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The Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO) is an intergovernmental organization with a mandate to provide scientific advice and management of fisheries in the northwestern part of the Atlantic Ocean. NAFO is headquartered in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper visited Sydney in December 2010 where he announced the Government of Canada would contribute $20 million to the Sydney project, on top of a $15 million contribution from the Government of Nova Scotia and $2 million from the municipality and Nova Scotia Power. [3] A contract was signed in April 2011 with Netherlands ...
The Premier of Nova Scotia is the President of the Executive Council. [7] Being the head of government in Nova Scotia, the premier exercises a substantial amount of power. [7] James B. Uniacke was the first Premier of Nova Scotia and led the government from 1848 to 1854. [2] The current Premier, Tim Houston, was sworn in as premier on August 31 ...
Pages in category "Nova Scotia government departments and agencies" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Hungry Point site now occupied by the CFRC was held as a reserve for defence purposes from 1895 until 1902, when an area of 1.37 ha on the Gunnamatta Bay side of the site was transferred from the Commonwealth for use by the NSW Government for the purpose of fish culture. The NSW Government was determined to appoint a fisheries expert of ...
The Halifax Treaties were a collection of 11 written documents produced between 1760 and 1761, which, amongst other agreements provided Native Canadians the right to fish. In 1999, the treaty was upheld by the Supreme Court in R v Marshall (No. 1) and again affirmed Indigenous fishers the right to fish in order to support a "moderate livelihood ...
Tom Ring, who was Canada's Procurement Minister when the National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy was proposed, [179] suggests that this request for funds contravened the terms of the original Umbrella Agreement between Irving and the federal government. This agreement, according to the terms written at the time, stipulated that any upgrades ...
After the Royal Navy withdrew from Halifax in 1905, the dockyards were handed over to the Government of Canada. Prior to World War I , the government began the Ocean Terminals project. A new railway was built through the city's South End to service the modern piers, the first of which opened in the early 1920s. [ 6 ]