HALIFAX Frustration is growing among residents of Port Morien, N.S. who say illegal dumping continues to occur at the resting place for many of their ancestors. I was horrified. This is a sacred space for our community, said Beverly Spencer, a resident of Port Morien. There are literally generations of people from this area buried here. Spencer has family members of her own resting in Black Brook Cemetery. She says the community has a memorial service every summer with many people coming from away to partake. So, it s not just a place where you occasionally come, said Spencer. It has special meaning for so many people.
HALIFAX A man injured in a fight outside an Antigonish nightclub on Saturday night was airlifted to a Halifax hospital after police responded to a Main Street bar at 11:15 p.m. Two males had gotten into an altercation after leaving a nightclub in the area, Antigonish RCMP wrote in a news release. The victim, a 21-year-old from Antigonish, was struck in the head and fell to the ground. The injured male was transported by EHS to hospital and then airlifted to the QEII hospital in Halifax with critical injuries. Police say they arrested a suspect, a 24-year-old male from Hopewell, and charged him with aggravated assault. He has been released from custody and will appear in Antigonish Provincial Court on May 26 at 9:30 a.m.
New Brunswick Public Health reported one new case of COVID-19 on Monday as the number of active cases dropped from 37 to 36 thanks to two recoveries in the Fredericton region.
HALIFAX A Cape Breton mother who lost her 14-year-old daughter to cancer last year has started a movement in hopes of spreading as much kindness as possible. Adele Curtis daughter, Leigh-Anne Cox, passed away in June 2020 after battling a form of bone cancer for nearly three years. She died just days before her 15
th birthday. It s been a really rough go. I wouldn t wish it on anybody, said Curtis. I miss her every single day, every minute. Nine months after the loss, Curtis has started a movement called Leigh-Anne s Legacy. As part of the movement, Curtis is asking people to perform acts of kindness in her daughter s name.
HALIFAX While there are some similarities when it comes to COVID-19 vaccine rollout plans, how Canadians will get their vaccine varies depending on which province you reside in. In the Maritimes, both New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island are offering the shot to those with complex medical conditions in the second phase of their rollout. That’s not the case in Nova Scotia, however, where Chief Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Robert Strang, says the province’s goal is to immunize as many people as they can in the shortest time possible. If we start to divert and do different medical conditions or different types of occupations, what that does is substantially slow down our ability to build population immunity,” said Strang at a COVID update on Friday afternoon.