Nova Scotia

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia's largest health board is reporting a privacy breach involving the health records of 120 patients over a six-year period. Capital Health spokesman John Gillis said Tuesday the records were inappropriately accessed by an ...  

Selwyn Resources announces additional drill results from its 2011 drill program on the southwest extension of the Main Zone at the ScoZinc project in Nova Scotia have confirmed lead and zinc mineralization. The ScoZinc Mine, a past producing zinc and lead ...  

HALIFAX - Labour Minister Marilyn More says she is concerned about the number of workplace deaths that have happened in Nova Scotia so far this year. There have been seven deaths in a little more than a month, which the government says is a cause for ...  

HALIFAX - The latest round of provincial funding cuts for schools will likely affect programs and services, the heads of two Nova Scotia school boards said Monday. Mary Jess MacDonald, chairwoman of the Strait Regional School Board, said a 2.1 per cent ...  

HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA--(Marketwire - Feb. 13, 2012) - A group of Halifax high school students calling themselves Engaged Youth for Environmental Sustainability, or EYES for short, are joining the 'Turn on the Taps and Ditch the Bottle' coalition. EYES is ...  

Some of Canada’s top restaurants – including several in Nova Scotia – are tabling sea bass farmed in Nova Scotia just as fast as the people at Sustainable Blue can produce it at their facility at Centre Burlington in Hants County. “It is produced ...  

Colleen Jones and Kim Kelly will join forces with skip Mary Anne Arsenault to form a powerful Nova Scotia team looking to qualify for the 2014 Sochi Olympics. From 1999 to 2004, the team skipped by Jones with Kelly as third, Arsenault as second and Nancy ...  

BROOKLYN, N.S. - A struggling Nova Scotia paper mill will shut down for at least three weeks starting next month. Resolute Forest Products (TSX:ABH) says it will temporarily cease operations at its Bowater Mersey mill in Brooklyn on March 11. The company ...  

The hospital backed off but said nurses must wear white lab coats at all times. MacIsaac said the suggestion that it’s a matter of identification can be easily addressed by either wearing a name tag, or the nurses introducing themselves to a patient.  

HALIFAX — The government of Nova Scotia rejected a $1.1-million loan application by a steel foundry because it is too risky, the province's economic development minister said Thursday. Percy Paris said loaning public money to Maritime Steel Foundry in ...  

Halifax celebrates Nova Scotia cuisine as it once again enters the culinary spotlight, playing host to an outstanding collection of events showcasing the best local creations from sea, land and vine. The Halifax Nova Scotia gastronomic celebrations kick ...  

Mulcair issued a statement today, saying Finance Minister Graham Steele, Culture Minister David Wilson and Justice Minister Ross Landry have thrown their support behind him. The Montreal MP is one of eight contenders for the leadership, which became vacant ...  

While it wasn’t quite the ale that soldiers were used to from back home, it seemed to keep them happy. In 2010, Halifax’s Garrison brewery decided to revive the style. Brewery president Brian Titus and head brewer Daniel Girard didn’t have far to ...  

MONTREAL — Students from design schools in Quebec, Ontario and Nova Scotia took home top honours at Canada’s Breakthrough Designers event to close out Montreal Fashion Week. Designers from Montreal’s LaSalle College swept the top three prizes in the ...  

OTTAWA—Conservative Sen. Fred Dickson, a respected Nova Scotia lawyer and expert on offshore resources, has died. He was 74. Dickson advised federal and provincial governments on numerous projects, including Nova Scotia’s oil and gas agreements with ...