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The winds have calmed and lobster fishermen are expected to dump traps from 1,700 boats around the southwest coast today.
Dumping day was delayed from yesterday by DFO after consultation with fisheries groups concerned about safety with yesterday’s high winds.
People who have had heart surgery at the QEII or IWK in the last several years are being notified about a risk of infection, about 4,000 patients.
The Nova Scotia Health Authority says devices used to heat and cool blood during heart surgeries have been linked elsewhere to a rare bacterial infection.
Officials say the risk is low, and there have been no reports of infections in our hospitals; but there have been in other parts of North America and Europe, including Montreal.