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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

Ukrainian corruption and the Canso spaceport

Morning File, Tuesday, November 12, 2019

November 12, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 3 Comments

November subscription drive I was going to write a long thing this morning in support of our subscription drive, but got pulled away trying to make sense of the Ukrainian space industry. So I’ll keep it short. We need your money. Thanks. News 1. Waiting for Fitch “Bob Dylan didn’t need a weatherman to know […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alexander Degtyarev, Andrew McKelvey, Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ship (AOPS), Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon, Brett Ruskin, Canso spaceport, Cheryl Gardner, climate emergency, Corey Rogers, crane incident, Daniel Fraser, Don Bowser, Ekatirine Keramaris, Firefly Aerospace, Heritage Trust of Nova Scotia, Irving Shipbuilding, Jack Sorbo, John Ball, John Misenor House, Lead Structural Formwork Ltd, Linda Pannozzo, Maritime Launch Services (MLS), Natasha Pace, Pavel Degtyarenko, Premier Stephen McNeil, Raymond Shannon, Roger Eckoldt, Steven Lutes, Ukrainian corruption, 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

Halifax CAO Jacques Dubé is raising money for charity; this is a problem

Morning File, Tuesday, August 6, 2019

August 6, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 13 Comments

News 1. Spaceport “I hadn’t even made it into Canso when I happened upon the first person willing and eager to speak her mind on the proposed spaceport that Maritime Launch Services wants to construct in the picturesque community at the very end of Highway 16,” writes Joan Baxter: In a charming restaurant a few […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Airbnb, Alex Halef, Armco Capital Inc, Armour Group, Banc Investments, Canso spaceport, CAO Jacques Dubé, Cape Canaveral, charity, Chincoteague Museum, David Darrow, Don Bowser, Frances Fares, fundraisers, Halifax Harbour Swim, Hector Jacques, Jack Julian, Jim Spatz, KBRS, Kevin Doran, King’s Wharf, Lawen Group, living wage, Maritime Launch Services (MLS), Misty, Ronald L'Esperance, Royer Thompson, Scott McCrea, Stephen Matier, United Way

Opposition to Canso spaceport grows

“The government of Nova Scotia and the government of Canada are partnering with a dubious, nearly-bankrupt Ukrainian company using Cold-war technology," says Michael Byers, an expert in space law.

August 5, 2019 By Joan Baxter 5 Comments

I hadn’t even made it into Canso when I happened upon the first person willing and eager to speak her mind on the proposed spaceport that Maritime Launch Services wants to construct in the picturesque community at the very end of Highway 16, an area that boasts spectacular coastline, one ocean-side provincial park and another […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Action Against Canso Spaceport (AACS), Alicia Rhynold, Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (CEAA), Canso Area Development Association (CADA), Canso spaceport, Chris Surette, Chrystia Freeland, Divya Shah, Don Bowser, Geraint Breeze, Harold Roberts, hydrazine, Jan-Sebastian La Pierre, Jean-Frédéric Lafaille, Jim Geddes, John Hearn, John Isella, June Jarvis, Karen McKendry, Katherine O'Halloran, Marie Lumsden, Maritime Launch Services (MLS), Michael Byers, Minister Catherine McKenna, Minister Gordon Wilson, Minister Lloyd Hines, Minister Margaret Miller, MP Alaina Lockhart, MP Darren Fisher, MP Roger Cuzner, MP Sean Fraser, Ray White, spaceport lobbying, Steve Matier, Sussex Strategy Group, United Paradyne, Yuzhmash, Yuzhnoye

A mega development on Lake Banook shows that the Centre Plan is a cruel joke

Morning File, Wednesday, April 10, 2019

April 10, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 9 Comments

News 1. Mercury, Canso Chemicals, Northern Pulp Mill Facilities associated with Northern Pulp Mill’s proposed effluent pipe are immediately adjacent to a mercury-contaminated toxic waste site left over from the Canso Chemicals operation. Joan Baxter explains: The Canso Chemicals plant opened in 1970, and for the next 22 years used large amounts of mercury to […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andy Filmore, Anthony Leblanc, Bob Bjerke, Canso launchpad, Centre Plan, Councillor Sam Austin, Don Bowser, Glory Hole, HRM By Design, Joe Ramia, Lake Banook development, Maritime Launch Services, Nova Centre, Queen’s Marque, South Barrington Historic District, stadium, YMCA, Yuzhmash, Yuzhnoye

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Mo Kenney. Photo: Matt Williams

Episode #18 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne is published.

Mo Kenney’s new record Covers is a perfect winter companion — songs from across the rock spectrum that she’s pared down to piano or guitar and turned them into sad ballads. She joins Tara to talk about choosing and arranging them, and opens up for a frank discussion of the alcohol dependency it took a pandemic for her to confront. Plus: Movies are back (again).

This episode is available today only for premium subscribers; to become a premium subscriber, click here, and join the select group of arts and entertainment supporters for just $5/month. Everyone else will have to wait until tomorrow to listen to it.

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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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