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Cape Breton Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia
Cape Breton Regional Municipality (often referred to as simply "CBRM") is the Canadian province of Nova Scotia's second largest municipality and the economic heart of Cape Breton Island. As of 2021 the municipality has a population of 93,694. The municipality was created in 1995 through the amalgamation of eight municipalities located in Cape Breton County. The region is home to a significant concentration of government services, social enterprise, and private sector companies, including the Canadian Coast Guard College, Cape Breton University, NSCC Marconi campus, and New Dawn Enterprises. The rural areas of the municipality continue to host resource industries such as agriculture, fishing, mining, and forestry. CBRM is host to many cultural landmarks and institutions such as the historic Savoy Theatre, the Celtic Colours International Festival, the Cape Breton Centre for Craft, the Highland Arts Theatre, and Holy Angels Arts & Cultural centre, currently undergoing a $12-mil ...
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List Of Municipalities In Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia is the Population of Canada by province and territory, seventh-most populous provinces and territories of Canada, province in Canada with 969,383 residents as of the Canada 2021 Census, 2021 Census of Population, and the List of Canadian provinces and territories by area#Land area, second-smallest province in land area at . Nova Scotia's 49 municipality, municipalities cover of the territory's land mass, and are home to of its population. Unlike the provinces of British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec, which have two-tiered municipal systems, Nova Scotia has a one-tier system of municipalities inclusive of four municipality types – regional municipality#Nova Scotia, regional municipalities, towns, County#Canada, county municipalities and District municipality#Usage in Nova Scotia, district municipalities. Regional municipalities may incorporate under the ''Municipal Government Act'' (''MGA'') of 1998, which came into force on April 1, 1999, while towns, county m ...
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Glace Bay (electoral District)
Glace Bay-Dominion is a provincial electoral district (Canada), electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that elects one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. The Member of the Legislative Assembly since 2021 is John White of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia. It was created in 1933 when the district of Cape Breton was divided into five electoral districts, one of which was named Cape Breton East. In 2001, the district name was changed to Glace Bay. In 2003, the district lost a small area at its southern tip to Cape Breton West. Following the 2019 redistribution, it gained the Dominion, Nova Scotia, Dominion area from Cape Breton Centre and was re-named Glace Bay-Dominion. Geography The land area of Glace Bay-Dominion is . Members of the Legislative Assembly This riding has elected the following Member of the Legislative Assembly, members of the Legislative Assembly: Election results 2024 2021 2017 2013 , - ...
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Brian Comer
Brian Keith Comer (born December 26, 1985)The Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia: a biographical directory from 1984 to the Present: Comer, Brian Keith, page 51
Nova Scotia Legislature
is a politician, who was elected to the in a by-election on September 3, 2019. He represents the electoral district of
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John White (Nova Scotia Politician)
John Hugh White (born March 23, 1967) is a Canadians, Canadian politician, who was elected to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly in the 2021 Nova Scotia general election. He represents the riding of Glace Bay-Dominion as a member of the Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia. He is a mental health professional and Chair of the Nova Scotia Critical Incident Stress Management Team. Electoral record References

Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia MLAs People from the Cape Breton Regional Municipality 21st-century members of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly {{NovaScotia-MLA-stub ...
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Kendra Coombes
Kendra Christine Coombes (born October 25, 1988)The Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia: a biographical directory from 1984 to the Present: Coombes, Kendra Christine, page 54
Nova Scotia Legislature
is a politician, who was elected to the in a on March 10, 2 ...
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Nova Scotia House Of Assembly
The Nova Scotia House of Assembly (; ), or Legislative Assembly, is the deliberative assembly of the General Assembly of Nova Scotia, and together with the lieutenant governor of Nova Scotia makes up the Nova Scotia Legislature. The assembly is the oldest in Canada, having first sat in 1758; in 1848, it was the site of the first responsible government in the British Empire. Bills passed by the House of Assembly are given royal assent by the lieutenant governor in the name of the King of Canada. Originally (in 1758), the Legislature consisted of the Crown represented by a governor (later a lieutenant governor), the appointed Nova Scotia Council holding both executive and legislative duties and an elected House of Assembly (lower chamber). In 1838, the council was replaced by an executive council with the executive function and a legislative council with the legislative functions based on the House of Lords. In 1928, the Legislative Council was abolished and the members pensio ...
