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  Darrell Dexter | Mapleleafweb.com
Darrell Dexter was raised in Milton, Nova Scotia.
Dexter was the first member of his family to pursue university studies and subsequently earned three degrees: a degree in Journalism from the University of King’s College and degrees in both Education and Law from Dalhousie University.
Dexter is committed to balanced budgets and reducing the economic burden of the provincial debt through a balanced and responsible approach that includes spending on key areas as necessary.
www.mapleleafweb.com /voter-almanac/darrell-dexter   (329 words)

  
 Nova Scotia NDP:Darrell Dexter
Darrell Dexter was elected Leader of the Nova Scotia NDP in 2001.
Darrell was first elected to public office as a Dartmouth City Councillor in 1994.
Darrell’s involvement in the business community has lead him to the knowledge that a better deal for today’s families is only lasting if it is built on solid economic foundations.
www.ns.ndp.ca /?id=1   (562 words)

  
 DEXTER CHOSEN NDP LEADER   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In accepting the job as leader of his party, Dexter also urged delegates to leave the convention "charged with the energy" that rose from their convention, and involve as many people as possible in developing solutions to the challenges facing their communities and the province.
Dexter has committed to remaining as party leader at least until the next leadership election which will likely be held in late May 2002.
Darrell Dexter is a former Queens County resident who served as a member of Dartmouth City Council, and as president of the Downtown Dartmouth Development Corporation, before he was elected to the legislature.
www.ndpcaucus.ns.ca /Caucus/News/Jun01/darrell_leader.html   (240 words)

  
  Elxn-NS, 1st Writethru Bgt   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Party Leader Darrell Dexter stressed fiscal prudence at the NDP headquarters in Dartmouth on Monday as he outlined his two-year plan should his party, which has never formed a government in Nova Scotia, win the June 13 vote.
Dexter repeated his promise to cut the provincial portion of the harmonized sales tax on home-heating costs, which is also part of the Conservative platform but has been rejected by the Liberals.
But Dexter, who has used his leverage in Nova Scotia's minority government to promote NDP initiatives, said the Conservatives have a history of broken promises and can't be trusted to follow through.
www.cp.org /premium/online/commercial/atlantic/060522/t052202A.html   (684 words)

  
 CBC - Nova Scotia Votes 2003
Darrell Dexter, leader of the New Democratic Party and Cole Harbour MLA.
Darrell Dexter wants you to forget he's a lawyer, and think of him as the leader with "the right experience for today's families."
Dexter was swept into the Legislature with 18 other NDP members on March 24, 1998, – the largest NDP caucus in provincial history.
www.cbc.ca /nsvotes2003/parties/dexter.html   (571 words)

  
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Darrell Dexter has been the leader of the Nova Scotia NDP since June 2001, and in June 2002 won the party’s first one member, one vote, election for leader.
This policy, one that Darrell has called “draconian,” was finally brought to an end in the 2004 budget introduced in a minority government.
Darrell is married to Kelly Wilson and has a son, Harris.
www.ndpcaucus.ns.ca /Caucus/Mlas/caucus.php3?mlaid=4   (410 words)

  
 CBC - Nova Scotia Votes 2006 - Parties and Leaders - Key Leaders - Darrell Dexter
Dexter became leader of the New Democrats in June 2001.
Dexter says those budgets reflected NDP issues, such as eliminating the health-care charges for seniors in nursing homes.
Dexter was a lawyer before entering public life.
www.cbc.ca /nsvotes2006/parties/NDPdexter.html   (589 words)

  
 The Coast - Halifax's news, movies, music and classifieds.
Dexter used the setting, carefully stage-managed to win precious air time on the supper-hour TV newscasts, to attack his Conservative opponents for breaking a 1999 promise to expand long-term care facilities in the province.
Dexter's advance team—two women, one from Alberta, the other from New Brunswick—finally arrive at Mangle's headquarters with news that the leader's swing through the Annapolis Valley is on schedule.
Darrell Dexter, in fact, very calculatedly launched his party's election campaign in the Waverley riding and, by then end of the second week of the campaign, had visited the constituency two more times.
www.thecoast.ca /1editorialbody.lasso?-token.folder=2006-06-01&-token.story=139003.112113&-token.subpub=   (2878 words)

  
 politics
Darrell Dexter was elected to the legislature on March 24, 1998, joining 18 other NDP members to form the largest NDP caucus ever in Nova Scotia.
Darrell Dexter is currently a partner in the law firm of Weldon Beeler Mont and Dexter.
Darrell is a member of the Board of Directors of the Victoria Order of Nurses (Dartmouth Branch), on the Audit Committee of the Heritage Credit Union, a member of the Board of Directors of the Downtown Development Corporation, a member of the Community Planning Association and a member of the Nova Scotia Barrister’s Society.
www.srbjh.ednet.ns.ca /politics.htm   (490 words)

