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Two Nova Scotia party leaders lent their voice to the chorus of those against the sale of Owls Head lands at a rally in Halifax on Saturday, while the PCs and Liberals canvassed rural areas.

In this instalment of the Election Notebook: NDP talk meals for school kids, Liberals talk child care and representation, Tories talk health care and Greens talk universal basic income.

  HALIFAX -- Junior Barnes wasn't planning to vote Tuesday, but after speaking with us outside a returning office, he decided to go for it. "I've made a decision, and the decision is to vote on the party that will give me what I need -- or not me, but everybody," Barnes said. Helen Skidmore hasn't voted yet, but is planning to soon, noting she knows who she's voting for. David Murphy is still undecided. "A lot of times politicians will make decisions and you want to be absolutely sure they are going to do what they deliver on," Murphy said.

  HALIFAX -- Nova Scotia's provincial election might not be until Aug.17, but early voting is already underway at 55 returning offices across the province. "It's been slow with respect to voters. We're hoping that they'll soon start to come to our office," said Eric Cottreau, the returning officer for Hammonds Plains-Lucasville. Voters don't need to be within their own riding to cast a ballot at a returning office before election day — which is helpful for anyone who's vacationing this summer. On election day, voters must vote in the assigned voting location. Elections Nova Scotia is e...