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TechPortJobs.ca now live |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Thursday, December 28, 2006
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The new ITANS/NSBI job listing website now appears to have gone live.
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Blackberry sales up 49 per cent for RIM |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Friday, December 22, 2006
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BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. posted preliminary third-quarter results Thursday and said that net profits hit US$176 million as sales climbed 49 per cent.
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New England investors jump into Knowledge House fray |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Thursday, December 21, 2006
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A group of more than 20 Knowledge House Inc. shareholders from New England are blaming National Bank Financial Ltd. for causing the former e-learning company’s shares to plummet in value in 2001 so they became virtually worthless.
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The best and brightest |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
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Nominations have been released for the seventh annual "Metro Halifax Business Awards", as presented by the Halifax Chamber of Commerce, and four members of the IT industry have been recognized with a nomination.
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RIM gets reprieve from securities regulator, may continue trading |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
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Research In Motion Ltd. won a delay from Ontario securities regulators Monday, allowing it to continue trading on the Toronto stock market while insiders are held to a cease-trade order as the Blackberry maker continues to work on its second-quarter financial report and stock-option records.
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NSBI focused on IT sector in 2006 |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
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Since Nova Scotia Business Inc. was created as the arm’s-length development arm of the provincial government in 2001, it has authorized 44 payroll rebates, assisted in creating up to 13,000 jobs and participated in more than 50 trade missions, which it says have contributed more than $100 million in sales.
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Fibre network rep speaks at Shiretown council session |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
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Kentville town council hasn’t committed to becoming a partner in the Valley Community Fibre Network (VCFN) but it received a sales pitch of sorts at the December session. Representatives of the VCFN made a presentation to council about the proposed fibre optic cable network on Wednesday, December 13.
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Wi-Fi for the road from SolutionInc |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
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Chances are, you'll never see the best work SolutionInc Ltd. of Halifax does. That's because the company does its utmost to keep it invisible. People there work behind the scenes to make hotel guests' Web experience a seamless one.
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nCipher hit by Abridean slowdown |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
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LONDON (SHARECAST) - Encryption software specialist nCipher has run into problems with its recent acquisition Abridean, which is performing well below its expectations.
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Jacques Whitford and Bell Aliant: The details |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Monday, December 18, 2006
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In an effort to centralize the ICT aspects of their sprawling operations, Halifax-based environmental and geotechnical engineering firm Jacques Whitford has inked a $40-million outsourcing deal with ICT provider Bell Aliant.
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Jacques Whitford positions for growth and selects Bell Aliant |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Friday, December 15, 2006
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HALIFAX, NS — One of Canada’s most innovative environmental and geotechnical engineering firms has partnered with Atlantic Canada’s largest information and communications technology (ICT) provider for outsourced support of its entire ICT environment. Today, Bell Aliant (TSX: BA.UN) and Jacques Whitford jointly announced they have signed an agreement to outsource the operation of Jacques Whitford’s IT infrastructure and implement a fully managed Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephony environment. The contract, which will be carried out in part through Aliant and xwave, the IT Division of Bell Aliant, has a seven-year term and is valued at more than $40 million.
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Web systems redirect emergency calls |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Thursday, December 14, 2006
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Buying a discount Internet telephone package could turn out to be bad for your health.
The province’s Emergency Management Office warned Tuesday that links to the emergency 911 system are delayed with Internet telephones, which are increasingly popular in Nova Scotia.
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SolutionInc and Quadriga Celebrate Joint Success |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
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Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada – Dec 11th, 2006 – SolutionInc Limited (TSX - VEN:STL) and Quadriga Worldwide announced today that they have completed more than 100 installs together in hotels across Europe and the Middle East. This milestone is a result of the European hotel market’s growing requirement for high speed Internet access, combined with their demand for an integrated entertainment and Internet services solution.
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Come home, job ad urges |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Friday, December 08, 2006
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Earlier this week, the J.D. Irving-owned recruiting website CareerBeacon.com put a 37-page colour publication into Alberta newspapers, encouraging expatriate Atlantic Canadians to take advantage of the labour shortage back home [Editor’s note: Please see Daily Business Buzz’ NewsMakers section from Tuesday, December 5 – S.H.]. Entitled Come Home to a Career in Atlantic Canada, the insert pushes large construction projects across the region and the hot IT sector in Halifax.