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Jaime Battiste
Jaime Y. Battiste (born October 18, 1979) is a Canadian politician who has been a member of the House of Commons of Canada as a member of the Liberal Party since 2019. A member of the Eskasoni First Nation, he is the first Mi'kmaw member of Parliament (MP) in Canada. Background Battiste is the son of Chickasaw legal scholar James (Sákéj) Youngblood Henderson and Miꞌkmaq scholar Marie Battiste, both recipients of Indspire Awards. He is a member of the Eskasoni First Nation. Battiste spent his formative years in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, graduating from Evan Hardy Collegiate in 1997. He holds a degree in Mi’kmaq studies from Cape Breton University and a Juris Doctor from the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University. From 2005 to 2006, Battiste served as co-chair of the Assembly of First Nations National Youth Council. He is also a former AFN regional chief. Battiste was a member of the Content Advisory Committee for the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. ...
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Mike Kelloway
Michael J. "Mike" Kelloway (born September 9, 1970) is a Canadian politician who has been a Liberal Party member of the House of Commons of Canada since the 2019 Canadian federal election The 2019 Canadian federal election was held on October 21, 2019. Members of the House of Commons were elected to the 43rd Canadian Parliament. In keeping with the maximum four-year term under a 2007 amendment to the ''Canada Elections Act'', .... Electoral record References External links * Living people Liberal Party of Canada MPs Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Nova Scotia People from Glace Bay 1970 births 21st-century members of the House of Commons of Canada {{NovaScotia-MP-stub ...
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House Of Commons Of Canada
The House of Commons of Canada () is the lower house of the Parliament of Canada. Together with the Monarchy of Canada#Parliament (King-in-Parliament), Crown and the Senate of Canada, they comprise the Bicameralism, bicameral legislature of Canada. The House of Commons is a democratically elected body whose members are known as Member of Parliament (Canada), members of Parliament (MPs). The number of MPs is adjusted periodically in alignment with each decennial Census in Canada, census. Since the 2025 Canadian federal election, 2025 federal election, the number of seats in the House of Commons has been 343. Members are elected plurality voting, by simple plurality ("first-past-the-post" system) in each of the country's Electoral district (Canada), electoral districts, which are colloquially known as ''ridings''. MPs may hold office until Parliament is dissolved and serve for constitutionally limited terms of up to five years after an election. Historically, however, terms have ...
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Cecil Clarke
Cecil Phillip Clarke (born April 12, 1968) is a politician in Nova Scotia, Canada. He has been the mayor of the Cape Breton Regional Municipality since 2024, and previously served as mayor from 2012 to 2020. He also represented the riding of Cape Breton North in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly, from 2001 to 2011 as a Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia, Progressive Conservative. Before politics Born in North Sydney, Nova Scotia, Clarke graduated with a bachelor's degree from Mount Allison University in 1990. Political career In the 1997 Canadian federal election, 1997 federal election, Clarke made his first attempt at entering politics, running as the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, Progressive Conservative candidate in Sydney—Victoria. He finished third behind New Democrat Peter Mancini, and Liberal Vince MacLean. Clarke turned to provincial politics and was elected in a March 2001 byelection. He was re-elected in the 2003 Nova Scotia general elec ...
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Cape Breton Regional Council
Cape Breton Regional Council is the governing body for the Cape Breton Regional Municipality in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia Nova Scotia is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Canada, located on its east coast. It is one of the three Maritime Canada, Maritime provinces and Population of Canada by province and territory, most populous province in Atlan .... Members ''Elected in the 2024 municipal elections'' References External links Cape Breton Region Council - Councillors {{Canadian municipal councils Politics of the Cape Breton Regional Municipality Municipal councils in Nova Scotia ...
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Victoria-The Lakes
Victoria—The Lakes is a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that elects one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. Its Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) since the 2017 election has been Keith Bain of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia. It was created in 1867 as Victoria, composing all of Victoria County. In 1993, the district gained the area north of the southern border of the Cape Breton Highlands National Park. In 2003, Victoria was renamed Victoria-The Lakes. It lost the top of Inverness County to Inverness and gained some of the rural areas of Cape Breton The Lakes. Geography Victoria-The Lakes has a landmass of . Members of the Legislative Assembly This riding has elected the following members of the Legislative Assembly: Election results 2024 2021 2017 2013 , - , Liberal Party of Nova Scotia , Pam Eyking , align="right", 3,150 , align="right", 38.99 , align="right", +8.39 , - , Progressive Conservat ...
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