Halifax Examiner
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Aug 4, 2026
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Nicole Boutilier, new CEO of Nova Scotia Health, hired without competing for the job
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Nicole Boutilier, new CEO of Nova Scotia Health, hired without competing for the job
Also: One family’s trauma never seems to end; Houston government goes to bat for Australian gold miner’s problem-plagued mega-project in Nova Scotia
BY TIM BOUSQUET
AUGUST 4, 2026
Dr. Nicole Boutilier, the newly appointed CEO of Nova Scotia Health. Credit: Nova Scotia Health
Last month, I reported that Karen Oldfield had been named CEO of Accelerate Nova Scotia, “an agency without an office, staff, budget, or much of a reason for existing, and she got the job without competing for it.”
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