Premier Tim Houston will join his counterparts from across the country for two days of meetings starting today in Victoria, BC where they’ll be highlighting the need for more health-care funding from Ottawa.
B-C Premier John Horgan is leading the Council of the Federation, which includes all 13 premiers.
The premiers are calling on Ottawa to hike its share of funding to 35 per cent, from 22 per cent.
Horgan says he met with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in B-C last November and was told a team would be put together to address health-care funding, but that hasn’t happened.
Nova Scotia Liberals have a new leader.
Zach Churchill from Yarmouth was chosen as the new leader at a party convention Saturday evening.
He replaces former premier Iain Rankin who stepped down in January after the party was defeated in last August’s provincial election.
Churchill won with 65 per cent of the vote among party delegates.
Officials with the public inquiry into the 2020 Nova Scotia mass shooting are warning that this week may be difficult for some because the inquiry will focus on domestic and family-based violence.
The Mass Casualty Commission will release documents including details about the sexual and physical violence committed by the gunman who killed 22 people in April 2020.
Among the documents are five multi-hour interview transcripts conducted by the inquiry with the shooter’s spouse, Lisa Banfield, who will be called as a witness Friday.
The gunman’s rampage began after he attacked Banfield, and inquiry interviews have found that he had assaulted both Banfield and his first wife.
A new health centre in downtown Halifax is the first of its kind in Nova Scotia to offer specialized medical support to the city’s growing urban Indigenous population.
The Wije’winen Health Centre will offer specialized primary care to Indigenous people living in Halifax.
Clinical lead for the centre, Dr. Brent Young, says the new clinic marks a pivotal moment for health-care access for Halifax urban Indigenous people.
The first appointments at the clinic located in the Mi’kmaw Native Friendship Centre will take place this week.
The federal government has apologized for the treatment that members of the No. 2 Construction Battalion — Canada’s only all-Black unit to serve in the First World War — endured before, during and after their service to the country.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau offered the apology Saturday as descendants of the battalion’s 600 members gathered in Truro.
Trudeau says he was there to apologize for the appalling way the patriots were treated and said the government is sorry.
Hundreds of Black men in Canada were initially turned away when they volunteered to fight overseas in 1914 but later supported three major forestry operations while overseas, working lumber mills and maintaining roads and railway equipment.
