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The Atlantic Lottery is telling New Brunswickers and Newfoundlanders to check their Lotto Max tickets.
The organization says a ticket sold in Saint John, New Brunswick for the Friday draw of Lotto Max is worth a million dollars.
A ticket sold in Corner Brook, Newfoundland for the same draw is worth 500-thousand-dollars.
(The Canadian Press)
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The Nova Scotia R-C-M-P’s street crime enforcement unit says it has arrested a man after a months-long drug trafficking investigation.
On Thursday, officers executed a search warrant at a home in Digby as part of an investigation that started in September.
Police say officers arrested a 64-year-old man and seized more than one kilogram of cocaine, cash and electronic devices.
The man will appear in Digby Provincial Court on March 9th to face charges for drug trafficking, possessing property obtained by crime and breaching his probation.
(The Canadian Press)
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Police in Halifax have charged a man with attempted murder after a shooting in East Preston that investigators have described as a case of intimate partner violence.
Officers were dispatched Thursday to the west end of Highway 7, where they were told a man got out of his vehicle and fired shots at a woman driving south.
The woman was not injured and the man fled the scene.
Mounties say the man was arrested nearby in Loon Lake with help from Halifax Regional Police.
(The Canadian Press)
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Newfoundland and Labrador’s opposition party is calling on government to remove the provincial sales tax from electricity bills to provide relief to residents struggling with the cost of living.
The Liberal party says that since a seven per cent increase in electricity rates was approved, residents are starting to feel the squeeze even more as temperatures drop.
Liberal leader John Hogan says government ought to be providing cost relief by removing its sales tax, and says the action should have been taken before the Christmas holidays.
(VOCM)
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Officials in Nova Scotia say they’ve made improvements to the child-welfare system since the death of a young Yarmouth boy just weeks after he returned home from foster care.
The 17-month-old died in 2020 when his mother, who pleaded guilty to manslaughter this week, threw him from a bed onto a hardwood floor during a diaper change.
Officials say they’ve hired more social workers, increased their pay and have doubled the amount spent on prevention and early intervention.
The government says the number of children in foster care is much lower than it was five years ago. (CBC News)
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At some point next year, Nova Scotians will no longer be eligible to receive up to 15-thousand dollars in federal funding to switch from oil to a heat pump.
Natural Resources Canada says while the Oil to Heat Pump Affordability Program is scheduled to end in 2027 in other parts of Canada, it will wrap up next year in Nova Scotia.
The department told C-T-V that due to high demand for the program, funding in Nova Scotia for the program will be used up in 2026.
According to Natural Resources Canada, more than 9-thousand homes received heat pump rebates in Nova Scotia in the last three years.
(CTV News)
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(Atlantic Update by The
