More than 180,000 people in Newfoundland and Labrador will begin receiving a one-time GST/HST top-up in their bank accounts starting Friday. The payment marks the final GST credit before Ottawa introduces the new Grocery Benefit in July. NTV’s Bailey Howard reports.
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Opposition leader Tony Wakeham is highlighting group home conditions after a resident shared their concerns with the Minister of Children, Seniors and Social Development, of a group home in his neighbourhood, which Wakeham says the minister dismissed.
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A report last spring recommended a $25,000-a-year pay increase for MHAs. The issue needs to be voted on by the House of Assembly, but Premier Andrew Furey says he opposes that large of a raise.
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Premier Andrew Furey faced questions today after other provinces have raised concerns about Ottawa wanting them to take thousands more asylum seekers. But Furey says Newfoundland and Labrador has only been asked to take 190.
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Two contracts totalling three million dollars have been awarded for brush clearing for the upcoming expansion of Trans Canada Highway in this province. As NTV’s Becky Daley tells us, NAPE had been concerned about a public-partnership, but the government now says public workers will handle snow clearing and other services.
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