Category: Sydney

Atlantic Canadians are reminded to adjust their clocks tomorrow or tonight before going to bed, as daylight saving time ends.

Items that may need adjusting include microwaves, car clocks, watches, automatic timer lights, and many other household devices.

It is also a good opportunity to change batteries in smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors.

Smoke detectors should be tested monthly and replaced every 10 years.

A judge in Halifax has dismissed charges against a magazine writer accused of breaching a publication ban.

Andrew Douglas, writer for the satire and gossip magazine Frank, was charged shortly after writing a story about the murder of Truro police officer Catherine Campbell.

Police say the story broke the ban.

Douglas claimed the story was researched, written and published before the ban was in place.