(NB-Nursing-Homes)
The New Brunswick Coalition for Seniors and Nursing Home Residents’ Rights says the waitlist of those in need of a nursing home bed has grown by more than 200 people since January.
The group says in January there were 901 people waiting for a nursing home bed, with 421 of those people waiting in hospital.
As of July, that waitlist had grown to more than 11-hundred people, with 535 of them waiting in hospital.
The C-E-O of Horizon Health said last month 35 per cent of hospital beds were being used by patients who need an alternative type of care, many of whom are waiting for a spot in a long term care home.
(CTV News)
—
(NB-Liberals-Announcement)
With a provincial election looming, New Brunswick Liberals say they will present their party’s platform on school lunches.
Liberal Leader Susan Holt is scheduled to make the announcement tomorrow morning.
Holt will be joined by Tanya Whitney, candidate for the riding of Fredericton-York, who has been a school principal.
The New Brunswick election is scheduled to take place on or before October 21st.
(The Canadian Press)
—-
(NL-Cruise-Ships)
While summer may be winding down, the cruise ship season in St. John’s, Newfoundland is only ramping up this month.
Ten ships are set to dock at the harbour in the capital city throughout September, bringing with them thousands of visitors.
The largest ship scheduled for next month is the Jewel of the Seas, which is scheduled to dock on the 19th with 25-hundred passengers in tow.
(VOCM)
—
(NS-Homicide)
R-C-M-P in Nova Scotia say the death of a 66-year-old man in Virginia East this weekend is being treated as a homicide.
Police have released few details about the death and have not shared the name of the deceased.
The R-C-M-P says officers got word of a sudden death Saturday at a home on Virginia Road in Virginia East, a small community in the Annapolis Valley.
Officers found the man at roughly 8:20 a-m and ruled his death a homicide.
(The Canadian Press)
—
(NS-Encampments-Report)
An independent review of actions taken by the municipality of Halifax and city police during evictions of homeless encampments that turned violent in 2021 says both parties made mistakes in their handling of the incident and should issue an apology.
The review conducted by a team of Toronto-based lawyers was commissioned by Halifax in spring 2023, and came with 37 recommendations that will be presented to a Board of Police Commissioners meeting Wednesday.
The recommendations include calls for Halifax and its police force to publicly acknowledge flaws in the decision-making process that led to the encampment eviction and publicly apologize for those errors, and it also urges the city to keep designating public spaces to be used as homeless encampments.
More than a hundred protesters clashed with police on August 18th, 2021 as city officials forcibly cleared a homeless encampment downtown, with several demonstrators pepper sprayed and arrested.
(The Canadian Press)
—
(NS-Student-Housing)
The president of the Dalhousie Student Union says students in Halifax are struggling with the high cost of living and lack of affordable housing.
Mariam Knakriah says in her five years living and studying in the city, the rental market for students has never been worse.
She says she’s heard of students living in crowded apartments with many roommates or commuting by car from well over an hour away to afford rent.
Students have also shared that in order to pay rent they are skipping meals, resulting in a significant uptake in use of the school’s food bank.
(The Canadian Press)
—
