While spring means bulbs will start to appear in the garden, it also means that something has disappeared from our streets. The snow and ice on the roads have disappeared as have the road markings.
Each year, road surface markings seem to disappear almost as quickly as they are painted on. You are taking your life in your hands while driving down Manitoba Drive these days. While the regulars know where the lanes are, there are many people coming off the TCH who have no way of knowing. Over the past few days, it has been a free-for-all with cars in turning lanes going straight and straddling both lanes. This has been a problem in many towns for the past few years. Surely there's a solution to increase safety on our streets?
Finance Minister Wiseman summed up the Province's 2015 Budget reality succinctly: “We are in a very different spot”. In a period in which oil is less than half the value than it was a year earlier, “different spot” is may be a bit of an understatement. Things have changed a lot in a year and the minister and the government is facing some serious challenges. Minister Wiseman talk to the Clarenville Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday evening focused exclusively on how and why the government is planning to deal with the downturn – while trying to have a minimal impact on the economy. In his address he covered the following topics – each of which spoke to the basic principles government has looked at in its crafting the budget: · A Culture of Cost Management A Refocus our Health System A Refocus of the College of the North At...
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