  
 CTV.ca | Darrell Dexter must overcome compromises with Tories
But those measures that Dexter helped usher in may thwart his efforts to win the election, says Michael MacMillan, chairman of the political science department at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax.
Dexter comes from humble roots that can be traced to his days as a newspaper boy in the north end of Halifax.
Still, Dexter is faced with the task of persuading rural Nova Scotians that the NDP is a viable government-in-waiting.
www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060515/nselxn_dexter_feature_060515/20060518   (663 words)

  
 Council Minutes March 11, 2004
The Chair welcomed Darrell Dexter, Leader of the New Democratic Party, accompanied by MLA’s Frank Corbett and Gordie Gosse.
Dexter has taken the initiative to meet with Council to address the issues relating to the recent Council decision in adopting the legal opinion of Mr.
Dexter said that they will try to eliminate the reasons why Council feel that it is necessary to take the lawsuit against the Province by focusing their efforts to address the following:
www.cbrm.ns.ca /portal/civic/council-minutes/2004/CouncilMinutesMarch11_2004.htm   (251 words)

  
 Welcome to NDP Caucus -
Dexter Introduces Retail Holiday Closure, Street Racing Legislation
Halifax - NDP Leader Darrell Dexter kicked off the fall sitting of the legislature by introducing two private member bills – the Retail Business Uniform Closing Day Act and the...
Halifax - Leonard Preyra, MLA for Halifax Citadel and NDP Post-Secondary Education Critic, introduced a private member’s bill today in the legislature that, if passed, would gi...
www.ndpcaucus.ns.ca   (106 words)

  
 Save Our Sundays - Darrell Dexter's refusal to recognize a democracy
Darrell Dexter was on telling us that, "he can not fix the loop holes", and that the law was struck down across the country.
ATV also reported,that Mr Dexter is a lawyer.
Fifty-Five percent of Nova Scotians voted against Sunday shopping in 2004 and Darrell Dexter claims that the loop holes can't be fixed.
www.saveoursundays.ca /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=14   (0 words)

  
 CD Baby: 'D' POETIC PREACHA: The Spiritual Lyricist
Darrell now serves as Minister of Music and Youth Pastor at Free Spirit Community Church, where his parents: James and Margie Kelly are the pastors.
Darrell is the loving husband of Angela and proud father of his daughter Zuri.
Darrell has had the privilege to share the stage with some of Gospel Music's most renowned artists, such as: Helen Baylor, Vernessa Mitchell, Angelo & Veronica, Phil Driscol, Henry Louw, Urban Hope, Daryl Coley, The Cross Movement, John P. Kee, D.C.P. and L. Wise.
www.cdbaby.com /cd/dpoetic2   (391 words)

  
 October 25, 2005 - Halifax, NS - NDP Leader Darrell Dexter has once again called on the Conservat... Injured Veteran ...
October 25, 2005 - Halifax, NS - NDP Leader Darrell Dexter has once again called on the Conservatives to eliminate the $2,500 cap on insurance settlements after highlighting how this practice disproportionately affects women, the elderly, and students.
During Tuesday's Question Period, Dexter introduced the case of Stanley Martin, a 74-year old veteran injured in an automobile accident in December 2003 which was not his fault.
Martin's insurer deemed his injuries to be minor and within the cap, though his daily life continues to be affected by his injuries.
www.lifeinsuranceforseniors.net /node/1976   (224 words)

  
 The ChronicleHerald.ca
Dexter than the leaders of the Conservatives and Liberals because the NDP candidate has been around longer.
Dexter, 48, started his political career as a Dartmouth city councillor and won a legislature seat in 1998.
Dexter's classic-rock favourites: Nazareth, Alice Cooper, Steely Dan.
thechronicleherald.ca /provelect/Dexter_story.html   (846 words)

  
 Darrell Dexter - 18 Months Too Long For HST Relief On Essentials   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Eighteen months is the notice period required to terminate the current HST agreement with Ottawa and the two other provinces, and negotiate a new one," says Dexter.
Dexter goes on to stress that this is a "common sense solution" to problems being faced by Nova Scotians and their families.
The Opposition Leader will be joined at the press conference by representatives of the Nova Scotia Seniors Federation and Women's Centres Connect, a province-wide coalition of women's centres, to speak about the challenges families face because of the current HST agreement.
www.halifaxlive.com /artman/publish/printer_dexter_o21705_520.shtml   (199 words)

  
 DARRELL DEXTER, TORIES QUIETLY HIKE AUTO INSURANCE RATES
Opposition Leader Darrell Dexter is challenging the John Hamm government's decision to quietly allow insurance companies to increase auto insurance rates that had been frozen, so that drivers insured by those companies will not receive the legislated 20% auto insurance rate rollback.
Increases ranging from 6.3% to 35.27% were permitted by the regulation, according to the government's own list of increases that had been halted by the auto insurance rate freeze.
On May 1 the company's proposal for a 6.3% increase was blocked by the Hamm government's rate freeze on May 1.
www.halifaxlive.com /Darrell_Dexter_02062004_001.htm   (396 words)

