Thread - Nova Scotians ages 63 and 64 will be the first group eligible to access the AstraZeneca COVID vaccine starting Saturday, March 20. #NovaScotia
The vaccine will be available at 25 locations across the province on a first come, first served basis.
Guardian - Hutchins Pharmacy, 310 St. George St., Annapolis Royal
Walmart Pharmacy, 1065 Central Ave., Greenwood
Stones Drug Store, 491 Chebucto St., Baddeck
Freeman’s Pharmacy, 15786 Central Ave., Inverness/3
Medicine Shoppe Pharmacy, 288 Welton St., Sydney
Amherst Pharmasave, 158 Robert Angus Dr., Amherst
Pictou Pharmasave, 33 Water St., Pictou
Guardian - Elmsdale Pharmacy, 269 Hwy. 214, Elmsdale
Drug Store Pharmacy (located in Atlantic Superstore), 394 Westville Rd., New Glasgow/4
The following family physician clinics will offer the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine:
Geriatrics in Motion, 65 Prestwick Cl., Halifax
Woodlawn Medical Centre, 92 Main St., Dartmouth
Dalhousie Family Medicine (Spryfield location), 16 Denith Rd., Halifax/5
Dalhousie Family Medicine (Mumford location), 265-6960 Mumford Rd., Halifax
Berwick Family Practice, 121 Orchard St., Berwick
Queens General Hospital, 175 School St., Liverpool
Harvest Tides Family Practice, 70 Exhibition St., New Minas
Middleton Collaborative Practice, 452 Main St., Middleton
Colchester Research Group/ Truro Walk-In Clinic, 68 Robie St., Truro
Mediplex: Medical Complex and Clinics, 40 Church St., Antigonish
Island Family Health Care, 308-45 Weatherbee Rd., Sydney/6
Northside Family Collaborative, 116 King St., North Sydney/7
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TORONTO — There are now five former Ford government staffers working as lobbyists or publicists with for-profit long-term care providers amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Brayden Akers registered to lobby his former employer, the Ontario government, on behalf of /1
Sienna Senior Living Inc. on June 1. The company has hired Navigator, where Akers works as a consultant, to represent them. Navigator describes itself as “Canada’s leading high stakes public strategy and communications firm.”/2
Akers previously worked as director of communications to Greg Rickford, Ontario’s minister of northern development, energy, mines and Indigenous affairs, according to a biography posted on Navigator’s website./3
Renewable energy projects, protected areas and recycling: #NovaScotia
Wind Energy
To ensure a more diverse energy mix, Nova Scotia Power and the municipal electric utilities must have 25% renewables in their mix by 2015 and 40% by 2020.
We are well on the path to /1
meeting those requirements, and wind will play a major role as projects already approved will reach the technical limit of 500 megawatts around 2015.
Federal regulations establish a requirement for coal-fired units to meet specific emissions standards or /2
shut down at the end of their useful life.
Tidal Energy
To develop the Bay of Fundy’s resource, the Province of Nova Scotia has taken a number of strategic actions: • Supporting the Fundy Ocean Research Center for Energy (FORCE) /3
Releasing the start of this thread.
This thread is about Alberta - UCP cuts and disastrous policies by Jason Kenney:
December 05, 2020 • Worker Rights and Safety
Proposed end to WCB fair practices office 'shortsighted'
Bill 47, Ensuring Safety and Cutting Red Tape Act, /1
UCP cuts and disastrous polices by Jason Kenney - Alberta
will dissolve the Fair Practices and Medical Panels offices, which employs 54 people and helps people navigate the WCB system, by April 1, 2021. /2
UCP cuts and disastrous policies by Jason Kenney - Alberta
Workers’ Compensation
UCP tabled Bill 47, an omnibus bill that will make workplaces less safe and leave workers less protected. Some of the many changes include limiting workers' right to refuse unsafe work./3
Thread on Doug Ford screw ups that cost Ontario taxpayer $$.
Cancelled well over $330 million in Environmental projects
Lost over $330 million to money laundering in Casinos
Lost over $42 million in Cannabis sales due to delayed store openings. /1
/2 Thread on Doug Ford screw ups:
Cut OHIP+ so families with sick children will have to seek private coverage first and pay deductibles and co-payments.
Cut planned mental health funding by more than $330 million.
Cut funding for the dementia strategy.
/3 Thread on Doug Ford screw ups:
2019 Budget – cut provincial funding for public health by almost 1/3 (27%) and cut public health units from 35 to 10.
Municipalities revealed Ford government plan to cut and restructure ambulance services, down from 59 to 10.
"It reflects Nova Scotians' commitment to following public health measures and doing their part to help slow the spread of COVID-19," Premier McNeil said.
Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador each report four new cases of COVID-19 a.msn.com/01/en-ca/BB1bG…
In Newfoundland and Labrador, health officials reported four new cases of COVID-19, three of them men who recently returned to the province from Alberta. The fourth case involves a man from the central region who was a close contact of a previous case.
Meanwhile, the premiers of all four Atlantic provinces are cautioning against non-essential travel into neighbouring provinces.