A fire Tuesday morning forced 47 people to leave a special-care home in Tatamagouche.
No one was injured.
The Canadian Red Cross says the fire triggered the sprinkler system in the Willow Lodge.
About 37 people sought shelter at the nearby fire hall after the fire broke out at about 2:20 a-m.
The Nova Scotia government’s recent budget is being criticized by some for being too hard on the province’s poorest citizens.
That’s because the budget for the 2023-2024 fiscal year kept welfare rates at 2021 levels as the government focuses on fixing health care.
Pink Larkin human rights lawyer Vince Calderhead says the decision against increasing the income assistance rates during high inflation is one of the harshest moves he’s seen in 11 years of tracking the issue.
Calderhead notes that since welfare rates last went up in May 2021 under the previous Liberal government, Nova Scotia’s overall inflation rate has gone up by about 11 per cent, which means an increase in food insecurity.
Nova Scotia’s New Democrats are slamming the province’s Progressive Conservative government for denying ‘thank-you’ bonuses to nurses and health-care workers off on medical leave.
N-D-P Leader Claudia Chender issued a statement Tuesday saying dozens of nurses on medical leave have come forward to confirm they did not receive the full 10-thousand-dollar bonus.
Chender says the province’s nurses have put their own health and well-being on the line to take care of others during the worst times of the pandemic and beyond.
As well, the N-D-P revealed that health-care workers off on maternity or parental leave were also denied the bonus.
Four Nova Scotia communities will soon undergo upgrades to their drinking water and wastewater infrastructure systems.
Combined federal, provincial and municipal funding totalling 11.8-million-dollars will be devoted to the project.
The upgrades will happen in Yarmouth, the Municipality of the District of Clare, Mahone Bay and Digby.
The investments are aimed at preparing the four areas for future growth.
