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Getting deep into the post-prohibition weeds
If prime minister Justin Trudeau gets his way, Canada will soon be joining the exceptionally small club of countries that have legalized marijuana. His proposed law is currently in the parliamentary process, and he’s aiming for it to go into effect by July 1, 2018. Which sounds cool and all, but are we actually ready […]
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No amount of spin can hide ticket scandal facts
It’s now cover your ass time, as everyone connected to the ticket scandal attempts to shift blame off themselves and put it on someone else. Fred MacGillivray says its Scott Ferguson’s fault. Scott Ferguson says it’s Fred MacGillivray’s fault. Darrell Dexter says it’s the city’s fault. Peter Kelly says no way is it the city’s […]
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(Updated) Property sales secrecy leads to fraud
Nova Scotia is the last province in Canada, and the only jurisdiction in North America, to not make property sales information publicly available. As a result, there is untold fraud related to mortgages, inefficiencies in the appraisal industry and a lack of information for taxpayers to successfully challenge their assessments. That’s the case laid out […]
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How Halifax’s concert scandal played out
Last spring, Halifax’s now-infamous “concert scandal” broke when city staffer Cathie O’Toole revealed that mayor Peter Kelly and the city’s deputy CAO, Wayne Anstey, had improperly extended millions of dollars in loans to concert promoter Harold MacKay’s firm, Power Promotional Events, and that the last two of those loans, totalling $400,000, were not repaid. Anstey […]
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Premier Darrell Dexter’s PR ship has arrived
Hold onto your sailor caps. Rumour is the Harper government will announce which lucky shipyard will be awarded the much-coveted $25 billion warship contract next week. Three companies are vying for the contract to build the 20-navy-ship armada: Irving-owned Halifax shipyard, BC’s Seaspan Marine Corp. and Quebec’s Davie Yards. The runner-up will land an $8 […]
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NS premier cool to independent review of Lwr Churchill project
Premier Dexter is cool to idea of independent review of the Lower Churchill project and he admits he hasn’t seen any cost comparison with electricity from Hydro Quebec.
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Halifax lawyer calls for “catastrophic” auto insurance
Halifax personal injury lawyer calls for a change in auto insurance to allow higher benefits for those who suffer “catastrophic” injuries in car accidents.
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Responding to Darrell Dexter
[image-1] In this week’s Letters to the Editor section, premier Darrell Dexter says that in my coverage of his intervention on the Bridge Terminal issue I was “factually incorrect” and that I misrepresented his position. He references two blog posts I wrote, here and here. In the first blog post, I reported that in 1995, when he was a Dartmouth city councillor, Dexter voted to move the Bridge Terminal onto its present site next to the Dartmouth Sportsplex, which I claim is on the Dartmouth Common. Dexter disputes this, saying, “the land belonging to the Dartmouth Sportsplex had long been
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Province, City come to agreement on Bridge Terminal
Halifax mayor Peter Kelly confirms that the city and the province have sorted out their differences with regard to Dartmouth Common issues, and the Bridge Terminal reconstruction plans are continuing without further change. In June, Halifax council approved a plan to place an expanded Bridge Terminal on Common land, in a configuration that stretched the […]
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Darell Dexter approved moving Bridge Terminal onto Dartmouth Common land in 1995
Premier Darrell Dexter says he has problems with HRM’s plans for expanding the Bridge Terminal on Dartmouth Common land, so I wondered what his past stance on the issue has been. I stopped by the municipal archives this morning to find out. Dexter sat on the old city of Dartmouth’s city council from 1994 through […]
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Mike Cosgrove must like Darrell Dexter’s hesitation on Bridge Terminal
Updated below. Mike Cosgrove, a teacher at Dartmouth High School, has been one of the most vocal critics of placing the Bridge Terminal on the Dartmouth Common—in any orientation. With the premier suddenly raising concerns about the terminal, Cosgrove sends the following email, which I’m posting here with his permission: Hi Tim, As you know, […]