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Cooke Aquaculture is eligible for $4 million in “loan forgiveness” to fund a university research chair named after the company

Morning File, Tuesday, April 3, 2018

April 3, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 7 Comments

1. We’re giving Cooke Aquaculture a free research chair Perennia Food & Agriculture Inc., which is the nonprofit funded by the province and housed at the Bestest Nova Scotian Evah! Ray Ivany campus on the Nova Scotia Community College and which shills for the food industry, has issued a Request for Quotes for a firm […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Cooke Aquaculture loan forgiven, Cooke Industrial Research Chair in Sustainable Aquaculture, Dalhousie University, house fire Shubenacadie East, Jane Taber, Jon Grant, Keith Colwell

NDP re-introduces same tire-burning ban bill introduced — and passed — by the Liberals in 2008

October 4, 2017 By Jennifer Henderson

Talk about déjà vu. NDP Environment critic Lenore Zann has resurrected a bill that Liberal MLA Keith Colwell introduced 10 years ago to ban tire-burning in Nova Scotia. All three political parties passed it in 2008 but the law was never proclaimed. Don’t expect the Liberals to pass a carbon copy of their previous bill...

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Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: burning tires, Gary Burrill, Iain Rankin, Jacquelyn Shaw, Jennifer Henderson, Keith Colwell, LaFarge Canada, Lenore Zann, Lydia Sorflaten, Mark Gibson

The Wrongful Conviction of Glen Assoun

In 1995, Brenda Way was brutally murdered behind a Dartmouth apartment building. In 1999, Glen Assoun was found guilty of the murder. He served 17 years in prison, but steadfastly maintained his innocence. In 2019, Glen Assoun was fully exonerated.

Click here to read the Halifax Examiner's extensive reporting on the case.

DEAD WRONG

A botched police investigation and a police coverup shed light on the murders of dozens of women in Nova Scotia.

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