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Brison Pushes Port Authority To Reveal Expenses
Jun 23, 2017 | Transportation
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Diana Dalton To Port Board – Ron Pink Gets Brushed Aside
Jun 9, 2017 | Transportation
Leading labour and employment lawyer Ron Pink has again been passed over by Ottawa for a Halifax Port Authority directorship, says waterfront union leader Kevin Piper.
Piper, who heads Halifax Longshoremen’s Association Local 269, had put forward Pink’s name last year.
Digby Poor House Road Battle
May 19, 2017 | Transportation
The group Voices for Hope has been embroiled in a battle with the Nova Scotia government to save a plot of land near Digby filled with unmarked graves that date back over 100 years and which could contain over 300 bodies.
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May 12, 2017 | Transportation
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NS Strait of lost dreams.
Confederation Bridge, the fixed link to Prince Edward Island, turns 20 years old on May 31.
Begun in 1993 and opened in 1997, the bridge to the Island was conceived over after-dinner drinks by two Nova Scotia road giants, close business buddies.
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