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The Unique Solution: Nearly the entire $5.6 million invested by Nova Scotia Business, Inc. has evaporated

October 31, 2014 By Tim Bousquet 9 Comments

Tanya Shaw, a graduate of Dalhousie University’s Costume Studies program, created Unique Solutions Design, Ltd. in 1994. Shaw has written that the company was “originally founded to provide custom sewing patterns tailored to fit its customers’ individual measurements.” Soon Shaw was being recognized for her business accuum. In 2000, the accounting firm Ernst & Young named her […]

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Divest Dal gets receptive hearing for ending investments in fossil fuel companies

October 24, 2014 By Tim Bousquet

by Rachel Ward Dalhousie University could be the first university in Canada to end its investments in fossil fuel companies. The debate, according to a recent report from the Board of Governors’ Investment Committee, is split between wanting to support sustainability and not wanting to alienate major companies that fund the school’s research. A final...

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Community groups mull appealing St. Patrick’s–Alexandra ruling to Supreme Court of Canada

October 17, 2014 By Tim Bousquet

by Hilary Beaumont In the end, it will likely be a court and not the city that decides the fate of the St. Patrick’s–Alexandra property. Last week, the province’s highest court, the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal, sided with JONO Developments in the company’s bid for the school property. Long battle for the school site The...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: JONO Developments, Margaret Casey, Ron Pink, St. Patrick’s Alexandra

Is a botched Halifax police investigation being hidden behind a proposed publication ban?

October 15, 2014 By Tim Bousquet

Note: This article contains descriptions of violence that may upset some readers. There was an all-day hearing at the Law Courts building in Halifax yesterday, as Justice James Chipman heard an application for a publication ban on a report written by a lawyer at the Criminal Convictions Review Board. That CCRB report found that “there may be...

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Affidavit: Serial killer Michael McGray knew murder victim Brenda Way and lived just blocks from where her body was found

October 9, 2014 By Tim Bousquet

An affidavit filed with the court in 2006 claimed that serial killer Michael McGray knew murder victim Brenda Way and lived just blocks away from Way’s apartment, where her body was discovered. In 1999, Glen Assoun was convicted of Way’s murder. Assoun has always maintained his innocence, and a justice department lawyer recently wrote that...

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Community groups out, Jono Developments back in: Appeal court reverses St. Patrick’s Alexandra ruling

October 9, 2014 By Tim Bousquet

By a 2-1 vote, the Nova Scotia Court of Appeals has ruled in favour of Jono Developments’ appeal of the St. Patrick’s Alexandra decision. There’s a long and tortured history to this issue, which can be summed up as follows: September, 2000: HRM council adopts surplus school procedure, requiring that such school sites first be offered to...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: St. Patrick’s Alexandra

In Whose Backyard? A look at environmental racism in Nova Scotia

October 9, 2014 By Tim Bousquet

by Hilary Beaumont It’s a story that hits the heart, and that’s why he wants to tell it. Jonathan Beadle lost his cousin to cancer. They were like brothers. It was a rare kind of cancer. “They often say that to anyone who has fallen ill in my community,” Beadle says. His cousin had tumours...

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Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: Boat Harbour, Environmental Racism, Jonathan Beadle, Lincolnviille, Mary Desmond

Halifax’s deck collapse: See what other properties are owned by landlord Darin Sweet

October 6, 2014 By Tim Bousquet

A deck collapse last month in Halifax’s south end at 921 Brussels Street sent six people to the hospital. In the aftermath of the horrific incident, Paul Pettipas, the CEO of the Nova Scotia Home Builders’ Association, told the Chronicle Herald that “in my opinion there was no maintenance done on this deck and the landlord’s responsible.” That comment...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, Investigation, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: Darin Sweet, deck collapse

Chronicle Herald apologizes, reverses course and cancels opt-out subscription increase

October 1, 2014 By Tim Bousquet 3 Comments

Monday, the Chronicle Herald sent notice to subscribers that it would soon start charging for its eight-times-monthly magazine, which has previously been a bonus for regular subscribers. But the charge for the magazine was going to be added to subscribers’ bills without their positive assent. To avoid the extra charge, subscribers would have to opt-out via an […]

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The Chronicle Herald won’t win any friends with its insidious “opt-out” charging

September 29, 2014 By Tim Bousquet 3 Comments

Just months after a 15 percent increase in subscription rates, the Chronicle Herald is again increasing rates, this time by charging extra for its magazine. The company explained the rate increase in a message it emailed to subscribers (including the Examiner) today: Starting with the October 25, 2014 edition of Herald Magazine, The Chronicle Herald will […]

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