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- Meet this department's new Minister, The Honourable Denise Peterson-Rafuse
- Report of the Domestic Violence Prevention Committee
- Affordable Housing in Nova Scotia Gets $128-million Boost
- New round of Expansion & Replacement Loan funding available to licensed child care centres
- Progress Report: Our Kids Are Worth It - First Year
- Weaving the Threads: A Lasting Social Fabric
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