A set of directives for culture in the province penned over ten years ago is still in the process of being rewritten.
Last
year, the government announced they were consulting with residents and
cultural stakeholders to update the current cultural policy.
The
Minister of Tourism, Heritage and Culture Trevor Holder tells CHSJ News
they had an election promise to renew the document, and in the meantime,
there have been a host of public engagement opportunities around the
province over the last year. That public consultation component of the
cultural policy renewal has already wrapped up.
The last cultural policy was adopted back in 2002 under Premier Bernard Lord.
Police are investigating a blaze they say was deliberately set outside the RCMP station in Elsipogtog First Nation on Friday.
The fire
started on the outside of the building but members of the community and
fire crews kept it from spreading. A 14-year-old boy and a 15-year-old
boy were arrested in connection to the fire but were later released.
The Elsipogtog First Nation is the site of last week's violent clash between shale gas protestors and RCMP.
Canadian
figure skaters Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford winning bronze in the
pairs free program as Skate Canada International continues at Harbour
Station.
Italian duo Stefania Berton and Ondrej Hotarek took the gold.
Hotarak
told reporters following the performance they are just happy to be here
saying they tried to do their best as they always do and today they had a
little bit of luck.
Duhamel says they are not used to very high artistic scores and lower technical scores.
Radford says he thinks that program has podium potential at the Olympics.
Wenjing Sui and Cong Han of China won the silver medal.
