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Keith Doucette
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All articles of Keith Doucette
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NS: European economic problems keep finance minister...
[HALIFAX, NS] - With word circulating that a free trade deal may be close with the European Union, Canada's finance minister told an audience in ... -
NS: Minority report - Study reveals minority...
[HALIFAX, NS] - When visible minorities in Nova Scotia go shopping, they are more often the targets of offensive language or treated as potential ... -
NS: Longtime Liberal MLA retires after absence...
[HALIFAX, NS] - Facing scrutiny for taking a month-long vacation while the Nova Scotia legislature was in session, longtime Liberal Manning ... -
NS: Panel established to develop rules for fish farms
[HALIFAX, NS] — A panel has been created in Nova Scotia to recommend new regulations to govern the aquaculture industry by the end of next year, ... -
NS: Auditor general to review Nova Scotia Liberal's...
[HALIFAX, NS] - Nova Scotia's auditor general is reviewing a living allowance paid to Liberal member Michel Samson, legislature Speaker Gordie ... -
NS: Nova Scotia premier takes swipe at opposition...
[HALIFAX, NS] — Plans by Nova Scotia's opposition parties to cut the number of health districts won't save money and will transfer more work to ... -
NS: MLA's living allowance expenses in question
[HALIFAX, NS] - A Liberal member of the Nova Scotia legislature says he is disputing a ruling by the Speaker that has suspended the living ... -
NS: Government, opposition wave dueling reports on...
[HALIFAX, NS] — Conflicting reports were tabled in the Nova Scotia legislature Wednesday that both the government and Opposition Liberals said ... -
NS: Mixed reaction to Nova Scotia budget
[HALIFAX, NS] — Nova Scotia's NDP government tabled a slim surplus Thursday of $16.4 million, offering a smattering of small populist measures in ... -
NS: Nova Scotia tables $16M surplus
[HALIFAX, NS] - Nova Scotia's NDP government tabled a slim surplus Thursday of $16.4 million in a budget that aims to appeal to the public before ... -
NS: Balanced budget represents a promise tweaked...
[HALIFAX, NS] - When Nova Scotia's finance minister presents a balanced budget today, she will fulfil a promise that the NDP has tweaked since it ... -
NS: Former politician testifies in defence at his...
[HALIFAX, NS] — A former Nova Scotia cabinet minister says he didn't personally benefit from expense claims and is denying allegations made at ... -
NS: Crown starts laying out case in political...
[HALIFAX, NS] - The Crown began methodically laying out its case as the trial of a former provincial cabinet minister charged in Nova Scotia's ... -
NS: Rejection of Yarmouth ferry proposals elicits...
[HALIFAX, NS] — Proposals to resume a ferry service linking Yarmouth to Maine were rejected yesterday, eliminating any possibility that the ... -
NS: Emera says Muskrat Falls would mean initial...
[HALIFAX, NS] — Nova Scotia consumers were given their first estimate Friday of what the Muskrat Falls hydroelectric project in Labrador could ... -
NS & NL: Electricity from Labrador would be cheaper...
[HALIFAX, NS] — A study conducted for the Nova Scotia government says buying electricity from the proposed Muskrat Falls project in Labrador ... -
NS & NL: Study finds Muskrat Falls is cheapest...
[HALIFAX, NS] — A study conducted for the Nova Scotia government to be released Thursday concludes that the Muskrat Falls hydroelectric project ... -
NS: Dwindling reserves, price volatility prompts...
[HALIFAX, NS] — Dwindling natural gas reserves coupled with price fluctuations has prompted the Nova Scotia government to launch a study on how ... -
NS: Former NewPage workers may get bill after...
[HALIFAX, NS] — A mistake in pension calculations could see about 250 retirees from the former NewPage Port Hawkesbury mill in Cape Breton hit ... -
NS: Nova Scotia hospitals in urgent need of funding...
[HALIFAX, NS] – Nova Scotia's auditor general sounded the alarm over the state of the province's hospitals Wednesday, warning that they will ... -
NS: Premier rejects AG's call for review of...
[HALIFAX, NS] – Another review examining the prospects of the $500-million convention centre in Halifax isn't necessary, Premier Darrell Dexter ... -
NS: BP deal lifts oil hopes in Nova Scotia
[HALIFAX, NS] — BP has been granted the right to explore in Nova Scotia's offshore after the energy giant submitted a $1 billion bid, the highest ... -
NS: Premier calls behaviour of Bennington Group CEO...
[HALIFAX, NS] — A salvager said he was walking away from the removal of a derelict ship off Cape Breton on Wednesday, prompting Nova Scotia's ... -
NS: Government interested in staking claim on mill...
[HALIFAX, NS] — The Nova Scotia government wants to buy the assets of a shuttered paper mill owned by Resolute Forest Products Inc. in order to ... -
NS: NDP deal to outsource IT to IBM angers union base
[HALIFAX, NS] — Nova Scotia's NDP government outsourced its computer information system to IBM Canada on Thursday in a deal it hopes will create ... -
NS: Premier puts untendered fisheries lease on hold
[HALIFAX, NS] — Nova Scotia's premier unexpectedly put an untendered lease on hold Wednesday, shortly after one of his cabinet ministers defended ... -
NS: Nova Scotia releases cost of lease in Fisheries...
[HALIFAX, NS] – A $289,000 untendered lease secured to move the provincial Fisheries Department to the Annapolis Valley was questioned by Nova ... -
NS: Nova Scotia government says funding deal for...
[HALIFAX, NS] – A provincial funding package considered vital to resume operations at the NewPage Port Hawkesbury paper mill is not in danger of ... -
NS: Prospective mill owner loses bid to pay less...
[HALIFAX, NS] — A Nova Scotia municipality has won its legal battle to retain a 10-year-tax deal with the prospective owners of the NewPage Port ... -
NS: NS Power loses fight to keep parts of audit from...
[HALIFAX, NS] — An audit calling on Nova Scotia Power to refund its customers because it allegedly overcharged them $22 million should be ...

