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For two years, businesses and the wider community in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick sacrificed their financial and spiritual wellbeing for the public good. It’s now the right time to reap those rewards.
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HRM Rejects Engineering Company’s Offers To Build Food Shelter At Meagher Park
Neil Wolthers has decided to appeal to Halifax’s director of parks and recreation directly for s special permit to construct an 8×12 structure for food storage. He says he can design it so it can be moved after the people living at the park secure housing, and the unit is no longer needed.
Dozens Of Atlantic Canadian Correctional Officers Reprimanded Over Covered Badge Protest
Letters of reprimand were handed out March 9 to 26 Atlantic Canadian correctional officers after they taped over their badges. Officers with taped badges were sent home from work sometime last week without pay.
GoFundMe Raises $2,000 For Couple Swindled Out Of Their New Home
The money will be used for the Kimms to pay legal fees related to an appeal launched by Almadina, the housing company that terminated the contract last year. Almadina was originally ordered to pay the Kimms $25,000
Halifax Tech Company Can Use Your Smartphone To Track Covid Outbreaks
B-line, has released a platform that is able to retrace people’s steps in a work environment, using Bluetooth sensors. Tracking people’s movements through such an app would be accurate, since most people carry their smartphones with them everywhere they go.
Nova Scotia-Filmed And Produced Feature Debuts At Cineplex
The movie, filmed in 2020 on a modest $1.5 million budget, is written and directed by Shelley Thompson, most famous for her role as Barb in Trailer Park Boys. She has been an auteur filmmaker in several short films, but Dawn marks her debut as a feature-length film director.
Some Halifax Restaurants Say ‘Good Riddance’ To Vaccine Passports
Luc Erjavec, the Atlantic representative for Restaurants Canada, summed up the industry’s response to the removal of vaccine passports: “To a tee, it’s been ‘good riddance,’”
Eastlink Spending $20-Million On Halifax Facility
This data centre is being touted as the most “energy efficient” facility Eastlink has ever built.
Eastlink Drops Long-Distance Fees To Ukraine
The fee waiver comes at a time when governments, businesses and organizations worldwide are punishing Russia economically for its invasion, while also looking for ways to support Ukraine.
NSLC Removing Russian Vodka From Shelves
The move comes as leaders around the world levy economic sanctions against Russia for their unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
