Podcast: The Todd Veinotte Show May 30th, 2023
Posted May 30, 2023 01:00:46 PM.
Last Updated May 30, 2023 09:54:13 AM.
Hour 1: Wildfire update with HRM Deputy Fire Chief Dave Meldrum and David Steeves, Department of Natural Resources. Duncan Robertson, Nova Scotia policy analyst for the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, says small business owners in Nova Scotia are voicing mixed reactions to the federal government’s announcement last week that it has negotiated lower interchange fees that businesses have to pay each time a customer uses a Visa and Mastercard credit card. Natasha Chestnut, the executive director of the Restaurant Association of Nova Scotia, discusses how the restaurant sector took the greatest advantage of many provincial grant programs through the COVID-19 pandemic, but challenges for the industry remain as the province removed the last traces of the COVID-19 protection order Tuesday. NSTU President Ryan Lutes gives us an update as the CUPE strike continues.
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Hour 2: It’s the Open Hour. Todd takes your calls!
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Hour 3: Heather Mulligan, Canadian Cancer Society’s Manager of Advocacy for Atlantic Canada, shares how three national health organizations want Canada’s premiers to push for initiatives to reduce smoking during settlement negotiations with major tobacco companies years after provinces sued to recoup healthcare costs. Patrick Brannon, Senior Researcher, Atlantic Provinces Economic Council, APEC, answers why energy is vital to our net-zero transition. Tara Sampalli and Ashley Harnish, Nova Scotia Health Authority, share where the mobile primary care clinic will be for those impacted by the wildfire. Jesse Covey from Freemans Little New York shares how he is donating his time and pizza to help feed first responders and those displaced from the fire. Dr. Simon Sherry, a clinical psychologist at CRUX Psychology and professor in the department of psychology and neuroscience at Dalhousie University, says the currently uncontrolled forest fire near Halifax, Nova Scotia, will cause stress, anxiety, and grief amongst those displaced and people in neighbouring communities.
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