It’s provincial by-election day in Cumberland South.
The seat was left vacant when former Progressive Conservative leader Jamie Baillie resigned in January over harassment claims against him.
The PC’s, Liberals, NDP and Green Party are all running candidates in the by-election.
The polls close at 8:00 tonight and Elections Nova Scotia will provide live unofficial results online.
The Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation says net income was down in the last fiscal year.
It says the 238.6 million earned between April 1st of 2017 and March 31st of this year represents a drop of 600-thousand dollars compared to the year before.
However, it says the total volume of alcohol sold increased 0.9 per cent in the last fiscal year.
Total sales added up to $625.7 million.
It also says sales of Nova Scotia-produced wine, spirits, and craft beer all increased.
The riding of Sydney-Victoria has the dubious distinction of making the top 10 on a list of federal ridings with the highest child poverty rates.
The Cape Breton constituency ranks 10th out of 338 ridings with a child poverty rate of 33 percent.
The national anti-poverty group Campaign 2000 put the list together.
The group hopes the data will prod the government to approve a soon-to-be-finalized poverty-reduction strategy before next year’s federal election.
It’s looking for the creation of what it calls a federal dignity dividend of $1,800 for every adult and child who live below the poverty line.
It says the move would be like a top up to the GST credit and could help lift hundreds of thousands out of poverty.
Two former New Waterford area MLA’s have died.
James Buddy McEachern died on Friday in Dartmouth at the age of 77 after a long battle with Alzheimer’s Disease.
McEachern won Cape Breton Centre for the NDP in 1974.
He served as interim NDP leader for just over a month before Alexa McDonough became the party’s first female leader in 1980.
And former Cape Breton Centre MLA Russell MacNeil died in Halifax on Saturday.
MacNeil held the riding for the Liberals between 1989 and 1993.
He was 87.
Jackie MacNeil says that when she hears someone mention rain, she gets a knot in her stomach.
The Canso Drive woman was among over a hundred Sydney residents in attendance at yesterday’s public information session on proposed flood control measures for Wash Brook.
Members of the municipality’s engineering department and representatives from engineering firm CBCL were on hand to answer any questions.
Also in attendance were municipal politicians, including Mayor Cecil Clarke, along with provincial MLA Derek Mombourquette and federal MP Mark Eyking.
CBCL engineer Victoria Fernandez says the best solution to mitigate flooding is what’s known as Option 15, which involves adding berms and creating stormwater storage.
The municipality will apply for federal funding in co-operation with other municipalities in the province; the threshold to qualify for the federal program is $20 million.
The municipality’s share of that funding based on project estimates is $3.5 million.