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Rural areas awaiting high speed Internet |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Wednesday, December 06, 2006
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Chances are pretty good that John Robert will have difficulty reading this story on the Vanguard's website. The Robert's Island resident has tried in vain for several years to get improved Internet service in his area but, like many residents of rural Nova Scotia, does not have access to high speed broadband Internet. What he does have is access to a dial-up connection, of which Robert doesn't have a very high opinion. "Not only are we relegated to dial-up, but the quality of the dial-up is appalling," he said.
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Province to test broadband infrastructure |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
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The province is about to test a plan to use publicly-owned communication towers to provide broadband Internet service to all rural communities by 2009. And, during a visit to Cape Breton on Friday, Premier Rodney MacDonald said a company in industrial Cape Breton will be awarded the lucrative contract. On the Government Procurement website, five vendors listed proposals to provide broadband services to rural Nova Scotia but only Seaside Communications is located on the island. The other companies are Aliant, Barrett Xplore Inc., TDC Broadband and TNC Wireless.
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Internet key to Nova Scotia’s new tourism strategy |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
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The vast resources of the Internet will be a key to the province’s new tourism plan which will be unveiled Monday in Halifax. “E-commerce, we will see a lot more of that,” said Cape Breton’s Eleanor Anderson, director of the Nova Scotia Vision Team, an industry group that has been working with the province in developing tourism initiatives. “There is a heavy co-operative component, lots of opportunity for industry to join, whether it’s sales efforts in marketplaces in Ontario, the United States, Calgary or elsewhere.”
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Cyberplex Announces Acquisition of Incentaclick Media Group |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
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TORONTO, Dec. 1 /CNW/ - Cyberplex Inc. (TSX: CX), a North American
technology and web solutions firm, is pleased to announce the acquisition of
Incentaclick Media Group Inc. ("Incentaclick"), a firm specializing in on-line
advertising and customer acquisition.
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SolutionInc Limited Announces Highest Quarterly Revenue |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Friday, December 01, 2006
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Halifax, NS, November 29, 2006: SolutionInc Technologies Limited (TSX-VEN: STL), a leader in Internet management, provisioning, and billing, released today its unaudited consolidated interim results for the second quarter ended September 30, 2006. The Company recorded its highest quarterly revenue to date of $848,884, up 63% over $520,693 for the second quarter ended September 30, 2005, and its first quarter of positive EBITDA* of $5,420, up 101% over an EBITDA* loss for the three months ended September 30, 2005.
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Stop-trading order issued for Helical |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Friday, December 01, 2006
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Executives in a Halifax company that specializes in the development of software to sort through large amounts of data have been ordered not to buy or sell shares in their company for the next 15 days.
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Youth Will Stay and Grow in New Nova Scotia |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Thursday, November 30, 2006
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Nova Scotians can look forward to broadband Internet service throughout the province by 2010, as well as other steps to make Nova Scotia a leader in information technology, Premier Rodney MacDonald said in his first State of the Province address.
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Tories mum on cost of Internet vow |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Thursday, November 30, 2006
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All parts of Nova Scotia will have access to high-speed Internet access by 2010, Premier Rodney MacDonald said Wednesday.
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IT opportunities abound |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Friday, November 17, 2006
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Atlantic firms benefit from sector’s strong talent pool, executives say
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Put technology needs on the back burner, pay the price |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Friday, November 17, 2006
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NOVA SCOTIA businesses must become more competitive, more productive, and more innovative to survive in today’s business world. Global competition is no longer reserved for Nova Scotia’s larger, internationally focused companies.
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N.S. giving $1.48m in rebates to firm in call centre takeover |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Friday, November 17, 2006
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Internet giant CSC Corporate Domains Canada has acquired part of Register.com’s call centre business in Yarmouth County and is getting its own provincial tax incentive worth up to $1.48 million to set up shop near Yarmouth.
