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Campaign debts
Submitted by Wolfville Watch on 10.29.08 at 7:10am.
A number of candidates have some big debts after the campaign. Not municipal ones; we don’t know anything about those and we don’t think anyone cares, we are talking about Federal leadership candidates.
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Rodney Announces Larger Film Tax Credit
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 09.13.07 at 7:17pm.
At the launch of the 2007 Atlantic Film Festival on Thursday night Nova Scotia Premier Rodney MacDonald announced exactly what many film industry reps in the audience wanted to hear: an increase in the NS Film Tax Credit.
And what a rise! From 35 per cent to 50 per cent, with a 5 per cent freq...
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In the eye of the tiger
Submitted by Marilyn Smulders on 07.18.07 at 11:39am.
Michael Bradfield asks, "What happened in Ireland?"
Ireland's economic boom - dubbed the Celtic Tiger - of the 1990s brought back ex-pats.
Every time a company pulls out of Atlantic Canada or employment figures take a dip, you’ll hear the refrain — Why don’t we cut corporate taxes and ...
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The Premier hits the barricades, better late than never
Submitted by Waye Mason on 06.12.07 at 5:12am.
It is hard to say just what the damage to government of Canada will be since the rhetoric over the Atlantic Accord hit the boiling point this week. Bill Casey’s lonely stand against his government has quickly became a heroic and principled stand, at least out east.
Just what is at stake regard...
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Casey offers a drop of water in Nova Scotia’s political desert.
Submitted by Waye Mason on 06.6.07 at 6:39am.
Yesterday Bill Casey, Nova Scotia’s most senior Tory MP, demonstrated a remarkable amount of guts by voting against his government’s own budget. As a result he is likely to be ejected from the government caucus today.
The government has been spinning madly the last few days leading up to the v...
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Saving our tourism industry
Submitted by Richard Levangie on 06.4.07 at 10:19am.
The Nova Scotia tourism industry is being nibbled to death by a thousand ducks.
You can see it most clearly in small towns like Lunenburg, where I live. Virtually every country inn in town is for sale. Restaurants that used to stay open all year are closing in October and November. Tourism-bas...
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Fear replaced trust in the Commonwealth Games bid process
Submitted by Waye Mason on 03.8.07 at 6:57pm.
As the dream of a “world class” Commonwealth Games slips from the 2014 Bid Committee’s grasp, it is time to examine the root of many citizens' mistrust and fear of the politics behind the bid.
There was palpable panic and frustration coming from Scott Logan -- the bid’s head honcho -- last wee...
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