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PR coup: Maritime Launch Services signs agreement with St. Francis Xavier University

January 17, 2020 By Joan Baxter

Later today, St. Francis Xavier University will sign a memorandum of understanding with Maritime Launch Services. For a company with some disreputable partners, and which is still searching high and low for investors to bankroll its proposed spaceport in Canso, to be hooking up with a reputable Canadian university looks like quite a PR coup...

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Filed Under: Education, Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Action Against Canso Spaceport (AACS), Canso spaceport, Cyclone 4 rocket, dimethylhydrazine, Don Bowser, Kevin Wamsley, Marie Lumsden, Maritime Launch Services (MLS), Mulroney Hall, Premier Stephen McNeil, Richard Isnor, St. Francis Xavier University (StFX), Steve Matier, United Paradyne, Yuzhmash, Yuzhnoye

Maritime Launch Services and its private/public servants

One government bureaucrat sent a nasty email to a CBC reporter. Others had rude things to say about the Halifax Examiner. And Stephen McNeil met with MLS and it Ukrainian "partners" even though they aren't registered as lobbyists.

November 5, 2019 By Joan Baxter 3 Comments

It’s not the first time I’ve waded through many hundreds of pages of correspondence released by a government under a FOIPOP (Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy) request, but it is the first time that reading the correspondence made me feel slightly queasy, like a voyeur witnessing unhealthy relationships developing between uncritical and subservient […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Investigation, News, Province House Tagged With: Action Against the Canso Spaceport (AACS), Alec Bruce, Barry Carroll, Canso Area Development Association (CADA), Canso spaceport, Cyclone 4 rocket, David Jackson, David Walsh, Don Bowser, Ecology Action Centre (EAC), Frances Willick, Frank Sander, Gordon MacDonald, Harold Roberts, Harvey Doane, Janet MacMillan, Jennifer Henderson, Jim Geddes, John Kearney, Joseph Hasay, lobbyist registry, Marie Lumsden, Maritime Launch Services (MLS), Matthew Dunn, Michael Byers, Minister Lloyd Hines, MP Alaina Lockhart, MP Roger Cuzner, NATIONAL Public Relations, Nova Scotia Business Inc. (NSBI), Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil, Steve Matier, Sylvain Laporte, United Paradyne, Yaroslav Pustovyi, Yuzhmash, Yuzhnoye

The cruise ship industry disses the Yarmouth ferry

Morning File, Monday, August 19, 2019

August 19, 2019 By Tim Bousquet Leave a Comment

News 1. Health care photo ops “So last week, 10 out of 37 hospital emergency departments in Nova Scotia were closed for at least some part of the week,” writes Stephen Kimber: While our healthcare crises multiply, our leaders stage photo opportunities that resemble trying to slap Band-Aids on the backsides of rampaging elephants. Whatever […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Abdilahi Elmi, Bar Harbor, Bill McKibben, biomass, cruise ships Bar harbor, Cyclone 4 rocket, Don Bowser, El Jones, entangled right whale, Fatuma Abdi, fires South End, Icarus Report August 19 2019, Jordan Gill, Maritime Launch Services Ltd., Martha Paynter, Meghan Groff, MP Andy Fillmore, North Sea cod, Olena Holubeva, Peter B. de Selding, Robert Wright, Ukrainian space industry, United Paradyne, Yarmouth ferry, Yuzhmash, Yuzhnoye

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Brian Borcherdt. Photo: Anna Edwards-Borcherdt

Brian Borcherdt came of age in Yarmouth in the 1990s. When he arrived in Halifax, the city’s famous music scene was already waning, and worse, the music he made was rejected by the cool kids anyway. After decades away from Nova Scotia, he and his young family have settled in the Annapolis Valley, where he’ll zoom in to chat with Tara about his band Holy Fuck’s endlessly delayed tour, creating the Dependent Music collective, and the freedom and excitement of the improvised music he’s making now. Plus: Bringing events back in 2021.

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Uncover: Dead Wrong

In 1995, Brenda Way was brutally murdered behind a Dartmouth apartment building. In 1999, Glen Assoun was found guilty of the murder. He served 17 years in prison, but steadfastly maintained his innocence. In 2019, Glen Assoun was fully exonerated.

Halifax Examiner founder and investigative journalist Tim Bousquet has followed the story of Glen Assoun's wrongful conviction for over five years. Now, Bousquet tells that story as host of Season 7 of the CBC podcast series Uncover: Dead Wrong.

Click here to go to listen to the podcast, or search for CBC Uncover on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast aggregator.

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