The freighter Cuidad de Detroit was docked at the Halifax Shipyard when this photo was published on Oct. 30, 1961. The sign on the shed reads DOSCO Halifax Shipyards. According to the shipyard union website ( www.cawlocal.ca/CAWMWF/history.asp), the Dominion Steel and Coal Corp. sold controlling interest in the shipyard to A.V. Roe Canada, which became Hawker Siddeley Canada. After that firm went into receivership in 1978, the yard was operated by both Halifax Industries Ltd. and Halifax-Dartmouth Industries Ltd., and is now owned by Irving Shipbuilding Inc.(HARRY A. COCHRANE / The Chronicle Herald archive)
Every January, Statistics Canada determines how much or whether the cost of living rose the year before and Workers’ Compensation uses the Stats Canada total to determine whether permanent benefits (pensions) will be increased for the year ahead. For example, if the consumer price index rose by two per cent, the WCB increases pensions by half.
I’m an injured worker and a week or so ago I received a letter from Workers’ Compensation stating that since the CPI didn’t increase in 2009, my pension won’t increase this year. In fact, it points out that in Nova Scotia, the CPI/cost of living actually went down.
Now I know what it’s like to be dead. I attended Halifax regional municipality’s public meeting in Lower Sackville dealing witH polling district boundaries. I’ve been to funerals that were livelier.
