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Provincial policing plan raises more questions than answers for CBRM officials
Cape Breton Regional Municipality's mayor and the chair of its police commission are gathering a list of questions to take to Nova Scotia Justice Minister Becky Druhan in a meeting that's expected later this summer.
N.S. alcohol enforcer calls for 50-day liquor licence suspension in Route 19 Brewing death
However, Route 19 Brewing in Inverness, Cape Breton, says its liquor licence should only be suspended for three days.
Cape Breton unionized construction workers on strike to restore pandemic concessions
The Cape Breton Island Building and Construction Trades Council, representing 10 unions, says a promise to restore wages is not being honoured and workers are being asked to accept even lower pay.
St. Peter's water utility says minister's intervention in rate hike application 'alarming'
The chair of the St. Peter's, Samsonville and Area Water Utility says he was surprised and alarmed after Nova Scotia Municipal Affairs Minister John Lohr wrote a letter to the province's regulator saying the utility's proposed rate hike is too high.
CBU, province to build campus daycare facility that will triple available spaces
The number of daycare spaces at Cape Breton University is set to nearly triple and the university does not expect to have any trouble filling them.
Free bus passes coming to CBRM for people on income, disability support
Some 7,000 people living in Cape Breton Regional Municipality will be eligible for the program, which is similar to a 2018 pilot project in Halifax that was made permanent in 2021.
CBRM refusing to release staff survey results, but police union says low morale is no secret
Cape Breton Regional Municipality says it is keeping a wellness survey of first responders confidential to maintain trust and avoid having results misinterpreted.
Quebec-based airline ending flights between Halifax and Sydney airports
Pascan Aviation says passenger volumes were too low for the company to sustain service between Halifax and Sydney.
Money at heart of strained relations between Baddeck and Victoria County: village chair
Baddeck village commission chair Jennifer MacDonald says budget pressures are causing both levels of government to re-examine cost-sharing agreements over municipal services.
CBU researchers say housing crisis in 2 communities worse than federal stats suggest
Cape Breton University political scientists Jan Hancock and Andrew Molloy say the number of people in unaffordable housing in Glace Bay and New Waterford is double what the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation reports.