“Adam’s fall” Matthieu Aikins’ award-winning feature on suicides from the Macdonald Bridge is a heartbreaking read even now, a decade after its publication. A year after Aikins’ story was printed, the bridge commission finally decided to install safety barriers along the old bridge to prevent future deaths. Seals of approval One of the most-read stories […]
Mary Thibeault
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Judge approves settlement between Thibeault heirs and Peter Kelly
Eight years, three months and four days after Mary Thibeault died, Peter Kelly is now free of her estate. Today, justice Peter Rosinski signed an order accepting Kelly’s accounting of the estate and discharging Kelly of all further responsibilities. The heirs’ lawyer, Larry Graham, has issued the following press release: Mediated Confidential Settlement – Estate […]
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New problems for Peter Kelly from Thibeault estate
Clarification, February 11: Elizabeth Herrit’s lawyer, Larry Graham, called The Coast Friday to return a Coast call made late Thursday afternoon. That is, he did not initiate the conversation. That should’ve been made more clear in the article. The saga of Peter Kelly and Mary Thibeault continues. In September, a judge removed Kelly as executor […]
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Missing pieces in the Thibeault estate
We reported this morning, Peter Kelly is being removed as executor of the Mary Thibeault estate effective October 1. That’s also the date that Kelly must provide a full accounting of the estate while it was in his control. In January, the court will review that accounting. But the accounting won’t be complete unless it […]
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BREAKING NEWS: Peter Kelly removed as executor of the Mary Thibeault estate
Supreme Court Justice Peter Rosinski has removed Peter Kelly as executor of the Mary Thibeault estate. Thibeault was a family friend of Kelly. She died in 2004 at the age of 91, leaving her estate to 18 heirs, including Kelly, and naming Kelly as the executor. But over seven years have passed and the estate […]
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Peter Kelly misses filing deadline for next week’s court hearing
Mayor Peter Kelly has failed to meet an important deadline leading up to next week’s court hearing to determine if Kelly should be removed as executor of the estate of Mary Thibeault. In her will, Thibeault named Kelly as executor of her estate, charging him with handling her property and making sure it was properly […]
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Peter Kelly to appear before judge
Mayor Peter Kelly’s problems with the Mary Thibeault estate will soon take centre stage at Probate Court. Kelly was a family friend of Thibeault, and in her will Thibeault named Kelly as both one of 18 heirs, and as sole executor of her estate. Thibeault died on December 7, 2004, and Kelly was appointed the […]
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What happens next with the Thibeault estate case?
Last week, five of the heirs to the Mary Thibeault estate petitioned the Probate Court to have mayor Peter Kelly removed as executor. Two more heirs have told the court they intend to sign onto the petition in coming days. Readers will recall that The Coast revealed in February that Kelly had removed over $160,000 […]
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The long, strange story of Mary Thibeault’s property
According to documents filed with the court by Halifax mayor Peter Kelly in 2005, Mary Thibeault’s estate was valued at $503,730.37, almost all of it in cash and bonds. That amount, plus the $160,000 or so that Kelly had transferred from Thibeault’s personal bank account to his and his son’s control (see “A trust betrayed,” […]
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Interview with The Current
I was interviewed this morning by Anna Maria Tremonit, with CBC’s The Current, about mayor Peter Kelly and the Thibeault estate. Here the interview here.
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A trust betrayed: Peter Kelly and the estate of Mary Thibeault
When Halifax resident Mary Thibeault died in her St. Petersburg, Florida, winter home, she left an estate valued at over half a million dollars and a will naming 13 people and five charities as beneficiaries. One of the beneficiaries was Halifax mayor Peter Kelly. Thibeault called Kelly a friend and valued his judgement: In addition […]
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Peter Kelly continues to mis-execute
As of Tuesday, mayor Peter Kelly has still not completed his duties as executor of the estate of Mary Thibeault. As The Coast revealed in an exclusive report earlier this year—see “Peter Kelly’s Failure of Will,” March 24—the 91-year-old Thibeault died in her St. Petersburg, Florida home on December 7, 2004. A former Bedford resident, […]