Posted: Jan 08, 2021 3:36 PM AT | Last Updated: January 8
St. Francis Xavier University says there s no indication of any criminal activity in the community of Antigonish related to Justin Barrett.(Robert Short/CBC)
A 20-year-old student at St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia is facing a slew of charges related to human trafficking.
Justin Barrett of Brampton, Ont., was arrested Dec. 13 in his home province in connection with the procurement and exploitation of a 16-year-old girl in the sex trade.
In a statement Tuesday, Elizabeth Yeo, vice-president for students at St. FX, said Barrett has been suspended effectively immediately. She did not mention him by name. The statement goes on to say that the university will reconsider Barrett s status once the case has been dealt with by the courts.
Nova Scotia has announced three new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, bringing the province’s total active cases to 31. According to the province’s website, 1,334 previously reported cases are now considered resolved.
We can see from our case numbers that Nova Scotians and university students returning to our province are doing a good job following the public health protocols and orders, Premier Stephen McNeil said in a news release Saturday.
This is the second case to be identified at St. FX this week. The first case also involved a returning student who arrived to campus on Jan. 3 and immediately began isolating. The two cases appear to be unrelated. Our plans have been fully enacted, including activating the necessary supports for our student, and the risk to the overall community remains low, the release said.
Posted: Jan 08, 2021 2:43 PM AT | Last Updated: January 8
Graham Gagnon is the director of the Dalhousie University Centre for Water Resource Studies.(CBC)
Researchers at Dalhousie University are teaming up with three other Nova Scotia universities to expand a program that tests for COVID-19 indicators in wastewater.
About $850,000 is being invested into the expansion. The work builds on the recent results of a pilot study in Halifax and Wolfville where the virus that causes COVID-19 was detected in wastewater.
Now testing will be done at many more locations in the province. We ll be open to the province to focus on what could be priority sites, said Dr. Graham Gagnon, the lead researcher of the project who is the director of the Dalhousie University Centre for Water Resource Studies.