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Accountability at stake says AG as she urges Houston government to scrap changes to her office
Nova Scotia Auditor General Kim Adair is pleading with the Houston government to scrap changes being proposed to the law that governs her work, which she says seriously undermine the independence of her office.
N.S. could require universities facing money woes to submit 'revitalization plan'
Advanced Education Minister Brendan Maguire says legislative changes introduced Wednesday are meant to ensure the sustainability of the university sector.
N.S. auditor general says she could not do her job if Houston government has power to fire her
Nova Scotia Auditor General Kim Adair told CBC News she 'would not be independent and objective' if the Houston government gives itself the ability to fire her.
Houston government eliminating provincial communications arm
The Nova Scotia government is dissolving the department that was created in 1996 to provide 'objective and non-partisan' communications and marketing for the province.
More daycare spaces slated for Halifax area, Cape Breton
The Nova Scotia government is giving seven daycare operators a total of almost $9 million to create up to 335 new child-care spaces over the next year.
Anand suggests Canada's interprovincial barriers could crumble within a month
Internal Trade Minister Anita Anand told reporters in Halifax on Wednesday that long-standing internal trade barriers could be eliminated within 30 days.
N.S. businesses hope Trump tariff threat prompts action on provincial trade barriers
Some Nova Scotians see a silver lining to the threatened trade dispute between Canada and the U.S. — a renewed interest to eliminate interprovincial trade barriers.
'Too early to say' what N.S. government will provide in tariff aid: finance minister
Nova Scotia Finance Minister John Lohr said Thursday that it was "too early" to talk about what the province plans to do to help businesses that could be affected by new U.S. tariffs.
2 men injured in Dartmouth house fire
Two men were taken to hospital Friday after a fire tore through their house on Thompson Street in Dartmouth, N.S.
Court rules N.S. cabinet order to refill Lake Pisiquid 'rational, logical and justified'
A Nova Scotia Supreme Court judge has dismissed an attempt by a fisherman and researcher to get a judicial review of the order to refill Lake Pisiquid in Windsor, N.S.