Nova Scotia Tories promise universal shingles vaccine program for 65 and over

Nova Scotia’s Progressive Conservatives accidental that if re-elected Nov. 26 they volition present a cosmopolitan shingles vaccine programme for radical 65 and older.

Party person Tim Houston says the programme volition outgo $27 cardinal successful the archetypal twelvemonth earlier dropping beneath $3 cardinal a twelvemonth by the 3rd twelvemonth arsenic the absorption shifts to radical reaching the property of 65.

Houston says it makes consciousness to marque the shingles vaccine escaped due to the fact that statistic amusement 1 successful 3 radical volition make the achy tegument rash, and the hazard increases arsenic radical age.

For the NDP today, lodging remained the absorption arsenic person Claudia Chender promised to make a compliance and enforcement portion for resolving tenant-landlord rental disputes.

Chender says the portion is needed due to the fact that the state doesn’t person the indispensable resources to negociate disputes.

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After the merchandise of a $300,000 study successful September, the Progressive Conservative authorities decided against an enforcement unit, saying it would effect successful much reddish portion and longer solution times for some landlords and tenants.

Liberal Leader Zach Churchill, meanwhile, promised to physique a caller six-lane span crossed Halifax harbour to assistance relieve postulation congestion successful Atlantic Canada’s largest city.

Churchill said his program would regenerate the MacKay Bridge with a larger span that would person dedicated motorcycle and autobus lanes.

He was besides captious of a Tory committedness to region the tolls connected the 2 harbour bridges, saying the determination would lone promote much radical to thrust and further clog the roads.

This study by The Canadian Press was archetypal published Nov. 5, 2024.