The Soul's Harbour Rescue Mission project will offer supportive housing to women and their children in the form of a three-storey residential building to be built by year's end.

The province did not purchase any Halifax Common land for the construction of the 500-space parkade on Summer St.

To some residents of Canso, part of Guysborough County, the prospect of becoming an aeronautical hub can seem far-fetched. Even though the project is galactic in its ambitions, Bell said, locals stand to benefit.