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3 hrs ago | The Chronicle Herald

Dear Future Mayor: Here's a cheat sheet

It's on. With Mike Savage now in, the contest for mayor of Halifax Regional Municipality is a real race.

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8 hrs ago | The Chronicle Herald

Greener pastures are waiting here in N.S.

The new census shows that two-thirds of Nova Scotia's rural counties are in decline while Halifax and some regional centres are growing.

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Sat Feb 11, 2012

The Toronto Star

Lawrence Hill's The Book of Negroes leaps from the page

On Valentine's Day, the Nathaniel Dett Chorale , led by founder and artistic director Brainerd Blyden-Taylor, is teaming up with author Lawrence Hill and jazz veteran pianist and composer Joe Sealy at Toronto's acoustically pristine Koerner Hall .

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The Chronicle Herald

Baillie: Premier should get on board

Provincial Tory Leader Jamie Baillie takes notes while listening to Labour and AdA vanced Education Minister Marilyn More speak in January.

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The Chronicle Herald

N.S. set to unveil cash for Valley point-of-sale firm

The Nova Scotia government is slated to inject cash Tuesday into a high-tech Annapolis Valley company that provides business owners with cutting-edge, point-of-sale analytics.

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The Chronicle Herald

Drivers: Put brakes on ticket bonanza

Halifax Regional Municipality's parking ticket revenues jumped nearly 30 per cent in the first week of the strike compared with the week before it began.

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The Chronicle Herald

Galaxy eyes Taj Mahal property for seven-storey project

The property where the Taj Mahal restaurant stands in Halifax is likely to change hands and possibly become part of a new South Street redevelopment.

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The Chronicle Herald

Helly Hansen wins $511,000 DND contract

In the event of an emergency at sea, a Dartmouth manufacturing firm will be the first thing on the minds of Canadian naval personnel.

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Fri Feb 10, 2012

The Chronicle Herald

Companies seek $843,000 in compensation from Halifax

Three development companies are asking the provincial regulator to review the compensation they received for land expropriated by the Halifax Regional Municipality to build a collector road.

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Yorkton This Week & Enterprise

Student designers from Montreal, Toronto and Halifax winners in Telio contest

Alexandre Arsenault walks the runway with a Specs model wearing his design at Montreal Fashion Week on Thursday, Feb.

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CBC News

RCMP search house in missing Dartmouth woman's case

RCMP are searching a residence in Centre Rawdon, N.S., in connection with the case of a Dartmouth woman who has been missing since November.

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The Daily News

Two teens arrested for Cole Harbour robbery

At 12:49 p.m. on Feb. 9, two masked suspects entered the store demanding money and cigarettes before fleeing.

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The Chronicle Herald

Holographic microscope to get ocean test

Some of the smallest ocean micro-organisms from the deepest and darkest depths of the Atlantic Ocean will soon be appearing on scientists' video screens through a collaboration between Resolution Optics of Halifax and the Bedford Institute of Oceanography.

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WTAE-TV Pittsburgh

Marijuana Nearly Doubles Risk Of Collisions

We hear a lot about the hazards of drunk driving, but here's something else to put on your radar: A study in the British Medical Journal found that marijuana nearly doubles the risk of vehicle collisions.

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WGMZ-FM Gadsden

April Wine

April Wine formed in late 1969 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, but vocalist/guitarist Myles Goodwyn, guitarist David Henman, drummer Ritchie Henman, and bassist Jimmy Henman soon moved to Montreal.

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Thu Feb 09, 2012

Fifty-plus.com

Trivia of the day for February 10

Africville was a small predominently Black settlement that lay within the city limits of Halifax, Nova Scotia.

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The Chronicle Herald

Dickson brokered key offshore deals for N.S.

Sen. Fred Dickson is being remembered as a powerful political operative, a prominent lawyer and a man who permanently reshaped Canada's offshore energy landscape, winning over $1 billion for his home province of Nova Scotia in the process.

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The Chronicle Herald

Man beaten with metal pipes

Halifax Police say a man found on a sidewalk outside a Dartmouth business Wednesday afternoon was beaten with metal pipes.

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The Cultural Gutter

Just Leave the Talking Skull Alone

This site is updated Thursday afternoon with a new article about an artistic pursuit generally considered to be beneath consideration.

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The Chronicle Herald

An ode to the green couch

One minute I am elated to be moving to my cool new digs and the other I am devastated and sure that we have made a huge mistake.

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