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Sep 7, 2017

Nova Scotia unions ask to be included in legal review of wage-freeze law

Meagan Gillmore

Unions in Nova Scotia are asking to be included in a legal review of a bill that restricts wage increases for public servants and, they say, infringes on their rights to collectively bargain.

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Sep 7, 2016

Red flags for Nova Scotia Liberals in next provincial election

Stephen Kimber

Could the answer to the pressing-to-pundits question -- why hasn't Stephen McNeil called the much-anticipated-by-pundits fall provincial general election? -- be... "Halifax Needham."

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Aug 17, 2016

Foundering ferry deal leaves Nova Scotia holding the purse

Stephen Kimber

As a new ferry sails through the same passenger-challenged, money-losing storm en route to the same subsidized disaster, should the premier still be unconditionally committed to it?

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Aug 15, 2016

Nursing home staff lose jobs as provincial government cuts begin to roll out

Workers received notice of layoffs, or reduced hours of work, this week at the Port Hawkesbury Nursing Home in Nova Scotia. The layoffs are the result of $6.7 million in budget cuts to long-term care.

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Jul 27, 2016

Latest numbers on Nova Scotia's ferry deal lead to sinking conclusions

Stephen Kimber

Transportation Minister Geoff MacLellan doesn't want you to jump to conclusions. Unfortunately for him, Portland, Maine requires the Yarmouth-Portland ferry operator to submit a monthly accounting.

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Jul 20, 2016

Silence on Nova Scotia highway financing signals election may be ahead

Stephen Kimber

It's hard not to suspect there is more at play in Transportation Minister Geoff MacLellan's insistence there's been no decision on whether to charge how much in tolls and/or how to finance it all.

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Jun 29, 2016

As Nova Scotia's P3 school leases expire, government has opportunity to get out of the P3 shell game

Stephen Kimber

P3 shell-game deals, which don't show up as government debt, are "typically used to conceal government expenditures and provide guaranteed long-term profits for contractors."

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May 25, 2016

Spring brings new growth in opposition to Nova Scotia's Liberals

Stephen Kimber

Perhaps the most intriguing news from Nova Scotia's Province House this spring has been the tentative flowering -- finally -- of a real opposition to the McNeil government.

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Feb 23, 2016

Nova Scotia Power outages generate outrage... and questions about the wisdom of privatization

Stephen Kimber

It is well past time the McNeil government and/or the Utility and Review Board ordered an audit of Nova Scotia Power's performance going back to before it was turned back over to the private sector.

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Feb 2, 2016

Changes to Nova Scotia pharmacare program don't add up

Stephen Kimber

On Jan. 15, Nova Scotia's Health and Wellness department -- Leo Glavine, proprietor -- issued a gauzy, feel-fine press release headlined, "Lower Seniors' Pharmacare Co-pays Begin April 1."

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