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MacPolitics: Zach Churchill’s Liberals Would Create Women’s Health Ministry; Spend $15M A Year Building/Expanding 40 Collaborative Care Clinics
MacPolitics: Claudia Chender’s NDP Aims Guns At Housing Minister John Lohr: ‘Lohr’s Priority in the Housing Crisis? Protecting His Friends and Family’s AirBnB’s!’
MacPolitics: Eastern Passage NDP Candidate, Tammy Jakeman Parts Way With Chender Party After Atlantic Jewish Council Called Antisemitic Social Media Posts ‘ Deeply Troubling
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The Meaning Of Donald Trump’s Return To The White House: Very Concerning For Canada: Greg MacEachern
Chester Notes: What Would Butch Heisler Say About Donald Trump’s Triumphant Return To The White House?
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Thirty-Five Years & Counting In Nova Scotia’s News Trenches, The Last 10 Years As A Weekend Journalism Read
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Don Mills: ‘A Business Point Of View’ – Cannabis Has Become Big Business in New Brunswick
MacPolitics: Fillmore Takes the Reins at City Hall
MacPolitics: Sen. Jane Cordy’s Retirement A Big Loss of Institutional Memory In Upper Chamber: Greg MacEachern
MacPolitics: Conservative Rob Batherson Wins Nod In Halifax West
MacPolitics: Rob Batherson In His Own Words
PC Spending ‘Reckless, In Many Cases Useless’: NDP Leader Chender
MacPolitics: Lots Of Similarities Between Tim Houston & John Buchanan
MacPolitics: Antigonish Candidates Debate At Mulroney Hall – Early Election Call Draws Comments From PC, Liberal & NDP Candidates
MacPolitics: Election Sayings: The Origin Of ‘Vote Early, Vote Often’
Remembrance Day: Why Your Realtor Won’t Call You Back On Monday
Remembrance Day & Voting — Why The Optics Are Off To Allow Voting On Remembrance Day
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Transportation
Halifax Port: Tom Hayes Retiring As Port Chair
Jun 4, 2023 | Transportation
Halifax Port: Captain Gray: ‘The Arrival Of Larger Container Ships Means Port Growth’
Jun 4, 2023 | Transportation
Exclusive: Halifax Port: Captain Allan Gray On A Second Term? A Conversation
May 28, 2023 | Transportation
HWY 104 Twinning: Dr. Jason Williams – Part Of The ‘Salt of Earth’ Family That Owned Large Lumber Tracts On Weaver Mountain
May 27, 2023 | Transportation
New Twinned Highway 104 Over Weaver’s Mountain Will Save Lives — Lloyd Hines
May 27, 2023 | Politics, Transportation
Lloyd Hines Took Heat From NDP Politicos Over P3 Work for 104 HWY – originally tolls were studied, too
May 22, 2023 | Politics, Transportation
Exclusive: Lloyd Hines Wanted To Name Twinned 104 Section After Fire Chief Joe – Had Talks Over Plan With Barney’s River Fire Brigade Chief
May 22, 2023 | Politics, Transportation
Before Fire Chief Joe Championed A Twinned Highway, Kingsley Brown Jr. Championed The Much Safer Blue Route
May 22, 2023 | Politics, Transportation
Revisiting Sean Fraser’s Role In Helping To Twin The 104 Trans-Canada Highway
May 21, 2023 | Politics, Transportation
104 HWY Victim’s Mother: ‘Name Highway After Fire Chief Joe MacDonald’
May 21, 2023 | Politics, Transportation
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