I watched the Standing Committee on Public Accounts session last Wednesday during which it looked into what had happened at Island Employment (IE) — the session that ended with the PC majority on the committee voting against Dartmouth North NDP MLA Susan LeBlanc’s motion asking Auditor General Kim Adair toRead More

Susan Leblanc, the NDP MLA for Dartmouth North, has introduced a bill that would see the provincial government guarantee personal, short-term, “micro-loans” for amounts up to $2,000 from credit unions. I spoke to Leblanc briefly, by phone, on Friday and she told me the guarantee would be similar to theRead More