Last week’s federal budget reminded me of the forlorn tramps in Sam Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, especially when Estragon says to Vladimir, “Don’t let’s do anything. It’s safer.” I’m sure those forlorn federal comedians Steve H. and Jim F. spoke words like those in private, but publicly they’re trying to stay in power by pretending […]
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The Feds buy half a bus
In the grand scheme of things, it isn’t much—the $105,000 Transport Canada awarded the Halifax Regional Municipality this month through its ecoMOBILITY program, plus $140,000 from the Halifax-Dartmouth Bridge Commission and Conserve Nova Scotia, could only buy half a bus. But it’ll help. The ecoMOBILITY program gives money to cities and towns that have what […]
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Commonwealth Games investigation part two: where the money went
A year ago last Saturday, Halifax’s Commonwealth Games bid collapsed in acrimony. Politicians pointed fingers at each other and the public demanded answers. But everyone involved in the bid—provincial, federal and municipal officials, and the executives they placed in charge—kept mum, and refused to say what happened to the $8.5 million in public money that […]