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• NS: French pitch new warships as potential design...
  [HALIFAX, NS] — France showcased its latest warship to the federal defence minister Saturday in Halifax, as the Royal Canadian Navy considers ...
• NS: Scotiabank CEO says his bank doesn't plan to...
  [HALIFAX, NS] – Scotiabank is not planning to outsource jobs at the bank to temporary foreign workers, but will expand the use of international ...
• NS: Communications Nova Scotia's big budget prompts...
  [HALIFAX, NS] — The communications arm of the Nova Scotia government has seen its budget triple in the last decade, a rate of growth that ...
• NS: Deep Panuke natural gas project on hold
  [HALIFAX, NS] - Energy giant EnCana has put its Deep Panuke natural gas project on hold temporarily while an investigation is carried out into ...
• NS: One-industry towns watch as economy passes them by
  [HANTSPORT, NS] — Glenn Rogers appreciated his small-town life in the Maritimes. But the lure of big dollars in Alberta was too strong to resist ...
• NS: Harper's absence threatens to overshadow...
  [HALIFAX, NS] – Canada's premiers are arriving in Halifax in the hopes of striking a common economic plan at a time of tepid growth and mounting ...
• NS: Province signs deal with Port Hawkesbury Paper mill
  [HALIFAX, NS] — The Port Hawkesbury Paper mill will be required to buy 200,000 tonnes of pulpwood from private wood suppliers annually under an ...
• NS: LNG development proposed for eastern Nova Scotia
  [HALIFAX, NS] – A small Calgary-based firm is proposing to liquefy natural gas on Nova Scotia's east coast and ship it overseas to markets in ...
• NB & NS: Cuts to fisheries worry university scientists
  [ST. ANDREWS, NB] — Scientific projects such as the development of disease-resistant salmon in New Brunswick and an examination of how climate ...
• ACOA appointments under investigation
  [ATLANTIC REGION] — The Public Service Commission of Canada is investigating whether the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency made inappropriate ...
• NS: Ex MLA gets nine months in jail in spending scandal
  [SYDNEY, NS] — A former Nova Scotia politician who defrauded the public purse of nearly $61,000 to feed a gambling addiction was sentenced ...
• NS & NL: Locked-out workers board OCI vessel in Nova...
  [MULGRAVE, NS] — Locked-out trawler workers boarded a fishing vessel owned by Ocean Choice International in Nova Scotia on Thursday to protest ...
• Dawn of new shipbuilding era brings hopes for end to...
  [HALIFAX, NS] — The last time Ottawa promised a new era in Canadian shipbuilding, it didn't end well for Douglas Noftell. The 59-year-old was ...
• NS: Province offers $50M package for Bowater Mersey...
  [LIVERPOOL, NS] - The Nova Scotia government claimed Friday that it has staved off the closure of the Bowater Mersey paper mill with a ...
• NS: Support package for troubled paper mill on the way
  [HALIFAX, NS] - The government of Nova Scotia has worked out a multimillion-dollar support package to help keep the Bowater Mersey paper mill ...
• NS: NewPage paper mill final offers expected soon
  [HALIFAX, NS] — The court-appointed monitor overseeing efforts to restart a shuttered Cape Breton paper mill says final offers to buy the plant ...
• NS: Safety board reveals bad repair work led to...
  [AVONDALE, NS] — Transport officials said Monday that abnormal repair work led to a train derailment last year in northern Nova Scotia that ...
• NS: Cash could be coming soon for beleaguered...
  [HALIFAX, NS] — Badly needed cash will flow to forestry contractors this week for work they did for a shuttered Cape Breton paper mill, says a ...
• NS: NewPage mill bidders need power rate break, says...
  [POINT TUPPER, NS] — The court-appointed monitor overseeing the sale of an idled paper mill in Cape Breton said Wednesday two potential buyers ...
• NS: NewPage mill gets creditor protection extended...
  [HALIFAX, NS] — A financially troubled paper mill in Cape Breton was granted a two-month extension of its creditor protection Wednesday as the ...
• NS: Forestry firms owed money by NewPage can start...
  [HALIFAX, NS] — A Nova Scotia judge has approved a plan to pay a portion of the debts owed to about 300 wood suppliers and silviculture operators ...
• NS: Provincial government gave $2.3M in merit pay to...
  [HALIFAX, NS] — Nova Scotia's government provided $2.3 million in merit pay to more than 1,000 civil servants in the last fiscal year, a practice ...
• NS: National lobby group applauds Nova Scotia for...
  [HALIFAX, NS] - A national lobby group for wind energy is applauding Nova Scotia's energy regulator for setting a price that small ...
• NS: Lobster fishermen hold smelly protest against...
  [HALIFAX, NS] - Lobster fishermen hauling traps and bags of stinking sludge descended on Nova Scotia's legislature Friday to protest against ...
• NS: Executives wined and dined at Olympic Games last...
  [HALIFAX, NS] - A Nova Scotia Crown agency paid for $724-per-night hotel rooms and $775 hockey tickets for business executives during the ...
• NS: Government brings broadband Internet to almost...
  [HALIFAX, NS] - The government of Nova Scotia says it is close to providing high-speed, broadband Internet service to any customer in the ...
• NS: Provincial official wants study on VLT gambling...
  [HALIFAX, NS] - A draft report on the social and economic impacts of gambling that was shelved about 18 months ago by the Nova Scotia government ...
• International capital requirements could stifle...
  [HALIFAX, NS] - Scotiabank's chief executive says economic growth could be stifled by that new, stricter regulations for banks that are being put ...
• Federal election would freeze decisions on big...
  [HALIFAX, NS] - Defence Minister Peter MacKay is warning that a federal election would put decisions on funding for Atlantic Canadian projects on ...
• NS: Disabled woman questions discrepancies in care...
  [HALIFAX , NS]- A disabled Nova Scotia woman is questioning why provincial funding for the hourly wage of a home care worker is almost $8 lower ...