A sod-turning ceremony was held Monday for the construction of the New Glasgow Long-Term Care Home. The new 144-resident room home will be located at 640 Little Harbour Road and will replace the aging Glen Haven Manor with a modern, resident-centered home.
Construction of the New Glasgow Long-Term Care Home is expected to begin early this winter, with completion anticipated in late 2028. The new Long-Term care home will be owned by the Town of New Glasgow, following a transition in ownership from the current structure of four municipal owners in the municipal home corporation of Glen Haven Manor Corporation.
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s minority Liberals survived a budget vote Monday, avoiding a winter election by just two votes.
Two Conservatives and two New Democrats were absent, allowing the confidence motion to pass 170 to 168.
Carney also secured a last-minute boost from Green Leader Elizabeth May after pledging to meet Canada’s Paris climate targets.
Opposition parties slammed the budget, but M-Ps acknowledged Canadians aren’t eager for another election six months after the last one.
Canada’s premiers say their meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney on Monday was “productive,” with talks centred on the federal budget and stalled tariff negotiations with the United States. Premier Tim Houston and the other Premiers met with Carney virtually, and Carney signalled a major support package is on the way for sectors hit by U-S tariffs, including softwood lumber. Carney also committed to regular check-ins with premiers, including an in-person meeting early in the new year.
Colton LeBlanc, the Minister of Growth and Development, was Nova Scotia’s representative in St.John’s Monday for the annual conference of Eastern Canada premiers and New England governors. Representatives from Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Quebec and PEI all took part in the meeting. They discussed tariffs, softwood lumber and the economy. Three resolutions were adopted at the conference — two about continuing collaboration on energy, ecological connectivity and food security and a third focused on starting to work together on technology and innovation.
Statistics Canada reports that lower prices at the gas pumps and grocery stores helped bring down inflation in October.
The annual rate of inflation cooled to 2.2 per cent last month — a tick higher than economists’ expectations but down from 2.4 per cent in September.
Gas prices fell 4.8 per cent on a monthly basis in October as retailers switched to cheaper winter blends of fuel and global crude oil prices dropped on concerns of oversupply. Prices at the grocery store also fell 0.6 per cent in October, the largest month-to-month decline since September 2020. Nova Scotia’s inflation rate in October was 2.6 percent, down slightly from 2.7 percent in September.
