The RCMP are investigating a shooting that took place early Monday morning in Pictou, N.S., and sent a 32-year-old man to hospital.

In a news release, police said officers responded to reports of a shooting just before 12:30 a.m. at a "commercial lodging."

It said a&nbsp;32-year-old man was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Spokesperson Sgt. Andrew Joyce described a commercial lodging as a hotel, motel, or inn.

The news release said there was&nbsp;a heavy police presence in the area Monday as the investigation continued.

Police believe the people involved are known to each other.

Customers call out banks for increasing fees during pandemic while profits are up

Bank customers from TD, BMO, CIBC and Scotiabank are fuming over increases to fees and service charges, which they say are particularly galling during a pandemic, when many Canadians are struggling to make ends meet. A banking critic says Ottawa needs to step in.

Audrey Williams, a longtime TD customer, says the increase in bank fees June 1st is “a shopping cart of money grabs” and galling during pandemic.

Audrey Williams

Several customers of Canada’s big banks reached out to Go Public with frustrations about increased bank fees during the pandemic. The fee increases come after each of the big five banks reported billions in profit for this year's first quarter.

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Nova Scotia reports 2 deaths, 74 new cases of COVID-19 Sunday

Nova Scotia reported two deaths and 74 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday.

Lorie Steinwand prepares a Pfizer vaccine at Sir John Franklin High School. The nurse is part of the territory's COVID immunization response team.

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Nova Scotia marked a milestone on Saturday with its 500,000th vaccine dose being administered

N.S. Public Health no longer issuing potential exposures

In a news release Wednesday, the province said it no longer has the "necessary information" to report exposure sites accurately.

Colourized scanning electron micrograph of an apoptotic cell (red) infected with SARS-COV-2 virus particles (yellow), also known as novel coronavirus, isolated from a patient sample. Image captured at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

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Most Nova Scotians who are positive for COVID-19 will identify and contact their close contacts, Public Health said.

'She gave me back part of my soul:' Pandemic border restrictions tie up service dog group

COVID-19 is disrupting the work of a non-profit group based in Nova Scotia that provides service dogs to first responders and military veterans with PTSD.

Jeff Wright

Jeff Wright is shown in Kabul, Afghanistan in 2007.

Doctors dig into own pockets to keep Sydney walk-in clinic open

Doctors at the main walk-in clinic in Sydney, N.S., are paying out of their own pockets to cover the overhead expenses after other doctors left and the province failed to provide any help.

Dr. Reggie Sebastian says he and two other doctors had no choice but to absorb extra overhead costs to keep the main walk-in clinic open in Sydney, N.S.

Dr. Reggie Sebastian

RCMP say they have a heavy presence in the Pictou area as they investigate the shooting.

Man in hospital after shooting in Pictou, N.S.

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