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Federal N-D-P Leader Jagmeet Singh made a campaign stop in Newfoundland and Labrador Saturday where he promised to ensure that all Canadians have access to a family doctor by 2030.
The party also wants to make it easier for American doctors to come to Canada, and plans to fund more residencies for internationally trained doctors living in Canada.
Singh says an N-D-P government would offer an additional one per cent in Canada Health Transfer funding to provinces that guarantee access to a family doctor.
Singh was in the St. John’s East riding, where Mary Shortall is hoping to win the riding back for the N-D-P after she lost to Liberal Joanne Thompson in 2021.
(The Canadian Press)
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(NS-Lohnes-Killing)
The R-C-M-P in southwestern Nova Scotia have released a video showing relatives of a man who was killed outside his home in 2020, hoping the recording will prompt someone to come forward with information about the unsolved homicide.
Investigators say 57-year-old Donny Lohnes was the target of an attack on Jippie Avenue in Pine Grove on October 25th, 2020.
R-C-M-P Corporal Chris Marshall says police are hoping someone with information about the crime will come forward after seeing the video, which shows Lohnes’ mother and brother.
Marshall says police have interviewed more than 125 people, four crime scenes have been examined, and the case has been added to the Nova Scotia Reward for Major Unsolved Crimes Program, which offers up to 150-thousand dollars for information leading to a conviction.
(The Canadian Press)
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(NL-Care-Inquiry)
An inquiry into the treatment and experiences of Innu children in the care of Newfoundland and Labrador government services has resumed today in Sheshatshiu.
Attendees this morning heard from social worker Lyla Andrew, who says social services are not set up to care for Indigenous people.
Andrew says many policies do not reflect the lives of Innu people and instead put them at a disadvantage.
Hearings are expected to continue all week.
(The Canadian Press)
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(NS-Affordable-Development)
The government of Nova Scotia says it has purchased land at Shannon Park in Dartmouth to redevelop the space that has largely been vacant since 2017.
The province confirmed to C-B-C that it has purchased the land that was formerly a military housing site in Dartmouth for 16.8 million dollars.
It says it will develop the land and create 600 affordable housing units.
The grassy area is the size of 63 football fields and is on the waterfront in Dartmouth near the MacKay Bridge.
(CBC News)
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(NL-Care-Homes)
A disturbing report on personal care homes is prompting Newfoundland and Labrador’s seniors’ advocate to call once again for independent oversight of care facilities.
Susan Walsh says she is glad acting health minister John Haggie has called on the health authority to develop an action plan within the next month.
But she says her office has long been calling for action, including independent oversight of senior care homes in the province.
The province’s auditor general released a report last week citing a lack of oversight and allegations of abuse by staff and feces-strewn walls at some private personal care homes.
(The Canadian Press)
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(NS-Church-Theft)
Police in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia say a 38-year-old Halifax man faces charges following a theft from a church in the town.
Police allege the theft occurred Saturday during a private event at the church on Abercrombie Road.
The man faces break and entering and theft charges along with three other counts.
(The Canadian Press)
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(PEI-Jacket-Design)
A fourth-year business student from Prince Edward Island who is hoping to produce better life-jackets has won a prestigious Frank H. Sobey scholarship.
Ben Collings-Mackay is a fourth-generation lobster fisherman, and he knows firsthand how cumbersome life-jackets can be for harvesters at work.
He also knows how essential they are — his great-grandfather was involved in a commercial fishing accident in 1958.
Collings-Mackay told C-B-C News that his life-jacket would inflate automatically when someone hits the water, and he’ll use the 45-thousand dollar scholarship to develop a prototype and file patents.
(CBC News)
