Premier Iain Rankin and the other eastern Canadian premiers are looking into getting leftover COVID-19 vaccines from the US.
The statement comes after Rankin and Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont co-chaired a meeting of New England governors and eastern Canadian premiers this morning.
The Premiers and Governors are sending a joint letter to Ottawa and Washington to help get the extra vaccine.
The province says the New England states have reported they have a significant percentage of their population vaccinated and they’re willing to share their leftover vaccine as a way of speeding up the reopening of borders and the economic recovery from the pandemic.
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Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont reached a deal between the state’s largest health care workers’ union and the nursing home industry late Thursday afternoon that would avert a strike Friday at 26 facilities. The nursing home operators still must finalize contract details with workers.
The agreement came two hours after the administration sweetened its offer to fund the industry in the next state budget. Nursing home operators still must finalize contract details with workers
“We have a basic agreement, which is a four-year deal, to put front-and-center our nurses who have been there at the nursing homes taking care of our seniors through thick and thin over the last 14 months,” Lamont said at 4:20 p.m. as he opened his televised briefing on the state’s coronavirus containment efforts. “And they will be getting a significant raise over the next four years.”
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Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont says his administration has received copies of strike postponement notices at 26 nursing homes from District 1199 SEIU and New England Health Care Employees Union.
The unions had planned to lead thousands workers on a strike Friday morning over staffing shortages and low-pay. The Democratic governor detailed the agreement Thursday afternoon.
“Which is a four-year deal that puts front and center our nurses who have been there at the nursing homes taking care of our seniors through thick and thin over the last of 14 months,” Lamont said. “They’ll be getting a significant raise over the next four years. We originally had a two-year deal, now it’s a four-year agreement.”
Law Professor Helps Change Laws Governing Police Use of Deadly Force
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11 May 2021, 21:35 GMT+10 WASHINGTON - Long before police brutality emerged as a dominant public issue in the United States, Cynthia Lee, a George Washington University professor and an expert on race and self-defense, devoted much of her research to deadly police shootings of unarmed Black men and women.
In a 2004 study, she concluded that stereotypes about African Americans, often working at a subconscious level, influenced a police officer s split-second decision about whether to use deadly force, accounting for the disproportionately large number of Black victims in police shootings.
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Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont rolled out a plan to invest $150 million in small businesses today. Connecticut nursing home workers are planning to strike, New York’s attorney general shades the Nassau County police department, and prison reform advocates want the state to do more for those who’ve been released.
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