Crews are working hard to patch all of the potholes around Halifax as commuter traffic is expected to pick up with more people heading back to the office. Maybe there's another option to help with traffic, and rising transportation costs.

It's the Monday after the time change and for many, it's a struggle to get going. And here we go again with the bi-annual debate over whether or not we want to keep up this tradition.

The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic on this day, two years ago. Public Health restrictions are ending in Nova Scotia and across much of Canada, but there's no pending announcement that the pandemic is over.

We've all seemed to have grown weary over the past two years of the pandemic. And apparently, it hasn't brought out the best in people according to Angus Reid.

The legal jeopardy for the mass killer's common law has ended. And she'll be giving her first interview to the Mass Casualty Commission as early as today. We won't get that information right away, but several other witnesses, including front line officers will be heard in just a few weeks.

They used to describe gas prices as rocketing up and feathering down. The three stage interrupter clause booster has put the cost of a fill up, way up in recent days. And there's one way of giving relief to Nova Scotians, maybe starting with the tax on tax.

Conspiracy theories are a curious thing to me. And when I see layers of conspiracies, I wonder why that cake doesn't just fall over. And why people are still serving up slices of the absurd.

It's been a week since the Mass Casualty Commission gave us all a chance to look at the evidence gathered around the massacre in 2020. Let's hope they answer the questions that families have about that evidence.

Their lawyer is arguing it would be violating the spirit of the goal of being "trauma informed" if RCMP members are forced to testify at the Mass Casualty Inquiry. And once again, if they aren't there, it undermines the goals of accountability and responsibility.

With hundreds of thousands of documents and exhibits already presented, there's a lot of information to consider by the Mass Casualty Commission. And family says there's an obvious way to clear up the gaps and errors in the timeline and it involves hearing from Lisa Banfield directly.