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Written by HalifaxLive
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Friday, 15 June 2007 |
Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty in a Liberal fund raising speech this week in Ottawa said in reference to the Atlantic Accord, "The point I'm making to Prime Minister Harper is don't enter into any kind of new arrangement that somehow gives people living in equalization-receiving provinces a greater fiscal capacity than ours. That is not fair".
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Written by Staff
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Friday, 15 June 2007 |
The Ontario Superior Court has overruled a previous decision that forced grocers in that province to remove from their shelves all multi-ingredient ephedrine and pseudoephedrine products (common over-the-counter cough & cold products).
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Written by Staff
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Friday, 15 June 2007 |
 From the engine to the caboose and Stop signs in between, if your child is playing with several of the hugely popular Thomas the Tank Engine wooden railway sets, take the toys away from them immediately.
RC2 Corp. the U.S.-based distributer of Thomas the Tank toys in the United States and Canada issued a voluntary recall for twenty-two wooden train sets and characters after it was determined that the paint on these toys contain "excess levels of lead". Exposure to lead especially in children can cause vomiting, diarrhea, convulsions, coma and even death in extreme exposure cases. The symptoms of lead poisoning include loss of appetite, abdominal pain, fatigue, irritability, headaches, insomnia and constipation.
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Written by Staff
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Thursday, 14 June 2007 |
The Harper Conservative government today announced the unanimous and swift passing into law of Bill C-59, an Act to Amend the Criminal Code as it applies to the unauthorized recording of a movie with personal camcorders.
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Written by NDP
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Thursday, 14 June 2007 |
NDP Health Critic David Wilson has written the Minister of Health, Chris d’Entremont, to ask him to investigate the case of a young Nova Scotia mother who was sent by M.S.I. to the United States for a consult on possible cancer surgery, but has now been denied access to the surgery recommended by both her doctors here and the specialists she saw in Philadelphia.
“It’s no secret that sometimes to get the best advice and treatment for rare conditions you have to travel to see the best,” says Wilson. “We thought the government understood that when they sent Angela Feindel for a consultation to the U.S.”
“So why stop now and not help this Nova Scotian complete her recovery?’
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Written by Staff
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Wednesday, 13 June 2007 |
In response to the continuing backlog of new passport applications in Canada, Passport Canada has relaxed their previously stringent rules regarding their guarantor policy.
As of October 1, 2007 Canada will no longer require applicants to provide a guarantor who is a member of the professional sector. As it stands now, Canadian passport applicants are required to supply a guarantor signature from a professional sector that includes doctors, lawyers or politicians. Guarantors are persons who will vouch for the applicant if necessary.
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Written by D.L. McCracken
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Tuesday, 12 June 2007 |
Greetings from Atlantic Canada,
It has come to my attention that many people beyond the New Brunswick/Quebec border have an extremely limited understanding of what it means to have the leader of this country and his cronies decide to unilaterally tear up a signed, sealed and delivered contract and replace it with something else...anything else, as long as it doesn't have the heading, "Atlantic Accord".
Imagine my dismay to read some of the comments offered by so many of the uninformed in upper Canada to the question, 'Is the Harper government breaking a contract and gleefully putting the screws to Atlantic Canada in regards to the 2007 federal budget and the Atlantic Accord?' or something like that....
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Written by HalifaxLive
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Monday, 11 June 2007 |
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June 12, 2007 - The third reading of the budget bill has just passed with a vote of 157 to 103. In an effort to assist Premier Rodney MacDonald in his request to every Nova Scotia Member of Parliament to vote against a federal budget which cancels the legal contract known and signed into law as The Atlantic Accord, Halifax Live has compiled a list of current NS MPs, their constituencies and their political party affiliation. Each time another MP vows to vote against the federal budget's third reading this week, we will acknowledge their decision here. Bill Casey who now sits as an Independent was the first to vote against his party and his party's budget but more important, he was the first to stand up for Nova Scotia.
Who is next to stand up for Nova Scotia? Two NS MPs did not stand up for Nova Scotia today - Peter MacKay and Gerald Keddy.
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Written by Premier Rodney MacDonald
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Monday, 11 June 2007 |
NOTE: The following is a letter to the editor from Premier Rodney MacDonald.
June 11, 2007
Letter to the Editor:
Federal Finance Jim Minister Flaherty says in Saturday's Herald that it is an "urban myth" that the federal government's 2007 Budget affects the 2005 Atlantic Accord. In fact, that budget claws back every cent of the initial $830-million accord payment, and more, by giving us lower Equalization payments than we're entitled to receive. How does the 2007 Budget do that? Mr. Flaherty says it's "complex" and that's the only part of his letter to the Herald that I agree with. Mr. Flaherty talks about a choice between two formulas. On the surface, having a choice sounds reasonable. In fact, it's not reasonable. Let me give you an analogy that explains why.
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Written by D.L. McCracken
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Monday, 11 June 2007 |
 Just one day after Nova Scotia Premier Rodney MacDonald finally came to his senses and realized that Ottawa is intent on breaking the Atlantic Accord Agreement signed in 2005, Prime Minister Stephen Harper told reporters in a news conference today in Ottawa that if Nova Scotia is serious about the allegations, they should take legal action adding with a dismissive chuckle, "I don't think you can make that allegation and walk away. Is the federal government breaking the law? We are not breaking the law".
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