1. Armoured vehicle This is a short Morning File today because I was busy at court most of the day yesterday (see below) and because I’m kind of riled up about the city’s purchase of an armoured vehicle for the police. I wrote a little Twitter rant about the latter while I was eating dinner […]
Ships, Conservatives, turbines, gold, and forests
Morning File, Thursday, August 23, 2018
Hello, I’m Joan Baxter, Nova Scotian journalist and author, wondering how on earth Tim does this every morning. News 1. Ships start here, but when? Jennifer Henderson investigates the six-month (and counting) delay in the completion of the first ship in the multi-billion dollar Halifax Shipyard contract in a new article for the Examiner: The […]
What’s going on with LED Roadway Lighting?
The company has received at least $22 million in public money, but no one will tell the public what the status of the company is.
Sometimes, chasing a story that runs into a brick wall can be revealing. Two weeks ago, I decided to do an update on LED Roadway Lighting, the Nova Scotian company completing the changeover of the Halifax Regional Municipality’s 37,000 street lights into fixtures that consume sixty per cent less energy and are supposed to deliver...
Halifax Transit – Boldly Moving People Somewhere They’ve Never Gone Before: Examineradio, episode #54
We welcome Halifax Examiner transportation columnist Erica Butler to the show this week to talk about the recently released Moving Forward Together report. Will this plan to revamp Halifax Transit better serve transit users, or just piss people off? Also, the Yarmouth Ferry was officially greenlit this week. Almost $33-million has been set aside by the […]
FIFA Corruption scandal: the Nova Scotia connection
Canover Watson — now under arrest on fraud, corruption and money laundering charges, and also under investigation for corruption related to the FIFA scandal — was managing director of a firm that received over $2 million in payroll rebates from Nova Scotia Business Inc. Corruption at FIFA is no surprise. Reporter Andrew Jennings first detailed the corruption on the BBC’s Panorama show in...
How Nova Scotia caters to tax-dodging offshore banks
NSBI subsidizes tax haven-based companies in exchange for few jobs: author By Rachel Ward Nova Scotia Business Inc. (NSBI) got quite the critique Friday by Université de Montreal professor Alain Deneault. “It’s politically very surprising,” said Deneault. “It’s a concern to see that a Canadian province is so convenient (for) offshore entities that exist only...
Chronicle Herald fails to declare columnist’s conflict of interest
By publishing a business column without revealing the financial interests the columnist has with the companies he writes about, the Chronicle Herald is in clear violation of widely accepted ethical rules in journalism. Peter Moreira writes the “Entrevestor” column for the Chronicle Herald. The column appears three times a week, and profiles start up companies. Moreira also...