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UARB fails to protect whistle-blowers, punish wrong-doing bus company

The UARB decision doesn’t appear to punish Stock Transportation for firing its whistle-blowers or do anything to get Bishop and LePage their jobs back, let alone making the company pay a real price for its egregious behaviour as the province's largest designated operator of buses intended to carry school children.

November 19, 2017 By Stephen Kimber

Last week, the province’s Utility and Review Board issued a scathing, 180-page decision accusing Nova Scotia bus operator Stock Transportation of “repeatedly operat[ing] its public passenger vehicles, including its school buses, as it wished and contrary to the Acts, rules, regulations, its licenses, and orders; even drivers’ safety regulations.” Stock not only ran an unlicensed...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Education, Featured, Subscribers only Tagged With: Andrew LePage, bus drivers fired, Gin Yee, Kelly Bishop, National Express Company (NEC), Stephen Kimber, Stock COO Terri Lowe, Stock Transportation, Troy Phinney, Utility and Review Board (UARB)

The Wrongful Conviction of Glen Assoun

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.

Click here to read the Halifax Examiner's extensive reporting on the case.

DEAD WRONG

A botched police investigation and a police coverup shed light on the murders of dozens of women in Nova Scotia.

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