Close to 60 per cent of campaign donations in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality’s 2016 election came from businesses and unions, a CBC News investigation has found. That’s a higher rate than the Halifax Regional Municipality, where only 37 per cent of donations came from those sources. Unlike provincial and federal elections, municipal elections in Nova Scotia have no restrictions on who can donate, or how much. “The question is whether a reasonable person looking at it would think there is a potential to be influenced,” said Guy Giorno, an…
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CBRM meeting agenda may rile residents
CBRM meeting agenda may rile residents SYDNEY, N.S. – Two issues that have been known to rile up residents of the Cape Breton Regional Municipality — council compensation and heavy garbage pickup — will be on the agenda for today’s general committee meeting. The issue paper prepared for the meeting by Gordie MacDougall, the CBRM’s director of human resources, outlines three possible scenarios for compensation for council to consider — maintaining the status quo; maintaining the current salary including one-third non-taxable but removing the $140 weekly travel allowance and allowing…
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