1. Low Income Transit Passes “Halifax Transit wants to limit participation in its Low Income Transit Pass program to protect the agency from an outlandishly argued worst-case scenario,” writes Examiner transportation columnist Erica Butler. “Here’s hoping councillors, starting with the Transportation Standing Committee on Thursday, can see through the absurdity.” Click here to read “Mind […]
Last Gasp: Nova Scotia Power is blamed for a massive fish kill in the Gaspereau River
"Tens of thousands" of gaspereau died so rubber duckies could race in the Apple Blossom Festival.
The Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) is investigating an abnormally large fish kill near a Nova Scotia Power hydro station on the Gaspereau River, about eight kilometers from Wolfville. Photographs taken by fishermen of gaspereau — a bony, migratory species that is netted, salted, and mostly shipped off to the Caribbean — show dead...