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October 28, 2015 - 15:15 — Timothy Gillespie

Social service funding cuts, consultant contracts bother NDP

In a news release Wednesday, NDP MLA Marian Mancini is asking Communities Services Minister Joanne Bernard to justify giving $1.5 million to consulting firms to review her department after cutting $446,000 from nine charities that support our most vulnerable. The McNeil government, says Mancini, has also placed a two year freeze on income assistance.

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January 29, 2015 - 14:37 — Timothy Gillespie

Minister says gutting Barrington community service office should have happened sooner

Decision "out of the "blue", says warden.
Minister breaks promise made in the legislature, says MLA

The Barrington Municipal Council is none to pleased about a decision by the Department of Community services to eliminate five child protection worker positions in the Barrington office

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December 4, 2015 - 11:14 — Timothy Gillespie

'Draconian' child services bill made worse by amewndments

Lawyer Rollie Thompson, family law professor at the Schulich School of Law at Dalhouise and author of the original child protection law, told the Law Amendments Committee last week that the McNeil government's proposed amendments would make the bill worse, not better, as Community Services minister Joanne Bernard has asserte

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