| | | Good evening, these are your top stories for Thursday, January 04, 2024. Go to cbc.ca/news to read more stories. | | | | | January 3 , 2024 • 05:47 PM AST | As the strike by workers at the downtown Halifax Pete's Frootique location enters its seventh week, Tyson Boyd said he and his colleagues are starting to feel "a little angry and a little fed up." | Read more | | | | January 3 , 2024 • 02:21 PM AST | A news release from the province said the rate "is to be adjusted by the national consumer price index plus one percentage point from the minimum wage set the preceding April | Read more | | | | January 3 , 2024 • 03:55 PM AST | A Nova Scotia lawyer says a homeless client who died in an encampment last month had been fighting for improved income assistance for people living in tents. | Read more | | | | | January 3 , 2024 • 06:47 PM AST | The University of Prince Edward Island has released a draft of the five-year action plan it will use to follow through on the recommendations from the Rubin Thomlinson report, which identified a toxic environment on campus, where bullying and harassment were widespread and condoned at an institutional level. | Read more | | | | January 3 , 2024 • 07:05 PM AST | The public learned through an access-to-information request that the police were closing the investigation into fire that destroyed 150 homes in Upper Tantallon, N.S. Dustin O'Leary of the Westwood Hills Residents Association says many in his community are frustrated and disappointed by the news. | Watch | | | | Enjoying this newsletter? You may also like CBC News Morning Brief, the news you need to know to start the day. Delivered weekday mornings. Sign up here | | | | | | | | | | | January 3 , 2024 • 06:36 PM AST | | Watch | | | | | | Share this newsletter | | or subscribe if this was forwarded to you. | | | | That's all for now. Check cbc.ca/news throughout the day for the most recent headlines. | | | | | |