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The Irving shipyard in Halifax is beginning to cut steel for the Royal Canadian Navy’s next generation of warships, though it’ll be about 10-years before the ships are operational.
The 15 warships also received their official designation as River Class destroyers today, recognizing Canada’s major waterways and recalling a class name last used during the Second World War.
The navy says the first ships will be named for the Fraser, St. Lawrence and Assiniboine Rivers.
Final, detailed contracts for the ship’s construction haven’t been signed yet and aren’t expected until late 2024 or early 2025.
(The Canadian Press)
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R-C-M-P in Newfoundland and Labrador say they are investigating after two officers were injured in a collision.
Police say they received a report of a suspected impaired driver who was last seen in Grand Bank around 9 a-m on Wednesday.
The driver allegedly switched into the oncoming lane when he saw the two marked cars, forcing the officers to swerve to avoid a head-on collision, but one of the vehicles hit the other.
The Mounties say the driver was arrested a short distance later, released from custody and is set to attend court at a later date, while the officers are recovering.
(The Canadian Press)
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Nova Scotia’s regulator has ruled that customers will pay nearly 35 million dollars in costs wracked up by Nova Scotia Power in its response to post-tropical storm Fiona in 2022.
The Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board has assigned July 1st as the start date for a 10-year amortization schedule, meaning the private utility has to start paying down the costs at the start of next month.
However, Nova Scotia Power will have to wait until the next time it applies to the board to set rates, so the effect on power bills isn’t known yet.
Natural Resources Minister Tory Rushton noted yesterday that the province opposed the deferral and will be talking to the utility and he also pledged that his department is “here to protect ratepayers.”
(CBC NS)
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Marine Atlantic says there will be further delays on its Argentia, Newfoundland route because of problems with its new ferry the Ala’suinu.
The ferry service says experts are working to clean debris from the vessel’s fuel and lubrication system.
As a result, Argentia crossings up to July 10th will be cancelled and re-routed through Port aux Basques with additional crossings by the Blue Puttees, Highlanders, and Leif Ericson.
The ferry service operates between the island of Newfoundland and North Sydney, Nova Scotia.
(The Canadian Press)
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Police in Saint John, New Brunswick, are asking the public’s help in finding a 42-year-old man who is wanted on a Canada-wide arrest warrant.
They say Vincent Currie is serving a nearly six-and-a-half year sentence on a number of convictions including robbery, possession of a weapon contrary to prohibition order and unauthorized possession of firearm.
Police say a warrant was issued yesterday for breaching the conditions of his statutory release.
They describe him as five feet eight inches tall, weighing about 200 pounds, with brown hair, and hazel eyes, a tattoo on his right calf and a “Nicole” tattoo on his right upper arm.
(The Canadian Press)
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Canada’s unofficial national colours will be on full display on Monday as Canadians don patriotic T-shirts, wave hand-held flags and hang bunting to celebrate their country.
Xavier Gélinas (zheh-LEE’-nuh), a curator at the Canadian Museum of History, says it has never been stated clearly, explicitly anywhere, that red and white are Canada’s official colours.
He also says the “marvel” of the red and white colours is in their ambiguity because their symbolism has not been defined.
He says it’s likely Canada’s red and white colours “evolved more organically” with red associated with England and white with France.
(The Canadian Press)
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(Atlantic Update by The Canadian Press)
