” I just got off the phone with the Premier’s Office.” Halifax Atlantic Liberal candidate Brendan Maguire was close to giddy as he made that statement on a Facebook video Wednesday evening. Maguire went on to promise residents in the Harrietsfield neighbourhood who have spent 10 years fighting for clean water after their wells were contaminated […]
The return of Nova Scotia’s spoils system: Morning File, Thursday, February 2, 2017
News 1. NSCAD to accept students stranded by Trump’s immigration order “NSCAD University will be among a group of Canadian art schools accepting international students slated to go to U.S. schools now left stranded by President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration,” reports Chris Lambie for the Halifax Examiner. This article is behind the Examiner’s paywall […]
Is the province out $200 million? Morning File, Thursday, January 26, 2017
News 1. Atlantic provinces must repay “hundreds of millions” of dollars to Ottawa Charlottetown Guardian reporter Teresa Wright drops a bombshell this morning: Ottawa is asking all four Atlantic provinces to repay hundreds of millions of dollars in harmonized sales tax revenues the finance department says it overpaid to the region. The Guardian has learned Prince Edward Island, […]