The RCMP took one person into custody Wednesday after an incident in Salmon River. Officers had responded to a situation involving a person who had barricaded themselves inside a home. As they were on scene, the RCMP had said there was no immediate threat to the public, and officers had spoken directly with affected residents in the area. No one was injured in the incident.
A new report says the number of Nova Scotia children living in poverty will remain in the tens of thousands unless the provincial government makes a major effort to change things. The annual report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives says the support the province provides to a lone parent with one child is the lowest among all provinces. The advocacy group says that means the poorest families will remain trapped in poverty. Income data for 2023 shows a 4.6 per cent decrease in child poverty, but more than 40-thousand children still lived in households below the low-income threshold — that’s 23 per cent of the province’s children.
Premier Tim Houston’s Progressive Conservatives are still the most popular party in Nova Scotia, but a new poll suggests its support is softening. The latest survey from polling firm Abacus Data says the Tories have 48 per cent support, down four points from September. Claudia Chender’s N-D-P picked up two of those points, landing at 25 per cent support. Iain Rankin’s Liberals are also up two points, coming in at 18 per cent.
In sports,
St FX beat Acadia 4-1 in Game 1 of their AUS Men’s Hockey best-of-three quarterfinal playoff series last night. Game 2 is scheduled for Friday at 7 p.m. in Antigonish.
Two more medals for Canada at the Milan Cortina Olympics today. Short-track speedskater Steven Dubois captured gold in the men’s 500 metre for his second medal of the Games. Canadian speedskaters also climbed the podium in the women’s three-thousand-metre short-track relay, winning bronze.
The Canadian Women’s Hockey team battles the United States this afternoon for gold. The rivals will again face off for gold at 2:10pm our time this afternoon.
Canada’s men’s hockey team will next face Finland in the semifinals. Mitch Marner was the hero, scoring 1:22 into overtime to help Canada squeeze past Czechia 4-3 to advance. Finland also escaped an upset bid by rallying to beat Switzerland 3-2 in O-T.
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