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News Source: Toronto Star
| 5 months ago
Voters in Nova Scotia made history yesterday, electing the first NDP premier in Atlantic Canada as they delivered a decisive majority win to a party offering a modest platform that promises to balance the books. NDP Leader Darrell Dexter, a lawyer...
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News Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
| 5 months ago
The political landscape of Cape Breton remained unchanged in the Nova Scotia election on Tuesday night. All candidates who sought re-election in the nine electoral districts in the region were successful in their bid to return to the provincial...
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News Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
| 5 months ago
Nova Scotia's legislative assembly will have a record number of female members when it reconvenes after voters elected a total of 12 women candidates in Tuesday's poll. The province's next premier, Darrell Dexter, will have nine female MLAs to choose...
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News Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
| 5 months ago
The orange tide that swept across Nova Scotia on Tuesday night brought two more New Democratic MLAs to the Annapolis Valley region. The New Democrats won three of six Annapolis seats while the Liberals held on to two.
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News Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
| 5 months ago
Voters in northeastern Nova Scotia joined the rest of the province in riding the orange wave by electing eight NDP candidates to the provincial legislature. The NDP sweep in the region marked a near complete switch from the Progressive Conservative...
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News Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
| 5 months ago
Former Tory cabinet minister Ernie Fage has lost his bid to be re-elected to the Nova Scotia legislature. New Democratic Party candidate Brian Skabar was declared the victor for the electoral district of Cumberland North, unseating Fage who held the...
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News Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
| 5 months ago
The NDP won all five districts in Nova Scotia's South Shore...Margaret's turfed out Tory Judy Streatch, a cabinet minister, on Tuesday and replaced her with New Democrat Denise Peterson-Rafuse. In Lunenburg West, another cabinet minister, Carolyn...
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News Source: Macleans
| 5 months ago
Nova Scotia's premier-designate has been described as avuncular and rumpled, the kind of guy you'd enjoy having over for dinner because he'd be good company. It's the kind of image that has helped Darrell Dexter become the trusted face of the NDP in...
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News Source: Uinta County News
| 5 months ago
ET Jeff Wigle, CTV.ca News The son of a sheet metal worker, Darrell Dexter has come a long way from his modest upbringing in Halifax's working class north end to the pinnacle of power in the province, the first NDP premier of Nova Scotia.
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News Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
| 5 months ago
The Nova Scotia Liberals are leading in 11 seats in the provincial election, up from nine in 2006, which was the party's worst showing. With roughly 80 per cent of the ballots counted, CBC News projects Liberal Leader Stephen McNeil will handily win...