  
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Darrell Dexter’s New Democrats are no longer the “free-floating failures” of Nova Scotia politics.
It is the third day of the first full week of campaigning for the June 13th provincial general election, and Dexter is spending this afternoon on a minivan tour of the Annapolis Valley, planting the seeds of constituency campaign offices in Greenwood, Wolfville and Windsor.
Darrell Dexter, who describes himself as “a political junkie who thoroughly enjoys the machinations and strategic thinking” that go into such discussions, knows all about those permutations and combinations and what ifs… which may be why he doesn’t want to talk about them.
www.stephenkimber.com /blog.php?cid=25   (2712 words)

  
 The News: Columns | Supporting the farming industry
The province’s agriculture industry is struggling and farmers need help, leader Darrell Dexter said at a news conference yesterday.
Dexter points out that the Tories have promised such a campaign several times since they took power in 1999, but they haven’t delivered.
Dexter said the province’s federation of agriculture is pushing for a program to educate consumers about Nova Scotia-produced products.
www.newglasgownews.com /index.cfm?sid=7863&sc=53   (401 words)

  
 N.D.P. says hospital waiting lists caused by fees for seniors
Dexter says removing the draconian fees and the assessment process means seniors can go directly to nursing homes.
Dexter pointed to the annual report of the Queen Elizabeth Two Health Sciences Centre, which he says supports his claim.
Dexter says if an N.D.P. government is elected on August 5th, it will do away with the assessment and fees.
www.globalaging.org /health/world/ndp.htm   (196 words)

  
 CANOE -- CNEWS - Canada: N.S. budget passes unanimously with support from NDP   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Nonetheless, NDP Leader Darrell Dexter said his party didn't want to risk a potential election.
When pressed about why the decision was made to support the budget despite the Liberal declaration, Dexter said his party had to be true to itself.
Dexter pointed to provisions to help lower post-secondary tuitions, the removal of the provincial portion of the HST on home energy costs and a tax credit for firefighters as prime factors in winning NDP support.
cnews.canoe.ca /CNEWS/Canada/2007/04/13/4003360-cp.html   (698 words)

  
 Me and my dogs in Halifax, Nova Scotia: There really is NO ONE to vote for now
Darrell Dexter's answer to the question: "Where do you stand on breed-specific legislation that would ban certain breeds of dogs like Rottweilers or pit bull terriers?" was: "Personally, I support breed-specific legislation."
Darrell Dexter: No. My wife and I both have very busy lives, and I often have to travel.
Darrell Dexter: Yes, I think the province has a role to play in regulating pet breeders and those who sell pets, for both the protection of the animals and the protection of families looking for a pet.
dogkisser.blogspot.com /2006/06/there-really-is-no-one-to-vote-for-now.html   (2041 words)

  
   Douglas urges public support for medicare
Federal New Democratic Party Leader Alexa McDonough, who's leaving that post in January, said she wanted to hear a commitment from the premiers to a public, not-for-profit health-care system.
McDonough and provincial NDP Leader Darrell Dexter outlined their concerns about Halifax's private MRI clinic and the fact the Health Department can't regulate it.
Dexter wouldn't say an NDP government under him would shut down the clinic, but the party will introduce legislation this fall that would regulate such clinics.
globalag.igc.org /health/world/douglas.htm   (531 words)

  
 Mat Whynott-NDP Candidate for Hammonds Plains-Upper Sackville
Dartmouth, NS— At a post-debate breakfast to thank volunteers and show support for local candidates, NDP Leader Darrell Dexter reaffirmed his commitment to delivering a better deal for families and to continue to hold the Conservatives accountable for their seven years of broken promises.
Dexter said while continuing to travel around the province to support the NDP plan for today’s families, he will continue to press the Conservatives to answer for their record, questions the Conservative Leader refused to answer during Thursday’s debate.
Dartmouth, NS — In Thursday night’s Leaders Debate, NDP Leader Darrell Dexter made a strong case for the NDP’s better deal for today’s families, which using the Conservatives’ own record of broken promises to hold Conservative leader Rodney MacDonald accountable for his record in government.
www.matwhynott.ca /index.html   (849 words)

  
 News Releases - Saint Mary's University
NDP Opposition Leader Darrell Dexter (a podium) and Dr. Leonard Preyra, MLA (NDP) for Halifax-Citadel and Education Critic, unveiled a new web site (cutthefees.ca) at a news conference held on campus this morning.
Opposition Leader Darrell Dexter today launched a new NDP campaign to cut the fees for Nova Scotia post-secondary students.
Dexter has launched a web site (www.cutthefees.ca) so that students and their families can show their support for quick action to lower tuition fees.
www.smu.ca /newsreleases/2006/09-18-180-2006.html   (427 words)

  
 Dexter D Localities Georgia United States North America Regional
Dexter D Localities Georgia United States North America Regional
Jesse Lauhrun 6-4, 6-2; Dexter Blackwell (N) d.
John Mauney 6-7, 5-7; Dexter Blackwell (N) d.
www.iaswww.com /ODP/Regional/North_America/United_States/Georgia/Localities/D/Dexter   (346 words)

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