Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp users found themselves unable to get into their social media this morning.
Traffic-monitoring website DownDetector says the three social media platforms went down around 7:30 this morning.
Locally, service seems to have resumed normally, while users in Europe and Asia are still reporting difficulties connecting.
There is no word yet on the cause of the outage from Facebook, which owns all three services.
The Florence Volunteer Fire Department is fed up with Cape Breton’s “fire season.”
In a Facebook post published this morning, the department says they’ll be followed by law enforcement officers who will press charges against those who choose to ignore burn restrictions.
The department says their firefighters are overwhelmed and exhausted, and other departments routinely jump boundaries at this time of year to help even more overwhelmed departments.
The Florence Fire Department says it’s been responding to a string of fires since five thirty this morning.
The spring sitting of the provincial Legislature is expected to wrap up today.
The House of Assembly is due to sit from 9:00 until noon.
The government passed a budget during the session, projecting a small surplus of 33.6 million dollars.
The sitting was also highlighted by continued criticism from opposition parties over the government’s handling of healthcare.
The province also became the first jurisdiction in North American to introduce legislation that presumes consent for organ donation.
The price of gas took another big jump, overnight.
Gas went up by 3.7 cents a litre and now goes for a minimum of $1.31.1 in Cape Breton.
Diesel went up by 1.9 cents and now costs a minimum of $1.24.5 cents a litre on the Island.
Analysts are predicting another jump in the price of gas this week.
An increase of about 3 cents a litre is being forecast.
Meanwhile, the price of gas in New Brunswick went up by 4.2 cents a litre, last night.
Diesel there fell slightly by two-tenths of a cent.
The minimum price for a litre of gas in Cape Breton is now $1.27.4.
Diesel now goes for a minimum of $1.22.6 cents a litre on the Island.