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Saying that lowest paid workers left behind as premier McNeil provides his inner circle with generous salaries and appointments, NDP Leader Gary Burrill has raised concerns about high level staff appointments given that Stephen McNeil is unwilling to discuss increasing the province’s minimum wage to $15 per hour.

The frequent refusals over the past two months of Bay Ferries and the Nova Scotia government to agree to release passenger figures for the CAT Ferry have been couched in claims of confidential business information. That the counts for paid passengers leaving from and arriving at Portland in the ferry will be readily available to the media and public through the City of Portland has PC Party leader Jamie Baillie fuming.

Roseway not on the list

• No comprehensive plan from govt for health care services
• Communities with doctor recruitment issues can expect emergency department closures.

Voters in Nova Scotia may be going to the polls sooner than expected, possibly as early as this fall, according to a news analysis story by CBC political reporter Jean Laroche

Legal community rejects government funding cut decision

“Today was the time for action and answers, but we saw neither,” says Baillie.

Shelburne project "getting a second look"?

Shell Oil, the international conglomerate which Nova Scotia premier Stephen McNeil has touted as having a "strong safety and environmental and health and safety record" has admitted to an oil spill from its drilling operation in the Gulf of Mexico, amounting to 350,000 or more litres of oil. 

The McNeil government released its 2016-2017 budget Tuesday afternoon, decribing it as "balanced" and "making investments in economic growth, education, and youth."

The budget projects a $127.4 million surplus, including a one-time revenue increase of $110.3 million because of federal and municipal contributions for the convention centre in Halifax.

The government says the $110.3 million will go towards the debt to provide the fiscal capacity to launch a multi-year development of the QEII Health Sciences Centre. The budget's net position is $17.1 million.

"The Liberals sold out the taxpayers of Nova Scotia," says Baillie

 In a news release Thursday, Progressive Conservative leader Jamie Baillie is calling on the Premier to release the secret guaranteed profit taxpayers will pay to Bay Ferries.

McNeil government has tendency to act first and consult later
My reaction to the recent announcement by the Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture, Keith Colwell, that lobster buyers and their designates will be required to take a mandatory lobster handling course if they wish to have their licences renewed is that this is an insult to the entire lobster industry.