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Firm completes P.E.I. web link |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Thursday, November 16, 2006
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Internetworking Atlantic Inc. of Halifax announced Wednesday that it has completed construction of a fibre optic telecom system connecting research sites in Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia.
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Aliant launches #TAXI |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Thursday, November 16, 2006
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Innovative, convenient wireless service now available in Atlantic Canada
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Liverpool’s new call centre to employ 200 |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
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The new call centre company is here and employee training is in full swing. An official announcement was made November 6 that On-Line Support Inc. will employ approximately 200 people by the end of February.
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Restructuring training company Nexient Learning reports $4.1m loss |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Thursday, November 09, 2006
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SYDNEY (CP) — Restructuring corporate training firm Nexient Learning Inc., formerly known as CrossOff Inc., reported Wednesday a wider third-quarter loss of $4.1 million and said it has restated first-quarter earnings reducing net income by $793,000 to record a loss of $769,295.
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Cease-trade order extended for Research in Motion |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
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TORONTO — An Ontario Securities Commission panel extended a management cease-trade order for insiders of Research In Motion Ltd. on Tuesday and ordered the company to return before the regulator if its financial filings aren’t current by Dec. 18.
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Software like a library for your laptop |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
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Chad Henderson lugs about 80 textbooks to class every day. But since they’re stored in his laptop, the first-year Dalhousie University dentistry student isn’t too weighed down.
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NSBI reports record year |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
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Nova Scotia Business Inc. (NSBI)continued to draw upon these concepts in 2005-06. The province's business development agency released its fourth annual report today, Oct. 31.
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RIM bosses ordered to halt trading |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
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TORONTO — The Ontario Securities Commission has ordered officers and insiders of BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd., including co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis, to stop trading in the company’s stock after it missed financial reporting deadlines.
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More jobs coming on stream in Cape Breton |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Friday, October 27, 2006
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A major employer in Glace Bay is getting bigger. Stream recently celebrated its fifth anniversary in Glace Bay with an open house and announcements, including the hiring of 500 to 600 more people.
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SolutionInc Limited and TeleBarbados Announce Multi-Year Strategic Partnership |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
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Halifax, NS and Barbados, WI; October 24, 2006 – SolutionInc Limited announced today that it has formed a strategic partnership with Internet service provider TeleBarbados Inc. to provide gateway Internet software for provisioning high speed Internet service in hotels and commercial properties throughout Barbados and St. Lucia.
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Information technology gets up to speed in Nova Scotia |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Thursday, October 19, 2006
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Nova Scotia’s thriving, but underexposed, IT sector got a huge moral boost last month when the Information Technology Association of Canada held its annual board meeting in Halifax. It was the first time the group of high profile national leaders in the sector had ventured outside of Ontario for one of its meetings.
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Florida company buys Halifax web business |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
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Website Pros, Inc. of Florida, which provides Internet marketing and other web-related services to small- and medium-sized businesses, has acquired most of the assets of Halifax’s Renovation Experts.com, an online marketplace for contractors and homeowners.
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Golden Gate Capital to buy Sierra Systems |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
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VANCOUVER (CP) - Sierra Systems Group Inc. (TSX:SSG) has signed a deal to be bought by a U.S. private-equity firm for $93.2 million in cash, the information-technology company said Monday.
Editor's Note: Sierra Systems retains a Halifax office.
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RIM delays Q2 results |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Sunday, October 15, 2006
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Research In Motion Ltd. warned Friday that it will miss the Oct. 17 filing of its second-quarter financial results with regulators because of an accounting investigation over stock options.
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The benefits of work |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Saturday, October 14, 2006
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Use of a ski chalet. Gym memberships. These are some of the extras offered by the Maritime’s top employers
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IWK launches bilingual website |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Friday, October 13, 2006
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Extensive information in both official languages about the Maritimes’ only children’s hospital is now just a mouse click away.
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RIM gets Bedford go-ahead |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
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Regional council paved the way Tuesday night for an Ontario company to build a $230-million technical support centre that will employ 1,200 people.
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Community meetings held on Internet |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
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TRURO — Meetings of the Coastal Communities Network have gone digital, with a video-conferencing session at community colleges around Nova Scotia.
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