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Nova Scotia Aquaculture Minister Keith Colwell says most Nova Scotians Are Not Worth $15/hr
Gary Burrill, leader of the NDP in Nova Scotia has been trying to get the minimum wage increased in Nova Scotia.
In a 2016 report by the
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), ot says “people in Halifax should earn $19.17 per
hour in order to provide for their family and live a somewhat
comfortable life. For people who live in the Town and Municipality of Antigonish that hourly wage is $17.30.”
You can read this twitter status here.
Pretty hard to live with a government who doesn’t support the people who voted them into office.
Jeremy White says RCMP racially profiled on his way to work | CBC News
Jeremy White is sharing his story about being stopped by an
RCMP officer just around the corner from the youth centre where he
works.
RCMP officer just around the corner from the youth centre where he
works.
Just before 1 p.m. on Feb. 27, White, 19, was driving his
grandmother’s grey Hyundai Elantra from a lunch program at Sycamore Lane
Elementary School in Lower Sackville, N.S.
His destination was a Boys and Girls Club in Lower Sackville, where he works as a program leader.
N.S. justice minister orders police to stop using quotas for street checks | CBC News
Mark
Furey said the findings of the report, which was commissioned by the
Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission, are alarming and unacceptable.
Province says it needs more details to make decision on Northern Pulp effluent plan | CBC News
“I did not make this decision lightly,” Environment Minister Margaret Miller told a news conference Friday.
“It was very clear that, in the end, there only was one decision to make.”
The province will give the company terms of reference for a focus report by April 24, and the company will have up to a year to respond.