Winter storm packing high winds snow sweeps into Maritime provinces News Sports Entertainment Radio TV My Region Member Centre Login Sign UpHalifax (Shearwater) Change City6c Tomorrow5c Periods of rain Home World Canada BC Calgary Edmonton Saskatchewan Manitoba Thunder Bay Sudbury Windsor Toronto Ottawa Montreal NB PEI NS NL North Politics Health Arts & Entertainment Music Film Television Books Media Art & Design Theatre Technology & Science Money Consumer Life Diversions Weather Your Voice Story Tools EMAIL PRINT Text Size S M L XL REPORT TYPO SEND YOUR FEEDBACK Winter storm packing high winds snow sweeps into Maritime provincesPublished Wednesday December 9 2009 904 PM ET Canadian Press THE CANADIAN PRESS HALIFAX NS A storm packing snow and high winds that swept through Central Canada hit the Maritime provinces on Wednesday The storm was forecast to dump snow ice pellets and rain on the Maritime region High winds were expected to be a concern with gusts of 100 kilometres an hour forecast along the coast especially near Halifax About 20 to 30 centimetres of snow was forecast for southwestern New Brunswick and the provinces Miramichi area Lesser amounts of snow were forecast for Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island The Canadian Press 2009Story Tools EMAIL PRINT Text Size S M L XL REPORT TYPO SEND YOUR FEEDBACK Continue Article2010 Cadillac CTSReward Your Success This Holiday! Buy A Cadillac 2010 CTS SedanGMcaAtlanticCadillac15% ROI Canadian REITFree eBook Shows You How To Profit From Canadian Revenue PropertieswwwLeaguecaMarketing MagazineGet Marketing News Susbscribe Now!MarketingMagcaTop CBCNewsca HeadlinesCBCNewsca World Canada Politics Health Arts & Entertainment Technology & Science Money Consumer Life Diversions Your Voice HeadlinesThousands cheer Olympic torch on Parliament Hill A cheering flagwaving crowd of 15000 people including Prime Minister Stephen Harper gathered Saturday night on Parliament Hill to welcome the Olympic torch to the nations capital and turn on 350000 Christmas lights Activists rally for climate deal Protesters marched in cities around the globe on Saturday to pressure political leaders to sign a legally binding climate change deal in Copenhagen in the coming week Gillette phasing Tiger Woods out of ad campaigns Gillette a major sponsor of Tiger Woods will phase the worlds most valuable athlete out of its advertisements while he takes time off to repair his personal life MD blames Don Cherry for hockey violence A Toronto neurosurgeon speaking at a Regina seminar about concussions in hockey says the promotion of an aggressive style of play by commentators like Don Cherry is contributing to serious injuries in the sport Winds may hamper Maritime travel until Sunday pm Winds of up to 133 kmh have restricte...