Category: Halifax

Money to protect oceans

The Trudeau Government will be putting $1.5 billion into a marine protection plan over the next five years.

Environment Minister Catherine McKenna was at the Coast Guard offices in Dartmouth to make the announcement. She said the Coast Guard and Bedford Institute of Oceanography will be getting more funding. There’ll be a new radar station at Chedabucto.

McKenna also said the government will be drawing on the traditional knowledge and expertise of Indigenous communities to protect coasts and waterways more effectively.

Accessibility bill halted at legisature

The McNeil Government has halted a bill to make the province more accessible to disabled people, according to the CBC.

Community Services Minister Joanne Bernard called it historic when she introduced it last week. However, the disabled and other experts told a legislature committee yesterday the bill is flawed, inadequate and weak…and needed to go back to the drawing board.

After listening to the complaints, Liberal caucus chair Iain Rankin proposed a motion to stand the bill which freezes it in the law-making process.