Workers at Shiretown and Ivey’s Terrace Nursing Homes in Trenton, who are represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees, hitting the picket line after earlier this week issuing their official 48-hour notice to strike.  They’ll be joining thousands of striking long term care workers at more than 2-dozen homes across the province.

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The Nova Scotia government says the number of residents without a family doctor continues to decline.

As of April 1st, there were almost 62-thousand Nova Scotians — almost six per cent of the province’s population — on the wait list.

That’s a reduction of about 12-hundred since the previous month.

One year ago, the proportion of the population without a primary caregiver was 8.8 per cent.

 

 

The leader of the Opposition N-D-P in Nova Scotia says the provincial government should have a women’s health strategy.

Claudia Chender says Premier Tim Houston’s Progressive Conservative government has refused to draft such a plan.

The head of obstetrics and gynecology at the I-W-K Health Centre in Halifax recently told a provincial health committee that people are waiting longer than they should for care.

Chender says women want to know if there’s a plan coming because many are ending up with worse health outcomes as they wait to receive care.

 

 

Pictou County District RCMP continue to ask for the public’s help in locating 61-year-old Steven Boudreau. He was last seen on Saturday at approximately 5:00 p.m. on Elgin Rd. in Hopewell.

Steven is approximately 6-feet-2 inches tall, 190 pounds, with grey hair and blue eyes.

Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Steven Boudreau is asked to contact Pictou County District RCMP or Nova Scotia Crime Stoppers.