N.S. launches doctor recruitment drive
HALIFAX: Premier Tim Houston launched a recruitment campaign on March 7, to bring more doctors home to Nova Scotia. Doctors who go to the Come Home to Nova Scotia website…
Restrictions set to begin easing Feb. 14 in N.S. as part of three-step phase
HALIFAX: Nova Scotia will start easing provincewide COVID-19 restrictions on Feb. 14. This will be done over three phases. “While we still need to be cautious, things are moving in…
CCA’s in Nova Scotia to get wage increase, province announces
HALIFAX: Continuing care assistants (CCAs) in N.S. are receiving an approximate increase of 23 per cent in their pay effective Feb. 10, so they will become the highest paid in…
Province adding 500 new long-term care beds; work continues on 27 facilities
HALIFAX: Nova Scotia will add 500 new beds in the long-term care system and is following through on commitments to build or renovate facilities across the province. The 500 beds…
N.S. intervening to halt proposed net-metering charges
HALIFAX: The provincial government says it will protect solar homeowners and small businesses in the solar industry with regulations that will stop the proposed net-metering charge in Nova Scotia Power’s…
NSAR; Proposed provincial taxes jeopardizes homeownership
HALIFAX: The Tim Houston government has proposed out-of-province ownership taxes that are causing serious concern for the Nova Scotia Association of REALTORS® (NSAR) and their 1,900 members across the province.…
VIDEO: No blanket mandatory vaccination policy coming for N.S., Premier Houston says
HALIFAX: At the Jan. 13 presser with media following a cabinet meeting, Premier Tim Houston answered questions asked by media. The Laker News was among the reporters who did get…
COVID-19: N.S. reports three deaths; 29 new hospital admissions; 19 discharges Jan. 10
HALIFAX: Since the last COVID-19 update in N.S., the province has had 29 new hospital admissions and 19 dischrages. There have also been three deaths related to the disease: —…
COVID-19: one death, 678 new cases reported, long-term care, hospital outbreaks, SOE renewed
HALIFAX: The province is reporting one death related to COVID-19 on Jan. 7. A woman in her 80s in Central Zone has died. It cannot be confirmed that she had…
Province opening paid sick leave program Jan. 10 due to COVID-19
HALIFAX: To slow the spread of COVID-19, Nova Scotians are asked to stay home from work if they’re sick. Applications for the Province’s COVID-19 Paid Sick Leave Program open Monday,…