By Mackenzie Myatt
Declining participation in the Eastern Shore Minor Hockey Association (ESMHA) has prompted another proposal to officially partner or merge with the Cole Harbour Minor Hockey Association. The issue is likely to be a topic of debate at the ESMHA’s Annual General Meeting on Sunday, May 26that 6:30pm in the Bingo Hall.
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Letter to the Editor
The Provincial Government has granted Cermaq Canada, a fully owned subsidiary of the giant Japanese industrial company Mitsubishi, four options to lease sites in the Chedabucto Bay and St Mary’s region for Marine based Fish Farms. BUT this is just the start. The company hopes to obtain about 20 salmon farm licenses in Nova Scotia.
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Patty Hajdu, Minister of Employment, Workforce Development, and Labour, sent a letter on April 25 to Central Nova MP Sean Fraser letting him know that she had assigned officials to consult with Statistics Canada to work on coming up with an "equitable" way for HRM's 3 rural hospitals to participate in the federal Student Loan Forgiveness Program for Family Nurses and doctors. For background on this story, go to "Feds Moving to End Rural Hospital Injustice."
Minister Hajdu's letter.
By Richard Bell
The weather’s getting warm enough to start worrying about one of the downsides of the great outdoors, Lyme disease, from the bite of a blacklegged tick infected with the Borrelia burgdorferi bacterium that causes the disease.
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By Richard Bell
The Cooperator’s investigation of the injustice of HRM’s rural residents being denied access to a federal loan forgiveness program for family doctors and nurses has resulted in a major step towards righting this injustice. If all goes well, HRM’s three rural hospitals will be getting a powerful new tool for recruiting more doctors and nurses to end their frequent emergency room closures for lack of staff.
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By Richard Bell
MLA John Lohr’s question last Thursday in the House of Assembly (about ending the injustice preventing HRM’s three rural hospitals from participating in the federal Student Loan Forgiveness Program for Family Doctors and Nurses) has stirred up interest across the political spectrum.
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By Richard Bell
The fight to end the injustice of HRM’s rural residents being denied access to a federal loan forgiveness program for family doctors and nurses popped up on the floor of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly on Thursday afternoon.
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By Richard Bell
An investigation by the Cooperator has uncovered a route for making it easier for the three rural hospitals within the boundaries of HRM to recruit doctors and nurses.
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By Laurie Cook
[Note: Laurie Cook wrote the following open letter after learning of the tragic story of 20-year-old Anthony Nauss’s suicide. Last November, Nauss had gone to the emergency room at the Halifax infirmary because he was feeling suicidal, with a history of previous suicide attempts. He was told to go home and make an appointment with the provincial health services. There were no appointments available until January, and a week later, Nauss killed himself.]
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