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The people lobbying the province for a stadium aren’t registered as lobbyists

Morning File, Friday, June 15, 2018

June 15, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 7 Comments

News 1. Stadium lobbyists aren’t registered as lobbyists Canadian Press reporter Judy Owen caught up with CFL commissioner Randy Ambrosie at the Winnipeg–Edmonton game last night (Edmonton prevailed, 33-30), and Ambrosie went on about the possibility of a Halifax team: “The conversations between ourselves and the Maritime Football group continue,” Ambrosie said. “We’re doing work on their business […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andy Filmore, Anthony Leblanc, CFL team, Cogswell Interchange plan, Dalhousie’s bunghole, Gardiner Expressway, Judy Owen, Keith Doucette, Lobbyists Registration Act, Maritime Football Limited, Mayor Mike Savage, modernist landscape, Natalie Wong, Premier Stephen McNeil, Randy Ambrosie, Stadium lobbyists, Stephen Archibald and Post Office trees

Smiling bastards and a necropolis nursery: Morning File, Monday, October 3, 2016

October 3, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 17 Comments

News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Upper Canadian concrete and glass right down to the water line In “Fisherman’s Wharf,” his lament for a disappearing Halifax, Stan Rogers sang: I looked from the Citadel down to the Narrows and asked what it’s coming to I saw Upper Canadian concrete and glass […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andy Filmore, Anthony Kowalski, Armour Group, Ben McCrea, Bill Davies, Brenden Sommerhalder, children's graveyard, Chris Poole, David Irish, Design Review Committee, Graham Steele, Hangman's Beach, HRM By Design, Irvine Carvery, Lindell Smith, living wage ordinance, Marty Leger, Michael Lightstone, Patrick Murphy, Queen’s Marque, Rachel Ward, Todd McCallum, Tom Traves, Waterfront Development Corporation, WDC

Your name here: Which company will jump at the opportunity to be associated with obliterating the Morse’s Teas sign?

July 14, 2014 By Tim Bousquet 1 Comment

  What company will jump at the opportunity to be associated with obliterating a piece of Halifax history? We’ll soon find out: A banner atop of what was once the Morse’s Teas sign announces that a lucky tenant of the building can put its company name on the historic site. Readers will recall that on […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Commentary, Featured, News Tagged With: Andy Filmore, Morse's Teas, Starfish Properties

The Convention Centre Tower Play

May 4, 2014 By Tim Bousquet Leave a Comment

Did Halifax’s dream of being a world financial capital help Joe Ramia’s proposal, with an office tower on top, beat a higher-rated plan for the Cogswell Interchange? by Tim Bousquet This article first appeared in The Coast, on November 25, 2010. On Tuesday, February 26, 2008, Nova Scotia conquered Wall Street. That morning a chartered […]

Filed Under: Investigation Tagged With: Andy Filmore, Convention centre, Financial Centre, Joe Ramia, Peter Kelly, Rodney MacDonald, Trade Centre Limited, Wall Street

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