Tim Bousquet

Fougere explains processCouncillor Sheila Fougere explains her problems with the process by which council reversed course on the Chebucto Road widening, and discusses the potential motivation for those who changed their votes.LISTEN>> Tim Outhit’s Rookie Move Councillor Tim Outhit claims that while he voted today to reconsider last week’s vote against funding the Chebucto Road […]

Reversing direction from last week, Halifax council this morning voted to approve the Chebucto Road widening project. Construction crews are expected to start work almost immediately. The council’s action came through a series of three votes: First, councillor David Hensbee put forward a motion of reconsideration. Councillor Sheila Fougere objected to the motion on procedural […]

Blame these guys: Nova Scotia Power paid its top two executives 41 per cent more than the industry average in 2007, according to a consultants report released Monday… Much of the report was blacked out for confidentiality reasons by the government regulator, including the 11 executives’ names and salaries, except NSP president Ralph Tedesco’s name. […]

If you think the rising cost of gasoline has been difficult to deal with, just wait until you have to start buying home heating oil. As this graph illustrates, 30-day futures for home heating oil are now trading at nearly twice the price of just a year ago. It’s approaching $4 US/gallon, and that’s before […]

I don’t understand the hesitation to require payment before pumping… Gas thieves are striking far more frequently, say station owners across the country as pump prices continue to rise. Wayne Pace, who operates a service station Tantallon, N.S., says he’s had to be even more vigilant lately about people who fill their tanks and take […]

Council Tuesday approved construction of the 19-storey “Trillium” building for the corner of South Park Street and Brenton Place. Many residents of the nearby historic Schmidtville area spoke against the project, but it was an uphill battle from the start: The immediate area already contains many high rises, including the truly horrifying 21-storey Park Victoria […]

Coming soon to a highway near you: The province is considering a pilot project to assess the use of long combination vehicles (LCV)—one truck hauling two 53-foot long trailers in tandem. The government is under strong pressure from the trucking industry to adopt LCVs, which could result in huge cost reductions and allow truckers to […]

The Chebucto Road widening project was supposed to be a done deal. Regional council debated it, approved it, funded it. On Monday, our reporter Chris Benjamin submitted his copy for this week’s paper, an article about how the residents along Chebucto Road were dealing with the loss of their properties (either the strip along the […]

Regional council this morning has rejected the $2 million tender for widening Chebucto Road. I’ll have more on this, and what it means, later today.

Gas price regulation. Check out the reader comments to see how MacDonald owns that policy failure.

We get press releases: Jennifer Watts announces candidacy for District 14 council seat “District 14 needs transportation policies that are environmentally sound and respect neighbourhood integrity,” said Jennifer Watts in announcing her candidacy for the Connaught-Quinpool seat on HRM council. “Concerns about traffic in and through District 14 consistently top the list of issues people […]

All hell is breaking loose on the commodities markets today.