The Status of Moose in Nova Scotia

1968 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 325
Author(s):  
Edmund S. Telfer
Keyword(s):  
Nova Scotia ◽  
The Status

Setting the standard for healthy eating: Continuous quality improvement for health promotion at Nova Scotia Health

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-55
Author(s):  
Laura J. Kennedy ◽  
Nathan G. A. Taylor ◽  
Taylor Nicholson ◽  
Emily Jago ◽  
Brenda L. MacDonald ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Quality Improvement ◽  
Nova Scotia ◽  
Healthy Eating ◽  
Continuous Quality Improvement ◽  
Healthcare Organizations ◽  
Quality Improvement Process ◽  
Continuous Quality ◽  
The Status ◽  
Collaborative Efforts

Healthcare organizations engage in continuous quality improvement to improve performance and value-for-performance, but the pathway to change is often rooted in challenging the way things are “normally” done. In an effort to propel system-wide change to support healthy eating, Nova Scotia Health developed and implemented a healthy eating policy as a benchmark to create a food environment supportive of health. This article describes the healthy eating policy and its role as a benchmark in the quality improvement process. The policy, rooted in health promotion, sets a standard for healthy eating and applies to stakeholders both inside and outside of health. We explain how the policy offers nutrition but also cultural benchmarks around healthy eating, bringing practitioners throughout Nova Scotia Health together and sustaining collaborative efforts to improve upon the status quo.

scholarly journals Movements of the Eastern Ribbonsnake (Thamnophis sauritus) in Nova Scotia

2016 ◽  
Vol 129 (4) ◽  
pp. 379
Author(s):  
T. L. Imlay ◽  
J. Saroli ◽  
T. B. Herman ◽  
S. W. Mockford
Keyword(s):  
Nova Scotia ◽  
Annual Variation ◽  
Prey Availability ◽  
Home Range Size ◽  
Water Levels ◽  
Suitable Habitat ◽  
Home Ranges ◽  
Daily Movement ◽  
The Status ◽  
Best Fit

The disjunct Eastern Ribbonsnake (Thamnophis sauritus) population in southwest Nova Scotia is listed as “threatened” by the committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. A study of the movements of the species at two lakeshore locations known to support a high density of Eastern Ribbonsnakes was undertaken in 2007 and 2008. Average seasonal movements at both sites ranged from 17 m to 84 m for juvenile snakes and 21 m to 130 m for adults; one neonate was recaptured during the study after travelling 32 m. The maximum distance travelled by an individual snake was 391 m in one season. The best-fit model to explain differences in daily movement patterns included year (P = 0.041), indicating that there is annual variation in the movements of this species. Low recapture rates precluded accurate estimates of home-range size, which varied roughly from 0.16 ha to 0.78 ha. Both movements and home ranges were larger than previously documented in Nova Scotia, but maximum distances travelled were consistent with a previous study in Michigan. Most documented movements were along the lakeshore within contiguous, suitable habitat. More work is needed to understand the frequency of large movements and triggers that initiate movements, e.g., changes in water levels, habitat suitability, or prey availability.

scholarly journals THE FISHERY FOR SPECKLED TROUT, Salvelinus fontinalis, OVER A 28 YEAR PERIOD IN THE TANGIER GRAND LAKE WILDERNESS AREA, NOVA SCOTIA

2013 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
John L. MacMillan ◽  
Reginald J. Madden ◽  
Tamara Wilson ◽  
Megan Kenney
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Nova Scotia ◽  
Salvelinus Fontinalis ◽  
Age And Growth ◽  
Access Road ◽  
Wilderness Area ◽  
Check Points ◽  
The Status ◽  
Over Exploitation ◽  
Trout Fishery

The Tangier Grand Lake Wilderness Area (16,000 ha) is located about 100km east of Halifax, Nova Scotia, and supports a popular fishery for speckled trout. The purpose of this study was to assess the status of the trout fishery and address concerns related to over-exploitation. Angler check points were occupied during 1979 and 2007 on an access road to sample the catch of anglers during the May-June period of heavy angler activity. In 1979, a total of 1380 interviewed anglers spent 6889 hours to catch 1852 trout. In comparison, a total of 178 interviewed anglers spent 1363 hours to catch 593 trout during 2007. The differences associated with sample size between survey years reflect sub-sampling in 2007 rather than a change in angler activity. The majority of anglers retained less than three trout and of the total trout caught, anglers released 19% in 1979 and 50% in 2007. Catch per hour, size, age, and growth rate of trout were similar between surveys. Results indicated that there was little change in this fishery between the 28 years separating the two creel surveys.

Canadian Inland Waters of the Atlantic Provinces and the Bay of Fundy Incident

1963 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 149-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
G.V. La Forest
Keyword(s):  
Nova Scotia ◽  
New Brunswick ◽  
International Law ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Bay Of Fundy ◽  
Inland Waters ◽  
Fishing Fleet ◽  
The Status ◽  
Newspaper Reporter

The recent penetration of a Russian fishing fleet into the Bay of Fundy has raised anew the status of that bay in international law. The manner in which the incident arose puts the issues involved in the clearest possible terms. Shortly after the Russian fleet was sighted in the bay, a newspaper reporter was informed by an unidentified federal government official that “No particular interest is being shown the fleet by the Canadian departments of fisheries and transport” and that “as long as they stayed outside the three mile limit, they would be subject to no restrictions from Canada.” This statement did not sit well with Premier Robichaud of New Brunswick, who promptly wired Prime Minister Diefenbaker that “The Bay of Fundy is an integral part of the provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia” and requested that Canada protest to Russia this violation of Canadian territory.

