HALIFAX –  Inverness MLA Allan MacMaster has confirmed that the Minacs call centre in Port Hawkesbury has signed a contract with one of Canada's largest banks, ensuring the employer will stay in the community and bring recently laid-off employees back to work.
 

HALIFAX - Below is a statement read in the Nova Scotia Legislature today from Progressive Conservative Finance Critic, Allan MacMaster, on the 2010-2011 Budget:

HALIFAX –  Cumberland South MLA Murray Scott says he is pleased Finance Minister Graham Steele is willing to come to Cumberland County and discuss possible solutions to the lure of cross-border shopping, and the loss of major sales and tax revenue to New Brunswick.
 

HALIFAX – Wednesday, Premier Darrell Dexter announced $200,000 to promote Yarmouth and Acadian Shores as a tourism destination – but failed to provide a few key details to municipal leaders that met with him.

HALIFAX - Deputy Premier and the only Cabinet Minister hailing from Cape Breton Island, Frank Corbett, refused to answer a question yesterday in the Legislature concerning the future of Holy Angels High School.

HALIFAX – Cumberland South MLA Murray Scott is encouraging area residents to have their say in a review of Nova Scotia's Deer Management Zones.
 

HALIFAX – Cumberland South MLA Murray Scott says he is satisfied with Natural Resource Minister John MacDonell's commitment to review his department's policy on camp and cottage leases in cases where structures sit on newly acquired provincial land in Cumberland County.
 

YARMOUTH – Premier Darrell Dexter came to Yarmouth County today with $200,000 to promote Yarmouth and Acadian Shores as a tourism destination.

HALIFAX – It has been one week since the agreement ended between the operators of the Cape Breton and Central Nova Scotia Railway and the Province and there has still been no movement on the issue.

Yesterday, Premier Darrell Dexter broke three promises he made to the people of Nova Scotia during last year’s election campaign.

He promised to balance the budget; he promised he would not raise taxes; he promised to maintain programs.

HALIFAX – The NDP government has voted down a resolution asking for the continued funding of the Boots on the Street campaign, a program focused on reducing violent street crime through increased community policing and specialized drug units.

HALIFAX – Cumberland South MLA Murray Scott says the NDP government has once again let Cumberland County down by voting against a resolution asking Premier Dexter to convene a committee on solutions to cross-border shopping.
 

HALIFAX –  PC Finance Critic Allan MacMaster wants to know how NDP Party President Peggy Mahon gained access to details of today's provincial budget that were leaked to party members in an email circulated yesterday.

HALIFAX – Cumberland South MLA Murray Scott says he will continue to apply pressure to the NDP government over its decision to move the Cumberland Correctional Facility to a community closer to the Justice Minister's constituency of Pictou Centre.
 

HALIFAX – The Budget introduced today by the NDP government will force Nova Scotians to live with higher taxes, something Progressive Conservative Leader Karen Casey says was not necessary.