Former finance minister Graham Steele is with us as we dissect the NDP government’s collapse back in the 2013 provincial election. Then, award-winning journalist Selena Ross chronicles the story of Rehtaeh Parsons and her time working with a dream team of reporters and editors at the Herald. All this plus Halifax baristas unionize, Joachim Stroink celebrates […]
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25 for 25: episode 2009
Former Coast news editor Tim Bousquet joins us to talk about the day the sewage treatment plant failed and what lessons were learned at city hall. Then we get into HRM By Design and Tim’s early days live-tweeting council. Plus Paul McCartney comes to town for what’s sure to be a successful concert, chef Ray […]
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Coast 25: 30 of the most important things we’ve written
“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 […]
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Coast 25: 46 of the weirdest things we’ve ever published
The prophet in Clayton Park Bill Deagle says he knows things they don’t want you to know about 9/11, the Oklahoma City bombing and other government secrets. Now he lives in suburban Halifax, with an internet radio broadcast and orders from god to get the truth out there. Celine Dion’s cancelled Halifax show After the […]
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Wednesday 4 things you have to know right now!
[Image-1] 1 Epic troll Peter Kelly is back in the news, this time after conducting an external review of Charlottetown city council’s pay for some reason. The non-tendered review was conducted by Westlock, Alberta’s most famous CAO after the PEI city’s government “reached out to numerous people in the Charlottetown area to do the review, […]
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Peter Kelly lets loose with his wildest fantasies
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 Westlock, Alberta is so barren these days. The town is still hibernating from winter’s last asphyxiating embrace. The tractor museum’s not even open until May. In that celibate desert, Peter Kelly has had plenty of time to think. An orgy of idle notions allegedly swirl around in his head. “What’s for dinner tonight?” “Need […]
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Peter Kelly moves to Alberta for work
[Image-1] The booming Albertan job market has taken another of Nova Scotia’s sons from its undulating bosom. The bright lights, big money of Westlock County has proven too good an opportunity to pass up for ex-mayor Peter Kelly. As published in the Westlock News, the award-winning weekly Westlock newspaper (which also serves the village of […]
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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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Peter Kelly and other Thibeault heirs come to agreement
There was a hearing at Probate Court scheduled for today, expected to last all day, to hear the heirs’ challenge to former mayor Peter Kelly’s accounting of the Mary Thibeault estate. But at the last moment the hearing was cancelled, because the heirs and Kelly have come to a settlement. That settlement, however, still must […]
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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 […]