The province has implemented 14 of 17 recommendations in a review of how police and prosecutors handled the Rehtaeh Parsons case. The final three are in the process of being enacted, and the first 14 include Halifax Regional Police implementing a sexual assault trauma policy.
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Provincial funding for health plan for African Nova Scotians
African Nova Scotians across the province will soon get personalized health coaching. The McNeil government is giving more than $96,000 over the next two years to A Matter of Black Health. The project offers coaching and personal plans to African Nova Scotians with, or at risk of getting, diabetes. It’ll be offered in Halifax, Hants County, Cape Breton, Antigonish, Guysborough, the South Shore, the Annapolis Valley, Digby and Yarmouth.