A crucial Montreal Canadiens game with playoff implications has pushed today’s French-language leaders debate to 6 P-M eastern time — two hours earlier than originally planned.
The three major leaders campaigned Tuesday across Montreal.
N-D-P Leader Jagmeet Singh promised to bring back the proposed increase to the capital gains tax that the Liberals scrapped before the election.
The Liberals’ Mark Carney pitched a new training benefit of up to 15-thousand dollars for workers in key sectors.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre continued with crime policy proposals, seeking mandatory jail sentences for fraud convictions.
Statistics Canada reports that the national inflation rate slowed to 2.3 per cent in March.
The slowing is being attributed in part to falling gas prices and a slowdown in travel to the United States which helped cool airfare costs.
The agency says fewer Canadians travelled to the United States last month, when many families typically get away for March break.
Last month marked the beginning of the U-S tariff war with Canada, which prompted some consumer backlash toward American travel and products in recent weeks.
Nova Scotia‘s inflation rate was 2.3% in March as it was the only province with accelerating price growth, due to higher prices for shelter
Nova Scotia’s auditor general says the province has made substantial progress toward completing recommendations from reports between 2020 to 2022. Kim Adair says the government has implemented 82 of the 103 performance audit recommendations over that period – including all the action items from the 2021 audit. Adair says the 2021 audit was the first to have all its recommendations completed by the time her office produced a follow-up report. However, she says a low point is the government’s failure to complete corrective actions included in a 2019 audit of how it manages bridge projects in the central and western parts of the province.
The release of an updated version of Nova Scotia’s student code of conduct has been delayed once again.
The unions representing teachers and school support staff say they’re becoming increasingly frustrated by the delays. In January, the education minister said there would be an overhaul of the school code of conduct that would be put into action by March. But as of mid-April, there’s still no clear timeline on when it will be released.
You may have noticed that New Glasgow Town Hall is glowing purple this week. It’s in honour of National Medical Laboratory Week, recognizing the vital work of medical laboratory professionals who play a critical role in the healthcare system.
