We are under a Rainfall Warning and Freezing Rain Warning. Rain at times heavy giving another 20 to 30mm today. There is a risk of freezing rain late this afternoon. Rain changing to freezing rain mixed with ice pellets this evening then to snow before morning. Risk of freezing rain early this evening.
Nova Scotia’s government is expanding an incentive program to encourage more doctors to choose to practice in the province.
It says financial incentives for doctors are now available in all areas of the province, including Halifax Regional Municipality in the central health zone.
The government says family physicians and specialists who want to establish full-time practices in the central health zone can earn up to 75-thousand-dollars in incentives over five-years.
Qualifying physicians who want to establish a practice outside that area remain eligible for up to 125-thousand-dollars in incentives over five years.
Nova Scotia’s Tory government is proposing a new bill that would create a new office to protect the rights of young people, although there are few details at this point. The child and youth office was promised by the government in a ministerial mandate letter following the 2021 election. Community Services Minister Brendan Maguire says the legislation creates the framework for the new office and that consultations are still necessary on how it will function. Maguire says his department won’t be involved in choosing the office’s commissioner and he adds it’s hoped the office will be up and running this year.
Liberal Leader Zach Churchill says that the Progressive Conservative government isn’t being realistic in claiming wine growers can “ramp up” to become bottling factories.
The Opposition leader criticized Premier Tim Houston yesterday in the legislature for his suggestion there aren’t major reasons the vineyards couldn’t start setting up the factories.
The wine industry has been up in arms over the government decision to start providing subsidies to wine bottled in Nova Scotia — even if it’s being made with low cost imported products — saying this is going to decimate the local industry.
Houston is defending the shift as a way to build a bottling industry in the province and has denied accusations he’s doing it to assist a party supporter who runs one of the two bottling factories.
A Liberal member of the legislature is pushing for the Nova Scotia government to provide supplementary breast cancer screening for women with dense breasts.
Rafah DiCostanzo has introduced the Find It Early Act, which would have the government pay for more detailed cancer screenings of women with dense breasts.
DiCostanzo was diagnosed with breast cancer after finding a lump in the spring of 2023 that was not detected on an earlier mammogram.
The 61-year-old says supplementary screening using more advanced technologies can save lives and help people avoid traumatic surgeries and difficult chemotherapy treatment.
A sports note, the Pictou County Weeks Crushers host the Summerside Western Capitals tonight in the Maritime Junior Hockey League.
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