In front of a Westin Hotel ballroom full of Atlantic Canadian business leaders and politicians, a panel discussion on minimum wage quickly became about how—not if—Nova Scotia could hike its wages to $15 an hour. The event, held last Friday, was facilitated by the Atlantic Provinces Economic Council to help flesh out the local complexities […]
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A second opinion on tax reforms
Breaking from the dominant position of their colleagues, this week over 300 doctors across the country sent a letter to finance minister Bill Morneau voicing support for proposed tax changes that will eliminate several money-saving mechanisms used by many Canadian physicians. Monika Dutt, a family physician in Cape Breton, is one of the signatories. Dutt […]
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Public transit should be free
[Image-1] Just like public health care and public schools, I believe that free transit is a public good because we would live in a better world if everyone was healthy, educated and able to get around. We collectively fund public health care because we see it as an important public good, but we fail to […]
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Salary freeze rejected during snarky council debate
[Image-1] A new compensation system for HRM councillors and the mayor was viciously shot down at City Hall this week, but problems with the current salary formula remain. A report asking to change HRM council’s pay and base it off of the average salary for a full-time HRM resident was debated at a stumbling, confrontational […]