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'Show us the money': N.L. premier says open to hydro deal if Quebec pays up

'Show us the money': N.L. premier says open to hydro deal if Quebec pays up

Quebec must be ready to pay if it wants more electricity from Newfoundland and Labrador, Premier Andrew Furey said Monday, describing the current arrangement as “punishing” for his province.
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A year after Fiona, a traumatized Newfoundland town backs away from the sea

A year after Fiona, a traumatized Newfoundland town backs away from the sea

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — One year after a wave driven by post-tropical storm Fiona slammed into the back of her house and twisted it like a corkscrew, Lori Dicks now lives up on a hill, far from the water.
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More help offered to 100 people forced to flee fire-damaged Fredericton apartments

More help offered to 100 people forced to flee fire-damaged Fredericton apartments

FREDERICTON — Community groups in New Brunswick are coming together to help more than 100 people in Fredericton who fled a burning apartment building last Thursday.
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Nova Scotia expands immigration program in bid to fill pharmacy, paramedic jobs

Nova Scotia expands immigration program in bid to fill pharmacy, paramedic jobs

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia is expanding a fast-tracked immigration program to include international students who want to become paramedics and pharmacy technicians, in its latest move to address health worker shortages.
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Federal Fiona recovery fund providing $9 million for community comfort centres

Federal Fiona recovery fund providing $9 million for community comfort centres

NEW GLASGOW, N.S. — Communities hit last year by post-tropical storm Fiona can access $9 million in federal funding to help bolster facilities that can offer refuge to residents affected by the next big storm.
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A year after Fiona: Nova Scotians still fear blackouts as utility claims improvements

A year after Fiona: Nova Scotians still fear blackouts as utility claims improvements

HALIFAX — Vaughn Mullen has grown weary of Nova Scotia Power's promises for improvement, as fall hurricane season brings lengthy power outages he feels could be avoided.
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Nova Scotia RCMP street check apology needed, says minister who cites own experience

Nova Scotia RCMP street check apology needed, says minister who cites own experience

HALIFAX — The RCMP's promise to apologize for street checks that targeted Black people is being welcomed by the new African Nova Scotian Affairs minister, but she says she is more interested in what it will mean for future police conduct.
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Nesting cormorants — and their droppings — have taken over a harbour in Nova Scotia

Nesting cormorants — and their droppings — have taken over a harbour in Nova Scotia

SYDNEY, N.S. — It's a battle in the skies — and so far, the bombing cormorants sowing scatological havoc in a Nova Scotia harbour are winning. For the second year, cormorants have squatted in the Sydney, N.S., harbour for their nesting season.
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Nova Scotia to mirror Ottawa and remove sales tax from new rental constructions

Nova Scotia to mirror Ottawa and remove sales tax from new rental constructions

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia will remove the provincial portion of the harmonized sales tax from the construction of new rental apartment buildings, Premier Tim Houston said Thursday.
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Most of Nova Scotia's lobster fleet well-suited to go electric: study

Most of Nova Scotia's lobster fleet well-suited to go electric: study

HALIFAX — An environmental group has concluded that about 2,300 lobster boats operating off Nova Scotia are suitable candidates to switch from diesel to electric motor, a change that would slash the industry's emissions.
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