Affordable housing, anyone? After nearly two years of promising to do something about it, the City’s draft Centre Plan being discussed at a series of public meetings and online could actually deliver some of the 5,000 units promised by 2021. That is, if — and it’s a big IF — HRM regional council approves and...
Regulator gets final submissions on Nova Scotia Power’s “smart meter” plan
Consumer advocates say the utility hasn’t presented enough solid evidence to prove that installing digital meters to measure electricity usage won’t cost ratepayers more than it should.
Before the Utility and Review Board (UARB) approves Nova Scotia Power’s (NSP) plan to install “smart” meters across the province, both the Consumer Advocate and the Small Business Advocate feel the utility needs to smarten up its proposal. They say NSP hasn’t presented enough solid evidence to prove that installing digital meters to measure electricity...
Judge refuses to intervene in Lafarge’s tire-burning plan
A handful of citizens who live beside a cement plant in Brookfield, 10 kilometers south of Truro, have lost a court battle to prevent Lafarge Canada from burning tires for fuel. CABOT (Citizens Against the Burning of Tires) launched a judicial review of Environment Minister Iain Rankin’s decision last July approving the project. Yesterday, Nova...
UARB takes no action against Nova Scotia Power for its alleged conflicts of interest
When Chris Huskilson retires as president and CEO of Emera at the end of this month, there is nothing to prevent his successor Scott Balfour from assuming Huskilson’s executive position and continuing in his current role as the Chair of the Board at Emera-owned Nova Scotia Power. A decision Friday from the Province’s Utility and...
P3 or not P3
Plans for a VG replacement are heading towards the P3 cliff, and no one's at the wheel.
The provincial government is paying Deloitte half a million dollars to recommend whether the Province should use some type of a public-private-partnership (P3) to finance, build, and maintain two new outpatient centres. The outpatient centres will be part of the overall re-development of the QE2 Health Sciences Centre to replace services, 200 patient beds, and...
Just how safe are those rockets proposed to be launched from Canso?
A fuel called UDMH has a worrisome health record, and some scientists say it presents a danger to Nova Scotia and ocean creatures.
Sometime over the next few months, the top two municipal officials with the District of Guysborough will travel to Vandenburg Air Force base in California to watch a rocket launch. Municipal council voted to pay for a fact-finding trip — which includes an equally important visit to rocket fuel company United Paradyne — by CAO...
“Needlessly institutionalized” hearing continues
Panel hears that the wait list for people wanting to move from mental institutions to homes in the community continues to grow.
The second day of a human rights inquiry about whether people with intellectual disabilities continue to be “needlessly institutionalized” in Nova Scotia heard from an expert public policy researcher on the topic. Michael Bach has spent 35 years as the managing director of IRIS, Ontario’s Institute for Research on Inclusion in Society. In late 2012,...
Judge may be asked to step away from Butlin murder case
Judge Al Bégin signed a no-contact order to keep Junior Duggan away from Susie Butlin. Duggan is now charged with murdering Butlin. Should Judge Bégin recuse himself from hearing the murder case?
The normally serene community of Tatamagouche was rocked last September by the murder of a 58-year-old woman named Susan (Susie) Butlin, who sold real estate and worked at a local restaurant. What made it even more difficult was the man accused of first-degree murder was Butlin’s next-door neighbour in Bayhead — a hamlet seven kilometres...
With Jamie Baillie off the stage, PCs hear from leadership hopefuls
Hundreds of Progressive Conservatives came to town for the party’s annual meeting in the ballroom of the Westin Hotel last night looking for a leader. The “Tory Proud” slide shows playing at top volume on the big screens bookending a humongous Nova Scotia flag kept coming back to reassuring images of former Premier John Hamm...
Needlessly institutionalized
People have been locked into a psychiatric ward at the Nova Scotia Hospital for "no medical or legal reason," says lawyer Vince Calderhead.
A board of inquiry got underway yesterday into a complaint under the Nova Scotia Human Rights Act which has the potential to change the way the provincial government treats people with disabilities. “The outcome of this case,” says Jean Coleman, “could make a good life in the community possible for all people with disabilities.” Coleman...
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