
Russell will fill one of two vacancies on the provincial supreme court and is taking the place of Justice Robin Gogan who was appointed in February to the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal.
(The Canadian Press)
