Nova Scotians already buried under as much as 80 centimetres of snow hunkered down and braced for even more on Sunday as a powerful storm hovering over the province was poised to linger well into a third day.
Cape Breton is set to receive its first-ever electric buses following an investment of over $50 million from the federal, provincial and regional governments.
No employees were underground during Sunday night's fire at Cape Breton’s Donkin coal mine, and the Nova Scotia Department of Labour is currently investigating the cause.
On Friday, the Donkin coal mine in Cape Breton got the green light to continue running until 2029 from the provincial government’s Environment and Climate Change department.
The desire to quickly rebuild after post-tropical storm Fiona is running up against challenges that existed before the hurricane-force winds left a trail of destruction in Nova Scotia: the rising cost of construction material and widespread skilled labour shortages.
"There's always lessons to be learned," the prime minister told reporters in Stanley Bridge, P.E.I., where a massive storm surge and hurricane-force winds upended buildings and tossed fishing boats onto the shore.
A day after post-tropical storm Fiona left a trail of destruction across Atlantic Canada and eastern Quebec, residents of a devastated coastal town in western Newfoundland learned one of their own was its first confirmed fatality.
Donkin — the only operational underground coal mine in Canada — closed in 2020 after a series of roof cave-ins and a provincial stop-work order. The ventilation fan that causes Donkin’s constant noise pulls fresh air into the mine to dilute methane and prevent explosions.