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CTV News
a day ago
- CTV News
Eskasoni man wanted on provincewide warrant arrested: N.S. RCMP
Rein Kyler Rodman Ryan (Dennis) is pictured in this image from the Nova Scotia RCMP.
CTV News
2 days ago
- Business
- CTV News
Nova Scotia looks to become offshore energy superpower
The Nova Scotia government is hoping to become a major energy provider with the Wind West project. The Nova Scotia government thinks it has a resource that could make it one of the major energy providers in Canada. 'We have onshore, but our offshore winds are first class. They're world class and they could be producing enough power to support much of Canada,' says Energy Minister Trevor Boudreau. If the 'Wind West' project gets off the ground, it could cover as much as 25 per cent of the nation's energy needs. Nova Scotia is hoping to have offshore wind turbines producing five gigawatts of electricity but Boudreau thinks the output could be much more. 'They have the potential to produce 66 gigawatts of power so with that in mind, Nova Scotia uses 2.4 gigawatts at its coldest day of the year,' he says. It will be a couple years before turbines are standing in the ocean. Once they are in place, power would move by cable throughout the country and possibly across the ocean to Europe. The Ecology Action Centre is on board but they're closely watching how the project unfolds. 'Ultimately we're very much in favour of building a transmission line and we are in favour of building offshore wind, but the devil is in the details when it comes to building offshore wind,' says Thomas Arnason McNeil. 'Are we making sure that we are engaging fishing communities, indigenous communities that rely on the fishing economy at the earliest stages of project development?' Premier Tim Houston is attending meetings with other premiers and the prime minister to gather support for the project. 'We all see the opportunities that we have before us to make for a stronger country and we're all pushing in that direction,' says Houston. Five areas have been highlighted for potential wind farm development: French Bank Middle Bank Sable Island Bank Western/Emerald Bank. Sydney Bight Four are off the province's eastern shore, the other is off Cape Breton. Wind farm A fishing boat passes the West Pubnico Point Wind Farm in Lower West Pubnico, N.S. on Monday, Aug. 9, 2021. (Andrew Vaughan) For more Nova Scotia news, visit our dedicated provincial page
National Post
2 days ago
- Politics
- National Post
Preston Manning: How to remake Canada after a secession vote
Article content Exploring the potential parallels between the original confederation conferences and any Re-Confederation Conference a little further: who would be the present day equivalents of Charles Tupper and Leonard Tilley, vigorously championing the interests of Atlantic Canada? Who would be the equivalents of George-Étienne Cartier and George Brown, vigorously representing the divergent interests of Quebec and Ontario? Who would be the present day champions of those regions and interests conspicuously absent from the original confederation discussions — the champions of the interests of Canada West, the northern territories, and Canada's indigenous peoples? And would the re-founders include the equivalent of a John A. Macdonald — someone with the stature, skills, lubricating capacity, and luck required to even keep any Re-Confederation Conference from blowing apart, let alone giving birth to Canada Next? Article content Finally, what might be the major demands and concessions that the principal participants in such a conference would bring to the re-confederation table? Article content Article content Quebec would of course be expected to press its sovereignty association demand in one form or another. And this time there is unlikely to be strong and charismatic champions, within or outside Quebec, for 'Please Stay, Don't Leave.' Certainly the current prime minister — an anglophone banker who speaks French poorly and despises nationalism — is ill-equipped to play that role. And under current circumstances, several of the western provinces might be inclined to support Quebec's ultimate assertion of sovereignty, provided one of the terms of its future 'association' with Canada was an ironclad agreement to provide an open energy/transportation corridor across its territory to the Atlantic. Article content Conceding sovereignty association to Quebec, however reluctantly, might also cause Canada West to rethink its own position within any re-confederated Canada. What if Canada West were to simply take Quebec's vacated place within the federation — its 3 seats on the Supreme Court, its 24 seats in the Senate, and the majority of its seats in the Commons? Might Quebec conditionally 'out' and Canada West more effectively 'in,' largely alleviate the strains that both Quebec nationalism and western alienation currently place on the federation? Article content Article content Besides Quebec arriving at any future Re-Confederation Conference with its well thought out sovereignty-association proposition, it would behoove the other major components of the Canadian federation to think through how they would rewrite the constitution of Canada if they had the opportunity to do so. Article content Canada West, in particular, should be prepared to come to any such conference with its own clearly thought out redraft of the current constitution — a redrafted constitution in which any future Senate is made democratically accountable and genuinely representative of regional interests; a redrafted constitution in which the currently inequitable equalization formula is made largely unnecessary because Quebec is now on its own and each of the remaining provinces is sufficiently equipped and responsible to carry its own weight; and a redrafted constitution now completely devoid of those current clauses which give the federal government the means of overriding the constitutionally defined division of powers between the central and provincial governments.
CTV News
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- CTV News
Rare colourful lobsters continue to draw crowds at Nova Scotia aquarium
A pair of colourful crustaceans have become a major attraction in Atlantic Canada. Paul Hollingsworth has the details. A pair of rare lobsters have become a must-see attraction in Dartmouth, N.S. People are arriving in large numbers at the Back to the Sea Centre for a first-hand look at the unique combination straight from the sea: two multi-coloured lobsters. 'This weekend, we had the record number of visitors for this whole summer,' said Back to the Sea employee Enya Hickey. The colourful lobsters are called Bingo and Moon Mist. Bingo is named after a character in the children's TV show 'Bluey,' while Moon Mist resembles the colour of the ice cream. Moon Mist the lobster Moon Mist the lobster at the Back to the Sea Centre in Dartmouth, N.S. (Paul Hollingsworth/CTV News) 'Moon mist is a classic Nova Scotia flavour,' said Hickey. 'I saw blue lobsters before, but I never saw one like Bingo, that was split perfectly down tail with two different colours.' 'I've never seen a lobster before that looks like that, in my whole life,' said David Leonard, who is visiting from Toronto. 'How rare? I don't know.' According to Hickey, the chances of finding a lobster in Moon Mist's colour is one in 100 million. Bingo's colour is one in 50 million. Bingo the lobster Bingo the lobster at the Back to the Sea Centre in Dartmouth, N.S. (Paul Hollingsworth/CTV News) Both lobsters were caught by local fisherman and donated to the marine facility by a seafood store. They have quickly become a major tourist attraction. The unique lobsters are a draw for people to visit the Dartmouth side of Halifax Harbour during the busy summer season. 'People can go and visit the lobsters and the touch tank, and see what's in the sea around us,' said Tim Rissesco from the Downtown Dartmouth Business Commission. 'And then they will hopefully stop for an ice cream, or a lunch in Dartmouth.' Moon Mist and Bingo will continue to entertain tourists and visitors until Aug. 4. After that, they both will be released back into the Atlantic Ocean.
CTV News
3 days ago
- Health
- CTV News
‘Having people in place overnight might have saved my brother': Sister reacts to funding for an overnight outreach van in Fredericton
The federal government is spending $2.8 million to combat the overdose crisis across Atlantic Canada. Sarah Plowman has the details.
