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I would like to add a section for Nova Scotia to the wikipedia article about Open Data (Open data in Canada).

Alberta
On May 28, 2013, the Province of Alberta launched the Alberta Open Data Portal with approximately 244 datasets. In August 2015 a new portal open.alberta.ca was released to the public, adding further content to the datasets including Government of Alberta publications, a blog, descriptions of how both datasets and publications are chosen and published on the portal. As of October 2017, there are 2361 datasets available to the public, including datasets connected to GeoDiscover Alberta.

British Columbia
On July 19, 2011, the Province of British Columbia launched DataBC, Canada's first provincial open data site. It contains data across a broad spectrum of subjects, access to tools to analyze the data, and a blog featuring data-related posts. Previously the site had been used just to host environmental data as part of the Apps 4 Climate Action contest, Canada's first app development contest. John Anzin was the grand prize winner as the designer of the best Web App in the Apps4Climate Action Apps contest held on September 16th, 2010 at the Vancouver Aquarium, and attended by the Honourable John Yap, Minister of State for Climate Action. The winning App created by John Anzin is named VELO. VELO is a web app for businesses that encourages GHG emissions reduction through measurement and benchmarking internally and against peers. The app allows users to create visuals of an organization’s emissions by numerous parameters, e.g. geography, branch, division, year, etc. Businesses would have the potential to change their practices, which can have far-reaching effects.

Ontario
In 2011, Ontario’s minister of research and innovation, Glen Murray announced on Twitter that the province had an open data project "being built over the next few months”. Minister Murray indicated "the project is fully funded through MaRS - it is being built over the next few months".

As of November 8, 2012, the Province of Ontario has an open data portal. It launched with 63 files.

Quebec
The Gautrin Report (Rapport Gautrin, "Gouverner ensemble : Comment le Web 2.0 améliorera-t-il les services aux citoyens?") released May 2, 2012, announced many open government initiatives, including an open data portal.

The open data portal went live June 28, 2012.

Nova Scotia
In a video to Nova Scotians Premier of Nova Scotia, Steven McNeil, announces that the province is joining the open data movement across the country. The portal returns 691 results in its catalog of data sets. The Open Data team partners with Dalhousie University in Halifax, NS to offer a contest where students use public data sets in a contents to crate data products.

Municipal
The number of municipalities adopting open data policies and releasing open data has been steadily increasing since 2008. Cities across Canada such as Edmonton and Ottawa have created various contests for building apps that utilize municipal open data.