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Two managers at the Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility in Burnside have been fired after a suicide in the facility in April.

 

The Nova Scotia Government and General Employees' Union, which represents staff at the provincial jail, confirmed the dismissals.

 

NSGEU president Joan Jessome said Wednesday that the two managers were let go at the same time that seven of her members were disciplined.

 

The unionized employees have 25 days to decide if they will file a grievance.

 

On Tuesday, Justice Minister Ross Landry said an internal review found employees did not follow protocol. On Thursday, he said the managers were fired as a result of their performance and not because of the suicide.

 

By: JIM DAY, The Guardian

 

When the methadone maintenance treatment program was first piloted on P.E.I. in 2004, Dr. Don Ling was expecting many failures.

 

Ling, a medical consultant with the Provincial Addictions Treatment Facility (PATF), thought he was being optimistic in hoping for just half the patients in the program to emerge as "success stories'. That would, of course, leave a whopping 50 per cent to continue to wallow in their troubled world of drug addiction.

 

Ling's initial forecast has been proven wrong -- pleasantly so, in fact.

 

"I think the success of this program is 80 per cent plus,' he said.

 

By Desmond Devoy, Ottawa East EMC

 

EMC News - Senator Mike Duffy has admitted that the Harper government "dropped the ball," in explaining the reasons behind its decision to prorogue Parliament.

While the House of Commons has resumed sitting this week for the first time since December, with both a Speech from the Throne and a budget scheduled to be delivered, Senator Duffy felt that the Conservative government could have done a better job selling its decision to suspend parliament.