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Written by CUPW
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Wednesday, 15 March 2006 |
The Canadian Union of Postal Workers today launched a new campaign called "Operation Transparency," with the delivery of a public ultimatum to Canada Post. The president of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, Deborah Bourque, asked her Canada Post counterpart, Moya Greene, to disclose the plans for postal services by May 15, 2006, or face escalating actions that could go as far as non-violent civil disobedience.
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Written by NDP News Release
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Tuesday, 14 March 2006 |
Opposition Leader Darrell Dexter has written Prime Minister Stephen Harper to ask him for a public statement reaffirming the Government of Canada's commitment to the Offshore Accord signed by the federal government and Nova Scotia in February 2005.
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Written by ACTRA
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Monday, 13 March 2006 |
The leader of Nova Scotia's television and film actors says the local film industry is heading for a major slump unless the Conservative government lives up to its promises keep its Film Tax Credit competitive with other provinces.
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Written by NS Government
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Friday, 10 March 2006 |
The Nova Scotia government will introduce legislation this spring to help protect Nova Scotia electricity consumers by restricting the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board to granting only one power rate increase per year.
The utility and review board today, March 10, allowed an 8.9% increase in the domestic residential power rate. This is the second rate increase in slightly less than a year.
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Written by NS Liberal Party
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Wednesday, 01 March 2006 |
Liberal Leader Francis MacKenzie offers his sincere apology to Premier Rodney MacDonald and the people of Nova Scotia for comments he made to the media after the swearing in of the New Provincial Conservative Cabinet last Friday.
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Written by NS Liberal Party
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Tuesday, 28 February 2006 |
Liberal MLA Leo Glavine is concerned the new Minister of Natural Resources will be able to pick and choose members of an off-highway vehicle advisory committee behind closed doors.
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Written by CUPE
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Monday, 27 February 2006 |
Workers at three more Nova Scotia nursing homes have voted to take strike action to back their union's contract demands.
The 90 employees at Shoreham Village in Chester, members of CUPE Local 3454, voted 80% in favour of taking strike action if the parties can't reach a negotiated settlement.
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Written by Office of The Premier
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Thursday, 23 February 2006 |
Premier-designate Rodney MacDonald announced on Feb. 23, the names of the 15 MLAs who will be in his cabinet. The provincial Executive Council will be sworn in on Friday, Feb. 24, at 11 a.m. in Halifax.
The premier-designate said that his cabinet and government will continue to co-operate and look for common ground with opposition parties, realizing that Nova Scotians want government to do its job, working for the people, not for partisan purposes. Ten of the members were in the previous cabinet, while five are newcomers.
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Written by NDP News Release
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Thursday, 23 February 2006 |
NDP Education Critic Bill Estabrooks is calling on Premier-designate Rodney MacDonald to explain who will be looking out for Nova Scotia's interests at tomorrow's Council of the Federation's Post-Secondary Education and Skills Summit in Ottawa, given that both MacDonald and outgoing Premier Hamm will be in Halifax for the swearing-in of the new cabinet.
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Written by NS Government
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Tuesday, 21 February 2006 |
There’ll soon be a buzz in the air in District 6, but the local Councillor says it won’t be music to everyone’s ears.
Councillor Andrew Younger said today that he has been advised that the Province of Nova Scotia will be harvesting Brown Spruce Longhorn Beetle-infested wood in the Lake Lamont/Topsail Watershed lands in Dartmouth, some time this week or later. The project could take up to two weeks to complete.
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