Word: novas
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Corporate sponsors, including the Bank of Nova Scotia and McDonald's, have continued to maintain their support for the program in the wake of Sword's resignation, Silk said...
...address is in the Scotia Plaza, headquarters of the Bank of Nova Scotia and the heart of Toronto's financial district. The father of one of Serve Canada's co-founders, Cynthia Godsoe '93, is president of the Bank of Nova Scotia...
...County, Florida) -- all were part of the same monster storm system that from March 12 to March 15 spread death and destruction from Cuba, where three died, to the Canadian Maritimes (four killed). Deaths totaled 238, and that did not include 48 sailors missing from vessels that sank off Nova Scotia and in the Gulf of Mexico. Worst tolls: 50 in Pennsylvania, and 44 in Florida, where winds made deadly projectiles out of rubble still lying on the ground from Hurricane Andrew in August. Helicopters and search parties on snowshoes were still looking for hikers and campers stranded in Southern...
Self-destruction is virtually a civic preoccupation at Davis Inlet: when Partridge, 38, a former policeman from Halifax, Nova Scotia, arrived two years ago, he found himself involved in suicide intervention at a rate of four cases a month. "Every adult in the community has contemplated suicide," he says. "Every second person has attempted it in one form or another." Nearly one-quarter of the population tried in the past year alone. Partridge also found that 95% of the adult population suffer from alcoholism, and estimates that of 360 children, more than 10% are "problem sniffers" of gasoline...
...continuing challenge to its competitiveness, especially as more highly skilled, high-paying jobs are likely to flee south to lower wage levels after ratification of the free-trade accord with Mexico. By the year 2000, said TIME panelist James McNiven, the dean of management at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the number of Canadians working in manufacturing jobs will have dropped from today's 20% of the work force to only 8%. Most other jobs will be in the services area, including such sophisticated sectors as environmental engineering and computer-information systems. Workers who do not measure...