When you next fly into Halifax and ride the Airporter into town, if you want to get off at the hotel at Robie and Quinpool, don’t ask for the Holiday Inn Select. The towering hotel with 232 rooms and suites is now known as the Atlantica Hotel Halifax (1980 Robie, 423-1161) and is owned by IMP Group, the local defense contractor that also owns CanJet airline.
This article appears in Jul 9-15, 2009.
Carsten obviously forgot to research the IMP Group before calling it a defense contractor. Perhaps the writer could use Google next time to find the company’s website and see that defence work is only a small part when it comes to all the different IMP-owned businesses out there: http://www.impgroup.com/en/home/default.as…