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Environment Canada watching Halifax harbour diesel spill
Toronto :: Canada | 14 days ago
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Environment Canada has crews monitoring the fuel spill clean-up. (CBC) The Royal Canadian Navy is on its second day of cleaning up what it's calling a significant amount of diesel fuel in the Halifax harbour...The department said it collected samples
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Rare Florida owl spotted on island in Halifax harbour
Halifax :: Canada | 3 months ago
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Birders say a small owl, native to Florida, has been discovered in Nova Scotia for the first time. The rare burrowing owl is listed as a species of special concern in Florida. A shot of the bird with its piercing yellow eyes and spotted plumage
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Stuck on a decrepit boat in Halifax, Central American tugboat crew desperate to go home
Halifax :: Canada | 4 months ago
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Video Transport Canada won't let it leave Halifax because of poor living conditions and concerns about pollution, according to a department spokesperson. The ship's Florida-based owner, Gerard Antoine, says he is trying to get the money together to
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Lights out on Canada's lighthouses looming
Toronto :: Canada | 1 year ago
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Unfortunately, that might be the fate for the iconic structure at the entrance to Halifax Harbour if Canadians don't respond to a call to save the country's lighthouses...As a result, local groups and communities are now under pressure to assume the
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Inside Trinity, the secretive Halifax facility where an alleged spy last worked
Halifax :: VA :: USA | over 1 year ago
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As you approach the Royal Canadian Navy's secretive Trinity intelligence centre near the Halifax Harbour, at least nine surveillance cameras track your movement. Protected behind two chain-link fences, both topped with barbed wire, the main Trinity
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HMCS Charlottetown leaves Halifax for Mediterranean
Halifax :: Canada | over 1 year ago
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Charlottetown as they sails out of Halifax, Nova Scotia, in this file photo, March 2, 2011. Charlottetown this morning to bid farewell to sailors bound for the Mediterranean Sea. About 250 sailors left the Halifax Harbour to embark upon an six-month
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Life after vision loss: CNIB still changing lives 94 years after Halifax Explosion
Halifax :: Canada | over 1 year ago
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On December 6, 1917, one of the most catastrophic events in Canadian history struck the shores of Nova Scotia...When the SS Mont Blanc accidentally collided with the SS Imo in Halifax Harbour on that fateful December morning, hundreds gathered along
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Mysterious disappearance at Nova Scotia church sets off alarm bells
West Bay :: Cayman Islands | over 1 year ago
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This bell from West Bay, N.S., went missing sometime after Sept. 11. A church bell's mysterious disappearance in rural Nova Scotia and the equally mysterious appearance of another in a Halifax church has prompted a police investigation. In early
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Mystery surrounds unmarked graves at historic navy cemetery in Halifax
Halifax :: Canada | almost 2 years ago
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They are scattered throughout a small military cemetery in Halifax dozens of weathered headstones dating back more than a century, bearing the names of seamen and civilians associated with the Royal Navy. The grave markers were meant to stand as
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Canada: Halifax harbour. From sewer to fishing site
Last month, the $333-million Harbour Solutions project was declared successfully completed. The regional council was told that the water in the inner, middle and outer harbour is so clean that it meets federal guidelines for shellfish harvesting.
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