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Would You Trade Privacy For Cheaper Car Insurance? Some Canadians Do – Nova Scotia – CBC News
It is billed as a way for vehicle owners to reduce their insurance rates, and measures everything from braking practices to speed in order to reward good driving habits. Even so, Steve Carver has no interest in attaching a telematic device to his car, calling it “an invasion of privacy.” His long-time insurance company offered him one after he questioned why his rates went up last year, despite a clean driving record and a single claim years ago for a windshield. A telematic device is a small gadget that plugs into the port…
Read MoreFlooding, Flooding Everywhere – Do Canadians Have Insurance For It? – National | Globalnews.ca
From New Brunswick to Quebec, through Ontario, Manitoba and to British Columbia, Canadians have been coping with flooding or bracing for torrential downpours. And yet, flood insurance is still a relatively new concept in the Great White North. Overland flood insurance, which covers damage from water flowing above ground and seeping in through windows, doors and cracks, only became widely available in the last couple of years, according to Blair Feltmate, head of the Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation at the University of Waterloo. Read full story here: Flooding, Flooding Everywhere – Do Canadians Have Insurance For…
Read MoreTories Offer Go-Slow Solution To Rural High-Speed Internet Woes – Nova Scotia – CBC News
When farmer Elspeth McLean-Wile wants to connect to the digital world, she either uses her cellphone or drives almost three kilometres to her business where there’s internet connectivity. McLean-Wile operates a farm market just outside Bridgewater and in the winter months, when the market is closed, she has to drive there to get work done. “People on my road are only two kilometres out of town and we don’t have anybody on our road that has high-speed internet,” she said. The party leaders are hoping to convince rural residents like McLean-Wile that they have the answer to their problem. Read…
Read More‘We’re So Far Behind’: Canada Unprepared For Housing Needs Of Rising Senior Population – Business – CBC News
As the number of seniors continues to grow, experts say Canada is failing to prepare for the housing and home care needs of an aging population. “We’re so far behind where we ought to be, given we know these trends are happening and we’ve known about these trends for the past 20 years,” said Mark Rosenberg, geography and planning professor at Queen’s University and the Canada Research Chair in development studies. Statistics Canada 2016 census figures released on Wednesday revealed that the country recorded its greatest increase in the proportion of seniors. The increase in the number of seniors,…
Read MoreHigh Court To Hear Border-Beer Case ‘Of Polarizing National Interest’ | CTV Atlantic News
OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada will take a look at what the fathers of Confederation really meant by a constitutional clause about free trade among provinces in a case that started over some cases of beer and three bottles of liquor. The court agreed Thursday to hear a Crown appeal of a New Brunswick ruling overturning a ban on bringing alcohol across provincial boundaries. As usual, there were no written reasons provided, though the court took the uncommon step of awarding costs to the defendant for the submissions.…
Read MoreUPDATE: Province Announces More Supports For Doctor Recruitment | The Chronicle Herald
The provincial government announced a total of $8.4 million of new investments for doctor recruitment and collaborative health care in the 2017-18 budget tabled in the legislature Thursday. The budget includes an extra $2.4 million to recruit and retain up to 20 new doctors per year, including 10 residency spaces for family physicians, and the same again for a new practice-ready assessment program geared toward international recruits. That leaves $6 million to build collaborative care teams, which the province will do in concert with communities, health providers and the Nova…
Read MoreNS Has 118 Doctor Vacancies, Needs 100 A Year For Next Decade: Group | CTV Atlantic News
HALIFAX — The shortage of doctors in Nova Scotia is worsening as a growing number of physicians near retirement, recruitment levels lag and health needs become more complex, a medical group warned Wednesday. Nancy MacCready-Williams, CEO of Doctors Nova Scotia, told the legislature’s public accounts committee there are 118 doctor vacancies throughout the province. As well, 1,300 of the 2,400 physicians currently practising are over the age of 50, and 630 are over 60, suggesting the shortage will become more acute as doctors wrap up their careers. Read full story…
Read MorePetition · Marc Garneau: Immediate HALT Of Transport Canada New Safety Rules For Recreational Drone Use In Canada · Change.org
The new Transport Canada legislation for recreational drone use is as follows:No drone can fly higher than 90 m above the ground closer than 75 m from buildings, vehicles, vessels, animals, people/crowds, etc. closer than 9 km from the centre of an aerodrome (any airport, heliport, seaplane base or anywhere that aircraft take-off and land) within controlled or restricted airspace at night and in clouds. The new law is inflexible. For responsible RC enthusiasts, the new law effectively eliminates the use of drones in Canada given that irrespective of where…
Read MoreSome Canadian Bank Record Information Being Sent Directly To IRS – Politics – CBC News
Thousands of reports containing confidential Canadian banking information records have been sent directly to the U.S Internal Revenue Service, without the Canadian government’s knowledge. According to information obtained by CBC News under a U.S. Freedom of Information Act request, 31,574 such reports have been sent directly to Internal Revenue Service over the past two years under the U.S. Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA). That is in addition to about 469,827 reports that the Canada Revenue Agency has transferred to the IRS under a Canada-U.S. agreement negotiated in the wake of the adoption…
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