The largest infrastructure project in the province’s history got the once-over from the legislature’s Public Accounts Committee yesterday. It will be at least the end of 2026 before the patients putting up with what some doctors have described as “third world conditions” in the leaking Victoria General Hospital will be moved out. The bad news...
Health Authority craps on healthy transportation
The Nova Scotia Health Authority sent a letter to Halifax council opposing the South Park Street bike lane.
The Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA) has taken a surprise position on the expansion and improvement of the South Park Street bike lane: they’re against it. At least they are against the disruption to available on-street parking that it might cause. In a letter to city council dated March 5, 2018 (the day before council...
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...
Community Outpatient Centre Announced
The province’s purchase of 15 acres in the Bayers Lake Business Park to build a new Community Outpatient Centre was supposed to be a good news announcement for the McNeil government today. Certainly for those interested in seeing a replacement for services housed in the leaky and decrepit Victoria General Hospital — where you can’t drink the […]