POLICE FOUND more than just smuggled firearms when they raided two Halifax addresses Wednesday.

In addition to machine-guns and assault rifles, the officers found masks, maps of the Halifax area and a book on learning to kill, The Chronicle Herald has learned.

SYDNEY — The Justice Department could start poaching management staff from jails across the province for emergency coverage at the Cape Breton Correctional Facility after nine employees refused to work Thursday night upon learning the facility contains asbestos.

And the department says any new inmates could be sent to Nova Scotia’s four other jails, where some prisoners have already complained of overcrowding.

INVERNESS — Nova Scotia fishing boats were allowed through a blockade inside the narrows of Inverness Harbour on Friday to unload their crab trapped off western Cape Breton, but none of their New Brunswick counterparts licensed to ply the same waters were so lucky.

More than a dozen brightly coloured Cape Islanders cluttered the channel leading from the sheltered Inverness wharf to the sea and blocked four New Brunswick boats for a second day from leaving the wharf to set their traps.

It’s flushed down your toilet, flows to a sewage treatment plant, is trucked out to a plant near Halifax Stanfield International Airport, and as of Thursday, it’s being shipped out to farmers’ fields across the province.

The mayor of Halifax Regional Municipality says the city’s sewage will eventually be worth $350,000 a year.