By DAVENE JEFFREY and JENNIFER STEWART Staff Reporters
Elderly residents of a highrise in Halifax’s south end were without power for about eight hours Thursday, trapping those who usually take the elevator because of mobility issues.
The backup generator did kick in, said a spokeswoman for the Metropolitan Regional Housing Authority, which runs Joseph Howe Manor. [...]
MR. LEONARD PREYRA: Thank you, Madam Chair. I am the MLA for Halifax Citadel, I came in late. I’m filling in for Graham Steele.
I do have a couple of questions, mostly relating to sins of omission on the part of the government and how those are dealt with. I’m thinking in particular about two cases [...]
HALIFAX, MONDAY, APRIL 2, 2007
COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE HOUSE ON SUPPLY
MR. LEONARD PREYRA: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Through you to the minister, I have a series of very short questions that arise largely from cases that arose in my constituency that I also believe raised policy questions. A couple of them relate to my area [...]
by Leonard Preyra
I received yet another letter this month from a constituent whose mother had been warehoused in a hospital transitional care unit for over a year because no nursing home beds were available for her in the Halifax region. When she complained, she was told that her mother could be placed in a facility [...]
Nova Scotia’s Opposition New Democrats say they want to put an end to the heartbreak experienced by families when seniors are placed in long-term care far from their loved ones.
NDP Leader Darrell Dexter unveiled proposals Tuesday to provide better care options for the elderly, including opening extra transitional units until the ruling Tories add more [...]
By DAVID JACKSON Provincial Reporter
The New Democrats say they’ve found a way to ease the backlog of seniors in hospitals waiting for nursing home beds and keep them closer to home once they do get a bed.
Party leader Darrell Dexter said Tuesday he wants to eliminate the Health Department’s rule that states seniors must take [...]
Halifax – Darrell Dexter, Leader of the Opposition, today proposed steps to eliminate the so-called “100 kilometre rule,” a policy that allows the government to place seniors who are in hospital beds waiting for care, into the first available bed within and beyond 100 kilometres from home.
“Those transfers to a distant bed are simply bad [...]