Nova Scotia

John McCain presses President Obama on Afghanistan

By Associated Press Saturday, November 21, 2009 - Updated 4m ago HALIFAX, Nova Scotia - U.S. Sen. John McCain leaned on the man who beat him last year to act on Afghanistan, predicting success in the war effort yesterday if...

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McCain says he enjoyed Palin book

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press Writer HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) - U.S. Sen. John McCain says he enjoyed reading Sarah Palin's new memoir and says the tension between his campaign aides and hers is no big deal. But McCain...

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Halifax's Joel Plaskett takes leading two trophies at Canadian Folk Music Awards

OTTAWA - Halifax singer/songwriter Joel Plaskett led a big night for East Coast musicians at the fifth annual Canadian Folk Music Awards on Saturday. Plaskett was the only multiple award winner at ...

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The large Hadron Collider experiment has been re-started after 14 months.

Engineers have now made two stable proton beams circulate in opposite directions around the machine. If all continues to go well, the team might even try to increase the dollar ten billion Collider's energy to record-breaking...

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Pentagon: US to look at own role in Afghan graft

By Associated Press Friday, November 20, 2009 - Added 3m ago HALIFAX, Nova Scotia — The United States will do its part to reduce corruption in Afghanistan by examining its own contracts and projects, even as it is demanding the...

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Halifax's DIME closes deal to roll lifestyle screen network in Atlantic Canada chain drug

Toronto, Montreal and the Kitchener-Waterloo region (home to BlackBerries) have a lopsided amount of the activity going on in the digital signage sector, but there's absolutely stuff shaking elsewhere. If you subscribe to...

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Minister attending defence meeting in Canada (Newstalk ZB)

Newstalk ZB November 21, 2009, 5:31 am Defence Minister Wayne Mapp is heading to Canada to attend a formal bilateral defence meeting and to discuss research, science and technology issues. Dr Mapp will attend the first Halifax...

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Secretary Gates Remarks at the Halifax International Security Forum, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

SEC. GATES: Thank you, Peter. A starting point for this discussion is the long-standing relationship between the United States and Canada, the subject of my meeting this afternoon with Minister MacKay. The formal defense ties...

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Torch’s Nova Scotia tour continues past historic Halifax Citadel

By Geoff Davies, Canwest News ServiceNovember 20, 2009 9:02 AM Photograph by: Nathalie Alonso, AFP/Getty Images HALIFAX -- When Meg Fraser wrapped her red-mitt-covered hands around the Olympic torch in Halifax on Friday, she...

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EnCana Selects Expro for Subsea Services at Deep Panuke

Rowan Gorilla III (Click to Enlarge) Expro has been awarded a surface testing and subsea landing string service contract from EnCana Corporation for work offshore Halifax, Nova Scotia. The six-month contract will provide...

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