Category: Halifax

Flooded homes in Sydney to come down next month

Damaged, derelict houses in the flood zone of Sydney should start coming down next month.

Municipal Affairs Minister Derek Mombourquette confirmed yesterday 18 buildings that were damaged beyond repair in the Thanksgiving flood will be demolished starting next month and the work should be done early in the fall.

The announcement came one day after yet another fire in one of the abandoned buildings on St. peter’s Road which is considered suspicious. The damaged houses have been the target of vandals for months and neighbours are concerned fires could spread to their homes.

Omar Khadr compensation

Reaction has been mixed, and in some cases furious, that the Trudeau Government has agreed to apologize and pay former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr $10.5 million.

Some on social media see Khadr as a terribly abused child soldier deserving of compensation but others still see him as a terrorist killer.

Khadr pleaded guilty to five war crimes in the grenade death of an American soldier. He sued Ottawa for $20 million in 2004 alleging Ottawa breached his rights by failing to protect him and colluding with the Americans in his mistreatment.