Economic Security in Nova Scotia

The report uses an aggregate index, based on security from the economic risks imposed by four key factors – unemployment, illness, old age, and single parenthood – to examine trends in economic security in Nova Scotia from 1981 to 2007. It concludes that economic security in Nova Scotia decreased during the 1981-2007 period.Economic security, Composite index, Economic well-being, Wellbeing, Indicators

Provincial Entitlement to Gas Trunk Line Ownership - Enforceability and Constitutionality

The author discusses the interpretation of section 40 of the Nova Scotia Accord Act (Canada) and the Nova Scotia Accord Act (Nova Scotia). The section provides that the Government of Nova Scotia be given a reasonable opportunity to acquire on a commercial basis up to a fifty percent ownership in the Nova Scotia trunkine in certain circumstances. He points out that even though the dispute between the Federal and Provincial governments regarding the ownership of the offshore appears to be on hold, the issue is relevant to the application of section 40

Toward Restructuring the Nova Scotia Fishing Fleets as a Result of the Establishment of Canada\u27s 200-Mile Fishery Zone

The first step in redeveloping the Nova Scotia fishery is the restructuring and rebuilding of the various Nova Scotia commercial fishing fleets. In this paper, the evolution of the Nova Scotia fishery and fleets is outlined as background for discussion of concerns, issues, and conflicts of the various participants involved in determining the future structureand composition of the Nova Scotia fleet mix. It is concluded that whatsoever the structure and composition of the fleet, there remains the need to protect a critical balance among the various sectors of the Nova Scotia fishery

Commonwealth Construction Company Limited v United Association of Journeymen & Apprentices of the Plumbing & Pipefitting Industry of the United States and Canada

A COMPLAINT having been made to the Labour Relations Board (Nova Scotia) on March 28, 1973, pursuant to Section 49 of the Trade Union Act of Nova Scotia by Commonwealth Construction Company Limited, Calgary, Alberta, that on the twenty-sixth, twenty-seventh, and twenty-eighth days of March, 1973, a work stoppage occurred at the construction site of the Nova Scotia Power Commission\u27s thermal plant expansion, Unit No. 2, Point Tupper, Richmond County, Nova Scotia, by cessation of work in violation of a collective agreement that is now in force between the Nova Scotia Power Commission on behalf of its subcontractors including the Complainant, and the Cape Breton Island Building and Construction Trades Council of which the United Association of Journeymen & Apprentices of the Plumbing & Pipefitting Industry of the United States and Canada, Local 682, is a member

McKay v Retail, Wholesale & Department Store Union, Local 1015

APPLICATION having been made to the Labour Relations Board (Nova Scotia) on June 2, 1977, pursuant to Section 27 of the Trade Union Act of Nova Scotia, for Revocation of L.R.B. No. 935, dated June 14, 1965, which certified the Retail, Wholesale & Department Store Union, Local 1015, AFL, CIO, as Bargaining Agent for certain employees of John Hunter Limited (Red & White Foodmaster), Springhill, Nova Scotia, the predecessor of the Intervener employer

United Steelworkers of America v Trenton Works Division

A COMPLAINT having been made to the Labour Relations Board (Nova Scotia) on February 20, 1978 pursuant to Section 49 of the Trade Union Act of Nova Scotia by the United Steelworkers of America, Local 1231, on behalf of a number of its members, requesting an Order that the Respondents cease and desist from committing, causing and authorizing a work stoppage and lockout of the individual complainants at the Respondent\u27s place of business in Trenton, Nova Scotia

The Role of Strategic Environmental Assessments in Improving the Governance of Emerging New Industries: A Case Study of Wind Developments in Nova Scotia

This article explores the potential for strategic environmental assessments to enhance project decisions in the wind energy sector in Nova Scotia. It does so by taking a retrospective look at wind energy project decisions in Nova Scotia in the past 15 years, decisions that have been made in the absence of a strategic environmental assessment. The study considers both individual project approvals and two contrasting municipal responses to the emergence of the industry. The aim of the retrospective is to identify the key challenges this new industry has faced in establishing itself in Nova Scotia. The article then considers, based on SEA literature and experience elsewhere, to what extent the challenges identified could have been avoided or reduced through the implementation of a strategic environmental assessment in the early stages of the emergence of this industry in Nova Scotia. The article concludes with some lessons for the design and implementation of strategic environmental assessments in light of the findings from the Nova Scotia case studies

The Tradition of Academic Costume at Acadia University

Introduction: In the history of post-secondary education in Canada, the creation of Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, might appear to be part of the pattern of denominational colleges in Nova Scotia. More accurately, however, Acadia helped to establish that pattern. In 1838, despite the 1818 founding of Dalhousie University in Halifax, the University of King’s College (est. 1789) in Windsor was the only chartered institution of higher learning that was active in Nova Scotia

Big and Little Feet Provincial Profiles: Nova Scotia

This communiqué provides a summary of the production- and consumption-based greenhouse gas emissions accounts for Nova Scotia, as well as their associated trade flows. It is part of a series of communiqués profiling the Canadian provinces and territories.1 In simplest terms, a production-based emissions account measures the quantity of greenhouse gas emissions produced in Nova Scotia. In contrast, a consumption-based emissions account measures the quantity of greenhouse gas emissions generated during the production process for final goods and services that are consumed in Nova Scotia through household purchases, investment by firms and government spending. Trade flows refer to the movement of emissions that are produced in Nova Scotia but which support consumption in a different province, territory or country (and vice versa). For example, emissions at the Port of Halifax that are associated with goods that are subsequently exported to Ontario for sale are recorded as a trade flow from Nova Scotia to Ontario. Moving in the opposite direction, emissions associated with the production of motor gasoline in New Brunswick that is exported to Nova Scotia for sale are recorded as a trade flow from New Brunswick to Nova Scotia. For further details on these results in a national context, the methodology for generating them and their policy implications, please see the companion papers to this communiqué series: (1) Fellows and Dobson (2017); and (2) Dobson and Fellows (2017). Additionally, the consumption emissions and trade flow data for each of the provinces and territories are available at: http://www.policyschool.ca/embodied-emissions-inputs-outputs-datatables-2004-2011/