Nova Scotia

Until now, no one has ever received any compensation from a provincial government. Well today, Nova Scotia decided it will offer compensation. The province says it’s the matter of compassion. Nova Scotia has about a dozen people who would qualify for compensation. Other provinces with hundreds more now face a difficult decision. Watch the full […]

The Nova Scotia Health Coalition is opposed to for-profit blood clinics due to the potential impact pay-for-plasma clinics have on the safety, security and supply of blood and plasma in the province and elsewhere. Health care is not a commodity to be bought and sold on the market. Send Health & Wellness Minister Leo Glavine […]

The current controversy in Nova Scotia about paying donors for blood has been fraught with misinformation. The public deserves to know the truth about what is happening in our country. I am a hemophiliac who has depended on safe blood products and was infected with hepatitis C from medicine manufactured with contaminated blood in 1984 […]

A group that advocates for public health care is seeing red over concerns pay-for-plasma clinics could set up in the province. The Nova Scotia Citizens’ Health Care Network sent a letter Monday to provincial health minister Leo Glavine expressing concerns and urging the province to pass legislation that would ban the sale of blood and […]

The current controversy in Nova Scotia about paying donors for blood has been fraught with misinformation. The public deserves to know the truth about what is happening in our country. I am a hemophiliac who has depended on safe blood products and was infected with hepatitis C from medicine manufactured with contaminated blood in 1984 […]