When BP named its exploratory well in the Mississippi Canyon the Macondo Prospect after the doomed fictional town of Macondo from Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, that alone should have raised alarm bells. The story of seven generations of the Buendía family are set in the Colombian town, which is beset by […]
An obsessive fixation for cheap decoration, wallpaper edition
Morning File, Friday, March 23, 2018
News 1. aioTV “The tech company aioTV has ceased operations, and Innovacorp has lost its entire $1.7 million investment in the company,” I reported yesterday. The provincial government has something like $100 million invested as equity stakes in various companies (far more has been loaned, granted, and rebated). Those investments first came through Nova Scotia […]