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    N.S. wine industry representatives suggest changes coming to controversial program

    Those for and against a controversial new wine support program left an almost two-hour meeting with Premier Tim Houston on Monday night happy to have discussed the issue in person and confident the two sides can live with possible changes. "The meeting was good," said Karl Coutinho, chair of the board at Wine Growers of Nova Scotia, a group that represents family-run wineries in the province."It was our first chance, from the farm wineries' perspective, to sit down with the premier and his team

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    Spring kicks off with heavy snow in Alberta, with 30 cm possible this week

    After days of record warmth, Alberta will see quite the reversal of fortunes this week, culminating in a multi-day snowfall event and a drastic temperature plunge

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    Feds plans to audit FSIN spending after allegations of misused public funds

    Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) is set to conduct a forensic audit of the funding it has given the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations (FSIN) over a nearly five-year span and how it has been spent.The FSIN represents 74 First Nations in Saskatchewan.CBC News obtained a letter sent by ISC to the FSIN executive, dated March 15. In it, ISC says it intends to review how the FSIN spent money provided by the ISC in several funding agreements from April 1, 2019, to the present and that the date

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    The province is paying $22 million for electricity from Kruger — and it has been for 6 weeks

    A $22-million deal between the provincial government and paper giant Kruger has been in effect since Feb. 1, though the first scant details of it were not released until last Friday afternoon as the provincial government headed into the St. Patrick's Day long weekend.The province — through Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro — had been paying for electricity from Kruger's hydroelectric dam at Deer Lake for six weeks by the time Kruger sent a news release saying a deal had been reached between the tw

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    Blinken underscores Washington’s “ironclad commitment” to its alliance with the Philippines

    U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken underscores Washington’s “ironclad commitment” to its alliance with the Philippines, as clashes between Chinese and Filipino forces in the disputed South China Sea turn more hostile.

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  • SportsThe Weather Network

    Earliest vernal equinox in 128 years kicks off Spring 2024

    Regardless of what your favourite prognosticator said on February 2nd, spring is definitely arriving early this year.

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    Property owners, researcher critical of N.S. approach to coastal protection

    Susan Morrison has watched dynamic changes to the coastline near her property in Cherry Hill, N.S., during the almost 30 years she's lived in the south shore community.She recalls grass-filled sand dunes all the way down the beach when she first moved to the area, and a tree about 100 feet back into the dunes. That grass is long gone and the tree is now dead on the beach, Morrison said in a recent interview."And it's not because it got washed away; the sand kept disappearing, disappearing, and y

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