NS might escape boost in softwood lumber duties

Provincial Trade Minister Michel Samson is hoping Nova Scotia mills won’t be on a list of softwood lumber tariffs expected from the Trump administration today.

Samson says the American lumber lobby has exempted Nova Scotia from its list of targets for the 20% duty, as it has in the past. But he also told CBC it’s not clear whether the Trump administration will go along with that recommendation.

Another murder added to Major Unsolved Crimes Program

Halifax Police and the province have added an unsolved homicide to the major crimes reward program which offers up to $150,000 for tips leading to the conviction of the person responsible.

27 year old John Fulton Newcombe was fatally shot outside Winston’s Pub in the shopping plaze on Lacewood Drive early on June 1st, 2012.

Superintendent Jim Perrin says investigators have run into a lack of co-operation from those who know what happened, but aren’t talking and they need someone to break the code of silence.