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MP Sean Fraser Wins Mental Health Award

The Canadian Alliance on Mental Illness and Mental Health (CAMIMH) has named Central Nova MP Sean Fraser as the winner in the Parliamentarian category its 2019 Champions of Mental Health.

May 01, 2019

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Porters Lake BID in the Works

By Richard Bell On May 2, the Harbour East Marine Drive Community Council is scheduled to vote on moving ahead with a proposal to set up a Porters Lake Business Improvement District (BID).

May 01, 2019

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MusGo Rider Planning Shore Bus Route

By Richard Bell With a presentation before the HRM Standing Committee on Transportation at the end of March, MusGo Rider took another step towards establishing a Fixed Loop Transit Service along Highway 207. The proposed 40km loop would run from Porter’s Lake Terminal along Highway 207 to the terminal in Portland Hills, with a connection to Cole Harbour Place.

May 01, 2019

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Heritage Village Going 100% Solar

By Richard Bell Memory Lane Heritage Village is closing in on its fundraising goal to make it the first museum in Nova Scotia, and maybe the first in all of Canada, to get all of its electricity from onsite solar panels.

May 01, 2019

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Letter on Rural Docs from Labor Minister

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.

May 01, 2019

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Lyme Disease Continues to Spread

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.

May 01, 2019

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Feds Moving to End Rural Hospital Injustice!

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.

April 28, 2019

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DFO Bans Industrial Activities in MPAs

By Richard Bell Six months after the release of the Final Report of the National Advisory Panel on Marine Protected Area Standards, DFO Minister Jonathan Wilkinson announced today, April 25, that the government would adopt the Panel’s recommendation to prohibit four industrial activities in all new federal MPAs: oil and gas activities; mining; dumping; and bottom trawling.

April 25, 2019

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Parties Working to End Discrimination Against HRM Rural Hospitals

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.

April 16, 2019

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PC Caucus Joins Fight for Rural Doctors in HRM

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.

April 12, 2019

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