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Finance minister Randy Delorey, in his fiscal update yesterday said the budget surplus is shrinking. It’s estimated now at $12.1 million…down $5 million from April’s budget.
Delorey also said the new numbers mean there’s no money to sweeten salary offers to the teachers and other civil servants.
The reduction is blamed on a $45.5 million dollar drop in tax revenues as well as a decrease in anticipated revenues because of the delay in opening the Nova Convention Centre.
Doctors want the province to make the minimum age for recreational marijuanna use 21.
A federal task force this week recommended a minimum of 18 but also said provinces should be allowed to set higher age limits.
The Chronicle Herald reports Doctors Nova Scotia would like to see 21….so would the Canadian medical Association. They say marijuanna may affect development of the brain and memory into a person’s mid-twenties. So they want to see the age limit at 21 or older if possible.