News Topic - Nova Scotia

Expected delays of large construction projects to restrain Nova Scotia's growth rate, says RBC
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Canada NewsWire  –  Jul 3, 2008 09:50 AM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
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MP Keddy to meet with N.S. lobster fishermen protesting scallop draggers
The Canadian Press - BARRINGTON PASSAGE, N.S. - Nova Scotia lobster fishermen who claim inshore scallop draggers are damaging their catch were expected to discuss their concerns Thursday with their local MP.
Yahoo!  –  Jul 2, 2008 11:44 PM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
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Nova Scotia looks to ATV industry
The Nova Scotia government has the ATV industry in its sights as it tries to recoup the $230,000 it spent on child-size machines.
CBC.ca  –  Jul 2, 2008 9:36 PM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
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Officers of anti-sealing vessel plead not guilty in N.S. court
CBC - The captain and first officer of the Farley Mowat, the ship seized after a protest of Canada's seal hunt, have pleaded not guilty in a Nova Scotia courtroom to coming too close to sealers.
Yahoo!  –  Jul 2, 2008 5:10 PM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
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Fiddle frenzy, Nova Scotia style
Natalie MacMaster & Donnell Leahy to play at Calumet Theatre
WLUC TV6  –  Jul 2, 2008 4:10 PM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
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SNC-Lavalin acquires engineering firm in Nova Scotia
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Former MP and judge MacEwan dies
Russell MacEwan, a former member of Parliament for Nova Scotia and provincial court judge, died Sunday at the age of 83.
CBC.ca  –  Jul 2, 2008 1:31 PM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
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Kaptur, others will tour Nova Scotia site that may become link for Toledo freight shipments
U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D., Toledo) will lead a nine-person Toledo delegation to Nova Scotia to tour the site of a proposed deepwater container terminal that could become a link for international freight shipments to and from Toledo.
ToledoBlade.com  –  Jul 1, 2008 09:53 AM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
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Sharks disappearing from Mediterranean
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, June 30 (UPI) -- Canadian and Italian researchers say the shark population in the Mediterranean Sea has fallen by more than 97 percent in the past two centuries.
United Press International  –  Jul 1, 2008 02:46 AM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
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N.S. government will take a year to come up with plan to fight poverty
The Nova Scotia government promised Monday to spend the next year working on a strategy to reduce poverty in the province.
CBC.ca  –  Jun 30, 2008 6:32 PM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
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