{"id":61546,"date":"2026-01-05T13:15:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T17:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=61546"},"modified":"2026-01-05T13:15:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T17:15:18","slug":"public-works-alerting-nova-scotians-to-scam-regarding-senior-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=61546","title":{"rendered":"Public works alerting Nova Scotians to scam regarding senior drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56506&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>HALIFAX:<\/strong> The province Department of Public Works is advising Nova Scotians of a scam making its way through N.S. and Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The department said on it&#8217;s X (formerly Twitter) account that there are a lot of fake stories and social media posts out there saying driving rules are changing for seniors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;There is no truth to this,&#8221; the department said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They added that there are no changes planned in Nova Scotia in 2026. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This is part of a misinformation campaign spreading across Canada,&#8221; the department said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56179&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56526&#8243;]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HALIFAX: The province Department of Public Works is advising Nova Scotians of a scam making its way through N.S. and Canada. The department said on it&#8217;s X (formerly Twitter) account that there are a lot of fake stories and social media posts out there saying driving rules are changing for seniors. &#8220;There is no truth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61547,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[3069,10046,1401,48,1077,10047,300,49],"class_list":["post-61546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-department-of-public-works","tag-fake-scam","tag-misinformation","tag-n-s","tag-nova-scotia","tag-senior-drivers","tag-seniors","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}