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Here’s the stadium lie: it will pay for itself

Morning File, Wednesday, February 6, 2019

February 6, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 11 Comments

News 1. Here’s the stadium lie: it will pay for itself There’s a big long Canadian Press article written by reporter Dan Ralph that quotes Anthony Leblanc at length about all things Atlantic Schooners, but mostly about his plans to play in Moncton while he strong-arms Halifax into building him a stadium. Then Ralph gets […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Amanda Jess, Anthony Leblanc, Atlantic Schooners, blackface, Blake Jackson trial, Brett Bundale, CFL stadium, Charles Vinick, Dalhousie Faculty Association, Dan Ralph, El Jones, Justice Christa Brothers, Lawrence Story, Lori Marino, Peter MacKinnon, Ralph Northam, Sean McCarroll, sexual assault, stadium financing, Tax Increment Financing (TIF), Thomas Singleton, Valor SR, Whale Sanctuary Project

Halifax CFL team: the Richard Butts connection

Morning File, Friday, November 2, 2018

November 2, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 7 Comments

November subscription drive Today, I could write a long thing telling you about how important your subscription is, or you could read what I wrote yesterday and today I’ll just post a picture of a cute dog: Your dog can also wear a Halifax Examiner T-shirt, but only if your dog buys an annual subscription. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Allscripts, Anthony Leblanc, anti-Black racism and the CFL, Canada Games Centre renovation, Cerner, CFL team, Chief Bob Gloade, Clayton Developments, Evelyn White, Health records contract, Irving Shipyard, John McPhee, Maritime Football Limited, Mayor Mike Savage, Millbrook First Nation, Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA), Pam Berman, Paul Schneidereit, Richard Butts, ship maintenance contracts, subscription drive, Terry Jones

And the stadium financing cup-and-pea, smoke-and-mirrors game begins

Morning File, Wednesday, October 31, 2018

October 31, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 5 Comments

News 1. Stadium I was thinking that this morning I’d have a lot of details related to yesterday’s council’s discussion of the proposed stadium, but I’m afraid there’s not much new to report — there weren’t too many revelations yesterday. For background, read what I wrote Monday. There were, however, a lot of councillor questions […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Aaron Beswick, Anthony Leblanc, CAO Jacques Dubé, CFL stadium proposal, Councillor Sam Austin, Halloween treat tampering, Innovacorp, Malcolm Fraser, Maritime Football League Partnership (MFLP), Nova Centre, rolling papers monopoly, Roy brothers, Stephen Archibald and candy wrappers, Tax Increment Financing (TIF)

The stadium proposal deconstructed

Morning File, Monday, October 29, 2018

October 29, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 7 Comments

News 1. Stadium Tuesday, Halifax council will take up the proposal for a football stadium at Shannon Park. Specifically, council is being asked to direct staff to undertake a business case analysis of the stadium proposal and to identify financing options and legislative changes that would be required to make the proposal a reality. There’s […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andrew Barroway, Anthony Leblanc, Bruce Bowser, Canada Lands, CFL stadium proposal, Chris Miller, Clayton Developments, container ports modernization, Darrell Jackson, David Baker, Denise Schofield., Dennis Welch, Gary Bettman, Gary Drummond, Jerry Blackwood, Joanna Cagan, Kelly Denty, Maritime Football League Partnership (MFLP), Millbrook First Nation, MP Darren Fisher, Neil deMause, Nova Centre, Pam Berman, Tax Increment Financing (TIF)

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

Stadium economic impact projections are nonsense: Morning File, Friday, January 12, 2018

January 12, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 10 Comments

News 1. Accessible transportation Examiner transportation columnist Erica Butler looks at two problems with accessible transportation — an ever-shrinking fleet of accessible taxis and an ever-increasing demand for Access-A-Bus — and sees a solution: Gerry Post thinks there’s a way to fix both these problems with one move: start contracting accessible taxis to take on […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Anthony Leblanc, autism, Deloitte, Dylan Ames, Emma Smith, Gardner Pinfold, Marieke Walsh, Mary Campbell, Maureen Brennan, no snow, Nursing home homicide, polishing bullshit, Richard Woodbury, Stadium and economic impact projections, The Yelp and Trip Advisor marketing war, Trade Centre Limited, Trevor Tombe

Anthony LeBlanc’s history of playing stadium hardball: Morning File, Monday, January 8, 2018

January 6, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 4 Comments

News 1. Poor parenting “Consider the case Mr. S and Ms. C, and their toddler, D,” writes Stephen Kimber: And the question of how much of what gets referred to as poor parenting is simply the result of being parents who are poor. And what that means — or should mean — for public policy. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Anjuli Patel, Anthony Leblanc, Arizona Coyotes, Bruce Browser, CFL franchise in Halifax, Chronicle Herald series about CFL franchise, Dave Stewart, Financing a new stadium, fish farms, Francis Campbell, Gary Drummond, Neil deMause, Peter Kelly's little helper, Scott Messervey

Here come the public subsidies for a CFL team: Morning File, Thursday, December 28, 2017

December 28, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 13 Comments

News 1. Weather There’s weather today. 2. Sexual history and anonymity Yesterday, the courts published Judge Anne Derrick’s decision on whether testimony on Catherine Campbell’s sexual history would be allowed in the preliminary inquiry of the murder charge against Christopher Garnier. Derrick’s ruling is complicated, but the gist of it is she ruled that Campbell’s sexual history […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Aly Thomson, Anthony Leblanc, Bruce Wark, CFL franchise in Halifax, CFL stadium proposal, Christopher Garnier, Francis Campbell, Judge Anne Derrick, Justice Joshua Arnold, Saint John garbage transfer to Nova Scotia, sexual history and anonymity

Chasing the stadium dream, part Nth: Morning File, Monday, November 27, 2017

November 27, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 21 Comments

News 1. Glen Assoun is moving to Halifax “Glen Assoun is moving to Halifax,” I reported Friday: In 1999, Assoun was convicted of the 1996 murder of his former girlfriend, Brenda Way. Assoun always maintained his innocence, but spent 16 years in prison for the murder. Assoun is the subject of the first three parts […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Anthony Leblanc, CFL franchise in Halifax, CFL stadium skepticism, Cory Funk, Devin Heroux, Glen Assoun moving to Halifax, stadium studies

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