The province’s primary economic development arm, Nova Scotia Business, Inc., announced today that it is dropping another $800,000 into Intelivote Systems, the Dartmouth-based internet voting firm. That brings NSBI’s total investment in Intelivote to $2.8 million. The additional funds will be use in part for “five or six enhancements” to Intelivote’s voting software, says Dean […]
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In-equity stakes
The Nova Scotian government is so dependent on VLT revenue that it has recently adopted a gaming strategy that papers over VLT addiction. The new rules will require that a machine called Gameplan be attached to VLTs, and this will supposedly cause gamblers to realize how much money they’re losing, and therefore slow down. Critics, […]
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Dan Leger hates his readers
There are lots of reasons why the daily newspaper industry is collapsing, but one is simply this: They hate their readers. I mean, why should average people choose to pay for something that insults them at every turn? But time and again, daily newspapers are siding with the comfortable over the afflicted, the bosses over the workers, the rich over the struggling, so it’s no wonder the afflicted, the workers and the struggling—that is, most people—aren’t interested in buying a newspaper. Take, for instance, this morning’s piece in the Chronicle-Herald by editor Dan Leger, which pretty much slaps working people
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Companies connected with Nova Scotia Business, Inc board member James Kehoe to receive $585,688 in rebates approved by NSBI.
In March, while James Kehoe was a board member at Nova Scotia Business, Inc., the province’s business development agency, that board approved over a half million dollars in payroll rebates for companies associated with Kehoe. Those payroll rebates were approved by the Dexter government on July 27. James Kehoe’s four-year term as a NSBI board […]