The Rick Howe Show – 12 PM

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Posted Sep 29, 2014 08:06:06 AM.

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Monday September 29, 2014

NSGEU President Joan Jessome weighs in on merging the health care unions. We discuss this weekend’s deck collapse with Paul Pettipas from Nova Scotia Home Builders Association. Dartmouth father Duncan Wentzel tells us about his protest for the provincial Maintenance Enforcement Program to work properly. NDP MP Dartmouth-Cole Harbour Robert Chisholm  gives us his reaction to the decision to close the Shannon Park Arena. We get an interesting history lesson from historian Peter Twohig.

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