The Town of New Glasgow has secured funding through Health Canada’s Emergency Treatment Fund to develop and implement a Community Crisis Outreach Worker program through the New Glasgow Police.  Through the funding, the Town will place a civilian social worker within the New Glasgow Police service.  The program will provide mobile, trauma-informed, and harm-reduction-based support to individuals and families experiencing mental health challenges, substance use concerns, drug toxicity risk, and other complex social issues.  The Community Crisis Outreach Worker program will launch later this month and will operate as a pilot initiative.

Gas and diesel prices both went up overnight in Nova Scotia.  The price of regular gasoline rose by 4.5 cents per litre, putting the minimum pump price for regular self-serve gasoline at $1.97 per litre in the local area.  The price of diesel went up by 3.1 cents per litre, leaving the minimum pump price for self-serve diesel at $2.17 per litre locally.

Ottawa’s long-awaited clean electricity strategy will include more flexibility to liquefied natural gas power plants.  The strategy aims to double electrical capacity by 2050 while lowering energy costs for 70 per cent of Canadian households.  Construction is expected to cost more than one-trillion dollars and the government says public dollars will be used to cover some of the cost.   It commits to building electricity capacity in the North but doesn’t say how, other than Ottawa will work with territories and Indigenous stakeholders to make it happen. 

Nova Scotia R-C-M-P has a new commanding officer.

The force announced yesterday that assistant commissioner Dan Morrow is now in charge of the Mounties in the province.

Morrow joined the police force in 1992 and has been in Nova Scotia since 2007.

He takes over from assistant commissioner Dennis Daley who had been in command since 2022 and retired in March.