Statistics based on the unofficial results from the 2024 general election in Nova Scotia show that voter turnout decreased by nearly 10% from the last election, which took place during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to Election NS’s post-election report from 2021, the total voter turnout was 422,712 out of 767,618 eligible voters—55.1%, a minor […]
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Houston leads PC Party to record-breaking victory in provincial election
The provincial election Tuesday night saw premier Tim Houston and the PC Party win a historic victory, netting them the most seats out of any political party in Nova Scotia’s history. The Progressive Conservative Party gained enough ground to form not just a majority but a supermajority, which requires at least two-thirds of the House […]
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The Wanderer Grounds podcast: Who’s in and who’s out this Halifax Wanderers offseason?
Halifax Wanderers head coach Patrice Gheisar is not, generally speaking, the type for drastic measures. “Never too high, never too low” has become akin to a mantra at the Canadian Premier League soccer club during his two years at the helm. It will be interesting, then, to see how Gheisar and the Wanderers’ front office […]
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Student Vote picks new Nova Scotia government
“Thanks for voting,” says Cohen Francis, acknowledging a Grade 4 student who successfully folded their ballot as they’d been shown and tipped it into the voting box. Francis is in Grade 9. On Monday, November 25, his class at the Halifax Independent School led the provincial edition of the Student Vote program for their school. […]
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How you can vote on election day in Nova Scotia
Provincial election day is finally upon us. Although some are still feeling the fatigue of the recent municipal election and from watching the American election, getting out to vote is still a right worth exercising. With community and advanced polling stations closed as of Saturday, Nov 23, early voting is limited to returning offices […]
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What have we heard about education and child care this election campaign?
An election no one wanted, called late last month, will bear fruit Nov 26. As reported by the CBC, a recent telephone poll of 800 Nova Scotians from Narrative Research suggests that premier Tim Houston’s Progressive Conservatives have maintained a significant lead throughout the campaign. However, nearly a quarter of those polled are still in […]
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An incumbent politician speaks about intimate partner violence
As a woman, mother and health critic for the NSNDP, I am writing in response to Liz LeClair’s important article about making intimate partner violence (IPV) a larger issue in this current provincial election. As a caucus of mostly women and gender-diverse people, we in the NDP have been pushing to declare IPV an epidemic […]
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Birth control screwup and a weird pizza analogy: Takeaways from the second leaders debate
Premier Tim Houston had one message for Nova Scotian voters during CTV Atlantic’s provincial leaders roundtable Thursday night: the plan is working. Criticisms from his fellow party leaders would suggest otherwise. The roundtable itself was messy. While Houston and Liberal leader Zach Churchill fired shots at each other throughout the evening, it was hard […]
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Premier’s communications director defended Nazi symbols at Freedom Convoy protests
Premier Tim Houston’s communications director is in hot water after an op-ed he wrote last year, defending Nazi symbols at the Freedom Convoy protests, resurfaced. Stephen Moore, who acts as the director of communications for the Office of the Premier and previously held the role during Liberal premier Stephen McNeil’s tenure, wrote an opinion […]
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Last chance to catch two expansive shows on hip hop at MSVU Art Gallery
Two levels; two deep-dive exhibitions; one price: free. Since Sep 21, the Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery has brought together two shows to explore the art of hip hop—the graffiti, the music, the people, the movement—and how it lends itself to groundbreaking forms of archival work and scholarship that honours hip hop’s ongoing 51-plus-year […]
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Breaking the silence on a Nova Scotia epidemic
Four years ago, the province of Nova Scotia was the site of the largest mass casualty event in Canada’s history. This event was sparked by intimate partner violence, IPV, and ended in the killing of 22 innocent Nova Scotians—including an unborn child. Families and communities were shattered by this event. The then-leader of the opposition, […]
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HRM council sets committee rosters
During Tuesday’s meeting of council, outside of City Hall the winds were so strong that Barrington’s streetlamps were being vigorously buffeted outside the windows of Halifax Hall. They moshed with the wind for the entirety of council’s hours-long in-camera debate about a motion. The motion—number 17.2, about “INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS”—was moved up to 1 o’clock, so […]
