Warden Robert Parker has announced that he will seek re-election for District 6 Councillor in the upcoming municipal election for the Municipality of Pictou County. Parker has been a Municipal Councillor for 16 years, and has served as Warden for the Municipality for the past 8 years. Before being a Municipal Councillor, he served 13 years with the School Board.
Nova Scotia’s Opposition Liberals say the province will be the first in Canada to offer free public transit if they form the next government.
Leader Zach Churchill says 65.6-million-dollars in proposed funding would eliminate existing transit fares, while helping to expand transit systems.
Churchill says the move would have a big impact on people’s finances and would also help reduce carbon emissions and reduce traffic congestion.
The Liberal pledge follows another major promise made in February to cut the provincial portion of the harmonized sales tax by two percentage points to 13 per cent, making it the lowest in Atlantic Canada.
The Province says funding is now available through a grant program to help more seniors with the cost of household and health care services. Eligibility for the Seniors Care Grant program expands this year to include people with a household income up to 45-thousand-100-dollars. The province says more than 35-thousand seniors who applied last year but were over the threshold are able to get the grant this year. The program provides a grant of 750-dollars to help cover the costs of household and health care services.
The Bank of Canada will announce its latest interest-rate decision today. Economists are widely expecting the central bank to lower its key policy rate by another quarter of a percentage point, which would bring it to 4.25 per cent. That’s despite economic growth coming in stronger than expected in the second quarter. Statistics Canada’s latest read on gross domestic product showed the economy grew at an annualized rate of 2.1 per cent in the second quarter — beating the Bank of Canada’s forecast.
