#NovaScotia

As of today, Nov. 14, Nova Scotia has 21 active cases of COVID-19. Six new cases are being reported today. The new cases are in the Central Zone. All cases
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Next month #NovaScotia will have a new premier. Since housing is a provincial responsibility 40 organizations & people wrote the Liberal leadership candidates to get their views on key points
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On Heritage Day in NS, amid panic about changing street names, statues, etc., I'd like everyone in #halifax to reflect on what they learned about the past by driving on
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The COVID briefing is scheduled to begin at 3pm. it is being livestreamed here: https://novascotia.ca/stayinformed/webcast/ We're about to start. McNeil: we are very concerned about increasing numbers... McNeil: one travel
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The Black Loyalists founded settlements throughout Nova Scotia. The largest was at Birchtown, near Shelburne, with an initial population of about 1500. Birchtown today is the home of the Black
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Last week in #HIST2F90 the Atlantic World, we were following suggestions from Marisa Fuentes trying to use meagre sources to recreate slave lives as best we could – including this
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As we move into the vaccine stages of the #COVID19 pandemic, it is important that we combat #vaccine hesitancy and #misinformation and continue to vigilantly follow public health guidelines. A
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1917 - Fully embroiled in the First World War #Halifax was quickly evolving into a world class port and major base of naval operations. #HalifaxExplosion December 6, 1917, Railway Dispatcher
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For a lot of us, last night's news of B117 in NL felt like a punch in the gut.This morning I want to focus on what we *can do* to
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Look, I'm not saying Don Darling has it easy. Municipalities in NB are not well funded. But approach and principles are what makes a politician progressive. Exhibit A: on Irving
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We were told early to "stay the blazes home", wear masks and limit contact. We did that. Excellent contact tracing and quick responses to problems kept us from a runaway
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Hi! I've been meaning to do this for a while. A thread about 19th-century Nova Scotian newspapers and what @smallhistory is about. I'm a historian and this account grew out
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On Friday, I promised a thread in commemoration of today being the 103rd anniversary of the Halifax Explosion.https://twitter.com/jacremes/status/1334922889850740736 If you're Canadian, you almost certainly know of the Halifax Explosion
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I've been thinking about this for a little while.And how fundamentally incorrect the premier is. So let's do a quick thread looking at every province in Canada when it comes
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Pilot killed during F-16 jet crash identifiedhttps://www.channel3000.com/pilot-killed-during-f-16-jet-crash-identified/ https://twitter.com/carloss39346617/status/1337511347349827587?s=21 F16 crash Remember the DOD just defunded CIA counter
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1/ Statues are once again very much in public mind.I will propose here a set of #publichistory resources that can help us negotiate the difficult ground of memory, commemoration, history,
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