Category: Halifax

The dangers of walking and texting.

A university student, distracted by his phone, walked off a pier on the Halifax waterfront Friday and into the harbour. His friends quickly hauled him out.  He wasn’t injured…but he was taken to hospital anyway because of the cold water.

Junior Achievement of Nova Scotia is warning the public there’s a fake fundraising campaign going around.

A number of young people wearing junior achievement badges have been seen selling chocolate bars door-to-door and in grocery store parking lots at different places in the provinces…Haluifax, Bridgewater New Glasgow. Junior Achievement says it has no such campaign underway…and these people are ripping you off. The money is not going to charity.