There’s going to be a virtual job fair today for teachers interested in moving to Nova Scotia to teach.
The job fair is being co-hosted by the Nova Scotia Education Common Services Bureau that provides a variety of services to support the public education system.
It’s running online from 4:00 this afternoon to 7:00 tonight.
The organizers say participants will be able to meet with representatives from all 7 English Regional Centres for Education and the province's French school board.
Today’s job fair comes with Premier Tim Houston announcing earlier this year plans to lower entry requirements for education programs to help address the teacher shortage.
The Volendam is making its second visit to Sydney today.
The cruise ship can carry up to 1,432 passengers and 647 crew.
It’s scheduled to be in port until 5:00 this evening.
There’s going to be a special meeting of Regional Council this afternoon where councillors will hear from the Nova Scotia Federation of Municipalities or NSFM.
Today’s meeting comes after Council voted in January to invite the three associations the municipality belongs to, to appear before it to explain the benefits of being a member of their organization.
The move was prompted by councilors’ feelings of being abandoned by the NSFM when the province introduced a new Service Exchange Agreement with municipalities, last fall.
The new agreement will see the $15 million dollars a year the CBRM gets under the program be cut to $13.6 million after five years.
A municipal staff report says the CBRM pays an annual membership fee of $69,000 to be part of the NSFM with extra costs for travel and accommodations.
Auditor General Kim Adair says the completion rate of her office’s recommendations has slipped so much in the past three years it raises questions about government’s commitment to get them done.
Adair says the provincial government has completed just 76% of the 2019 recommendations and she says that’s a below-normal rate after three years.
She says momentum has further slowed to 45% and 42% in completing 2020 and 2021 recommendations.
Adair says the Public Works Department is responsible for more than half of the 11 recommendations still not completed from 2019 audits.
She says Public Works has completed just one of the seven recommendations from the 2019 audit of The Selection and Quality Management of Bridge Projects in Central and Western Districts.
The Ally Centre of Cape Breton has announced they will honour the late Eleanor Young from Eskasoni in the naming of the Rapid Housing Initiative building that’s currently under construction in north-end Sydney.
Young was 21-years-old when her body was found at the bottom of an embankment at the end of Harrison Avenue in Sydney in September.
The Ally Centre supported Young in Sydney and the group says the naming of the Rapid Housing Initiative building was selected by its clients.
The 25-unit building will be known as “Eleanor’s Court.”
The Ally Centre and New Dawn Enterprises got $5 million in funding for the housing project last year through Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation’s rapid housing initiative stream.
New Dawn says they hope to open by early next year.
