Scott Logan, who was CEO of the Halifax 2014 Commonwealth Games Bid Committee, has been hired by Trade Centre Limited as the chief business development officer. Halifax’s aborted bid to win hosting rights to the Commonwealth Games was characterized by secrecy, out of control spending and busted budgets. As The Coast revealed in a two-part […]
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Halifax dodged a Delhi-like Commonwealth Games bullet
After I was on CBC’s Information Morning yesterday, I had a couple of people take me to task for saying that Halifax would have had Delhi-like problems, had we actually won the Commonwealth Games hosting rights. So let me explain a bit. It’s been widely reported that the Delhi Games are in utter chaos. Now, […]
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Commonwealth Games West
The city of Vancouver is desperately trying to find $485 million to cover cost overruns and the loss of financing for the Olympic Village, and as a result the city faces a potential downgrade in its credit rating, which will cost taxpayers millions more in increased borrowing costs. Vancouver’s problems are nearly identical to the […]
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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 […]
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Commonwealth Games Investigation part one: Halifax 2014 big plans
Seven months after Halifax’s Commonwealth Games bid collapsed, there still hasn’t been full disclosure of the records of the Halifax 2014 Bid Society, the non-governmental organization put together to pursue the Commonwealth Games. Neither has there been public discussion of the decision-making process that led to the demise of Halifax’s bid. So how are we […]