GUYSBOROUGH: The New Brunswick doctor who signed off on
retired Cpl. Lionel Desmond’s firearms licence review described the 33-year-old
veteran on the medical assessment as “non-suicidal and stable,” along with
having “no concerns for firearms usage with appropriate licence.”
PICTOU COUNTY: The RCMP arrested and charged two people with the thefts of copper wire.
In
August 2019, police began receiving reports of thefts of copper wire from Nova
Scotia Power (NSP) substations in Pictou County....
ANTIGONISH: One of the two teenagers arrested in relation to a
hold-and-secure at a local high school has entered a pair of guilty pleas.
RCMP say officers responded to a call of an altercation between...
PICTOU: The 19-year-old driver facing multiple charges
in relation to a fatal collision that claimed the lives of a mother and
daughter from Antigonish is scheduled to return to court in March.
RCMP say a transport...
The Reporter:
You’ve said the modernization of the province is a high priority for you. Are
there any specific projects in Antigonish, Guysborough, Inverness, Richmond
counties you see as especially promising?
Houston: There are lots of
positive and...
PORT HAWKESBURY: The long-serving principal of the Nova
Scotia Community College Strait Area Campus is leaving the position at the end
of March.
“Fortunately I’m staying with the college, it’s just
moving to a different role,” Tom...
HALIFAX: The Marine Research Centre in Isle Madame will
be part of a new lobster quality and innovation centre conducting cutting edge
research.
On February 26, the province announced the new $2.5
million facility tasked with finding...
GUYSBOROUGH: The chief firearms officer who approved
Cpl. Lionel Desmond’s firearms possession and acquisition licence renewal
testified on February 20 she would have rejected the soldier’s application if
she had been more aware of his severe mental illness.
GUYSBOROUGH: Retired Cpl. Lionel Desmond’s firearms
possession and acquisition licence was first flagged for review by firearms
officials in New Brunswick in 2014 after it was revealed the Afghanistan war veteran
didn’t disclose his complex diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder...
GUYSBOROUGH: Shifting the focus of the Desmond Fatality
Inquiry to the access to firearms, from access to health care services, a New
Brunswick RCMP officer who confiscated retired Cpl. Lionel Desmond’s rifle in
2015 testified he did so because he...