INVERNESS: A Port Hood native who has served in two provincial government departments is hoping to erase an 18-year drought for the Liberal Party in the riding of Inverness during the upcoming provincial election.
Bobby Morris, who has spent the...
HALIFAX: Nova Scotians will be going to the polls at the end of this month.
On April 30, incumbent Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil asked Lieutenant- Governor JJ Grant to dissolve the provincial government and call a general election, which...
PORT HAWKESBURY: The NDP has a new face in a local riding.
Isle Madame native Larry Keating is set to be announced as the NDP candidate for Cape Breton-Richmond riding during an April 9 nomination meeting at the Louisdale Lions...
On May 19 five of us, ordinary women in the Strait area, met over a cup of coffee to discuss the place and quality of palliative care in our health care system.
The structure of society has undergone radical changes...
NEW GLASGOW: With three candidates now nominated in Strait area ridings and a two-term MLA expected to reoffer in the fourth, provincial Progressive Conservative (PC) Leader Jamie Baillie is confident about his party’s chances in an election that could...
CENTRAL NOVA: As the federal election is now only five days away, candidates in both Central Nova and Cape Breton-Canso are making the final push in their campaigns.
Katerina Nikas, the Green Party candidate...
In the fall of 2011, NewPage filed for creditor protection. One of the major issues facing our community was the state of the mill’s pension plans and their unfunded liability.
I met and heard from retirees, widows and current employees...
Even as it became all too clear that we were going to have a provincial election this spring, I wasn’t prepared for this campaign to have such a record-setting nature.
No, I’m not talking about the shortness of the campaign,...
GUYSBOROUGH: It wasn’t even the slimmest margin of victory in his 29-year political career, but Lloyd Hines is not likely to forget the seesaw battle that marked his latest provincial election victory.
The Liberal incumbent for Guysborough-Eastern Shore-Tracadie traded leads...
With the provincial election almost over, anticipation is running high as to what will happen on May 30.
Without the ability to predict the results, especially considering this province’s tumultuous recent history, reviewing provincial and local results from the 2006,...