Growing pressure on N.S. government to make COVID-19 vaccines mandatory for health-care workers

With mandatory vaccines looking more and more likely for healthcare workers in Nova Scotia, union reps say government will have to provide alternatives for workers who can't -- or won't -- get the shot.

Still, some say the issue shouldn't be negotiable.

The latter group includes 76-year-old John Dennis.

He will be 77 next month and says he's the oldest living lung transplant patient in Nova Scotia, and one of the oldest in Canada.

Now living at Northwood, he's still coming to terms with the loss of his beloved wife, Penny in June of last year.