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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 ...