Metro Halifax: New faces, close races (and some that weren’t so close)

Liberals take a beating in metro-area ridings

Winners and losers in the Halifax region during Tuesday's general election included high-profile candidates and fringe party hopefuls. And the Progressive Conservatives rebounded somewhat from their dismal showing (0 out of 20) in metro in the last

Winners and losers in the Halifax region during Tuesday's general election included high-profile candidates and fringe party hopefuls. 0. a day ago by: Michael Lightstone. tk053017election7. An elated NDP Leader Gary Burrill gives a thumbs up to his

Nova Scotia NDP leader Gary Burrill participates in a leaders' round table at Saint Mary's University in Halifax on Thursday, May 25, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan. ©. HALIFAX - Nova Scotia NDP Leader Gary Burrill has won a seat in the

Liberals take a beating in metro-area ridings

Nova Scotia election: NDP leader Gary Burrill unseats Liberal Joachim Stroink in Halifax Chebucto

Nova Scotia NDP leader Gary Burrill, celebrates with supporters after winning his seat following the Nova Scotia provincial election in Halifax, N.S. on Tuesday, May 30, 2017. By: Yvette d'Entremont Metro Published on Tue May 30 2017 08:41:00

Metro Halifax: New faces, close races (and some that weren't so close)

It was a simple way for Fatuma Seid to show gratitude to the one party that proved it was looking out for her. She simply showed up at the NDP victory party with her nine-year-old daughter Nadia Abdulaziz. That was enough, Seid said. Just to be inside … . Both have served one one term as MLA, with Burrill serving as MLA in Colchester-Musquodoboit Valley in 2009 before he was unseated by PC MLA Larry Harrison. Burrill became leader of the NDP last year without a seat in the election and opted against

First-time MLAs paid the price for Halifax-area voters' displeasure with the ruling Liberals. One-time Liberal MLAs Joyce Treen, Joachim Stroink, Stephen Gough and Joanne Bernard, who was also minister of community service in McNeil's cabinet, were all

Liberals take a beating in metro-area ridings

NDP Leader Gary Burrill won his seat, a Liberal cabinet minister went down to defeat in Dartmouth and the Tories made a push in several Halifax-area ridings in Tuesday's provincial election. Community Services Minister Joanne Bernard trailed New. P'Lovers stores have become a familiar landmark in Nova Scotia. The first store was opened in Halifax in 1992 and the name — a play on 'Planet Lovers' and originally derived from Piping Plovers (the small Nova Scotia shore birds which were declared an