Gasoline and diesel prices both decreased overnight in Nova Scotia.

Gasoline prices went down by 3.6 cents per litre, putting the minimum pump price for regular self serve gasoline at 150.1 cents per litre in the local area.

Diesel prices decreased by 5.8 cents per litre, putting the minimum pump price for diesel at 139.5 cents per litre locally.

 

 

The new federal carbon tax is set to take effect in Nova Scotia on Canada Day.

Residents are reminded that they will pay more for gas, diesel and home heating fuels as of July 1st.

The price of gas and diesel is expected to go up by about 14 to 17 cents per litre as a result.

This comes as the province continues to ask Ottawa for a delay in starting the new tax because of high inflation.

 

 

Nova Scotia’s premier is threatening to take Ottawa to court over who should fund a project to protect a vital land corridor linking his province and New Brunswick.

Tim Houston wants the federal government to fund the entire cost to improve and strengthen the dike system on the Chignecto Isthmus.

In a letter dated yesterday, the premier implored federal Infrastructure Minister Dominic LeBlanc to reconsider Ottawa’s offer to pay for 50 per cent of the project.

But in an emailed response, a spokesman for LeBlanc says the federal minister’s position has “always been clear” that the protection of the isthmus is a shared responsibility between the three governments.

 

 

A landmark legal victory has been officially converted into a five-year plan to ensure Nova Scotians with disabilities can move out of large institutions and receive timely access to housing.

A Nova Scotia human rights board of inquiry announced yesterday that it has approved a plan from two experts that had been accepted by the province and the Disability Rights Coalition in April.

Board chairman Donald Murray says an expert monitor will be named by the end of this year to monitor implementation of the plan.

The plan was based on a report that recommended the province move three-quarters of the 870 people in institutions into housing in communities by 2025, with the large facilities to be closed by 2028.

 

 

Take note that Riverside Parkway from Dalhousie Street to MacLean Street and the Glasgow Square parking lot will be closed today from 3:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. for the Town of New Glasgow’s Summer Launch Party.