It will be 10 years next month since Jordan Boyd died suddenly during his first practice with the Acadie-Bathurst Titan. His death caused his parents to start the Jordan Boyd Foundation, which has made life-saving cardiac arrest supplies more accessible.
Alexandre Caouette, a master's student from the University of New Brunswick, has placed prism traps in the tops of some of the city's ash trees for samples of the emerald ash borer.
Beginning Monday, Halifax Regional Municipality will begin to remove 80 ash trees from a park in Bedford. Many of the trees are dead or in poor condition due to damage caused by the emerald ash borer, a beetle that feeds on the species.
The Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM) is cutting down and replacing 80 of its ash trees in and around DeWolf Park in an effort to manage a highly destructive beetle infestation.