An Assessment of the Status of Cyanolichens in Nova Scotia

Evansia ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frances Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Nova Scotia ◽  
The Status

Establishment of Canada as a sovereign state: from dominion to kingdom

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 134-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Сергей Котов ◽  
Sergey Kokotov
Keyword(s):  
Nova Scotia ◽  
North America ◽  
New England ◽  
New France ◽  
Sovereign State ◽  
British North America ◽  
Colonial Empire ◽  
The Status ◽  
History Of ◽  
British Colonial

The history of the establisment of Canada as a sovereign state is inseparably linked with the history of the English (later British) colonial empire. Initially land amounting then to Canada, are peripheral areas of the continental possessions of the British Crown in North America. First of all, they include the possession of Hudson´s Bay, Nova Scotia peninsula and the island of Newfoundland. A stronghold of the British presence in the New World colonies were New England, which followed the metropolis actively at odds with the neighboring colonies of France. The long period of Anglo-French wars culminated in the defeat of France and inclusion of its holdings (Louisiana, New France) to the British colonial empire. The territory of the future of Canada became part of a vast political and legal space, which some researchers call the British-American colonial empire. On the socio-economic point of view nothing has changed - these lands were still underdeveloped periphery of the colonies of New England. There had no prerequisites to the formation here of their own institutions of statehood. In the course of the war for the independence of the inhabitants of the colony of Quebec (the former New France), the peninsula of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, for various reasons did not support the rebellious colonies, so many supporters of the unity of the British Empire (the so-called loyalists) moved to these areas. This led to the formation of a number of new colonies, such as Upper Canada, Nyubransuik, Prince Edward Island. Together, they accounted for British North America - in contrast to the United States. It is important to emphasize that even in the middle of the XIX century British North America remained a conglomerate of disparate, sparsely populated, economically underdeveloped areas, both in the immediate possession of the British Crown, and under the control of private companies. Their transformation into a self-governing federation certainly reflected the interests of the nascent trade and economic elite of these colonies. However, this was no less exposed to "US factor" and the liberal-democratic changes that took place in the metropolis itself. Exploring the complex of concrete historical factors that determine the character of the process of establishing Canada as a sovereign state, the author of this article analyzes the formal and legal aspects of the system of power and administration, established under the British colonial empire, as well as the key points of the doctrine of English law, refers to the institution of the Crown, Parliament and the status of imperial colonial government. Emphasized is the idea that the evolution of Canada from the set of "royal" to the self-governing colonies of the federation in the status of dominion and then gaining the status of the kingdom carried out on the basis of gradual development of constitutional conventions of political practice that leaves open to interpretation the question of when exactly Canada acquired the status of a sovereign state.

scholarly journals Common Eider Wintering Trends in Nova Scotia, 1970–2019

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 565-571
Author(s):  
Gregory J. Robertson ◽  
Sarah N. P. Wong ◽  
Molly D. Tomlik ◽  
G. Randy Milton ◽  
Glen J. Parsons ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nova Scotia ◽  
Generalized Additive Models ◽  
Additive Models ◽  
Somateria Mollissima ◽  
The Past ◽  
Common Eiders ◽  
The Status ◽  
Complex Population ◽  
Wintering Area ◽  
Distributional Shifts

Abstract Common eiders Somateria mollissima have been a focus of conservation and management efforts in eastern North American for over a century; however, the complex population structure and multiple subspecies make assessing the status of populations challenging. The coastlines of Nova Scotia, Canada, are an important wintering area for common eiders, and significant harvests of common eiders occur in the province. We analyzed trends in the number of wintering common eiders using the coasts of Nova Scotia from dedicated waterfowl surveys flown since 1970, and every year since 1992. We used Generalized Additive Models to assess the apparent non-linear trends in the counts of common eiders over the past 50 y. We found that numbers of common eiders wintering in Nova Scotia increased from 1970 to the early 2010s, with strong growth in the 2000s (peaking at 7% growth/y). Since the early 2010s, the growth has stopped, and the numbers are now declining. Recent declines in the population wintering in Nova Scotia corroborate other evidence that common eiders are declining in the region, and may also indicate distributional shifts of common eiders in eastern North America.

ALIEN INVASION: THE STATUS OF NON-NATIVE LADY BEETLES (COLEOPTERA: COCCINELLIDAE) IN INDUSTRIAL CAPE BRETON, NOVA SCOTIA

2000 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 241-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. M. Cormier ◽  
T. A. Forbes ◽  
T. A. Jones ◽  
R. D. Morrison ◽  
D. B. McCorquodale
Keyword(s):  
Nova Scotia ◽  
Cape Breton ◽  
Lady Beetles ◽  
The Status ◽  
Alien Invasion
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