Speaker Keith Bain tried repeatedly to kickstart a debate on whether Nova Scotia MLAs should get a cost of living increase to their budgets and allowances. But the chair of the House of Assembly management commission was met by silence when it went up for discussion.
As of Friday, 142,262 people are on the registry, or about 14.3 per cent of the provincial population. The list increased by 3.4 per cent from last month.
One in seven Nova Scotians are now unattached to a primary health-care provider.
That news from the provincial Health Department’s monthly report as of .
Government officials say they believe they have a handle on the budget for renovating an unfinished hotel so it can be transformed into a site to accept patients who no longer need hospital beds, but who those patients will be is still not known.
Many workers at a Dartmouth, N.S., hotel being turned into a homeless shelter are expected to lose their jobs at the end of the month, says their union.