July 12, 2023 at 11:51 am
Editor’s Note: I thought I’d revisit a few stories I’ve covered this year to see how things have been coming along. Blowin’ in the wind Capitalize Albany Corporation (which does not, sadly, exist purely to stamp out lowercase spellings of the New York State capital but is the city’sRead More
June 30, 2023 at 10:30 am
Local elites I heard Alexander Sammon of Slate magazine interviewed about this May 2023 piece he did on the annual convention of the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) or, as he put it, of “unsung Republican heavyweights.” Sammon was a guest on This Machine Kills, one of the podcasts inRead...
June 28, 2023 at 12:51 pm
Tuesday’s budget deliberations by CBRM council actually followed a regular council meeting that began at 9:30 yesterday morning, but I’m going to deal with the budget first because somebody has to deal with the CBRM budget in a timely manner and it certainly hasn’t been CBRM council. Councilors, who votedRead More
June 28, 2023 at 12:49 pm
Swarmio Media Holdings Inc sought creditor protection in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice last week. The Court agreed to some of its initial requests (it stayed proceedings until July 1, appointed a monitor, agreed to a debtor-in-possession or DIP loan) and scheduled a “comeback” hearing for June 30, atRead More
June 28, 2023 at 12:47 pm
How it began The photo shows then-opposition leader Tim Houston striding purposefully toward the Supreme Court of NS where, according to his accompanying tweet, he: …filed an appeal…to fight for answers. The Liberals have been hiding information from Nova Scotians for too long. While this lawsuit focuses on theRead More
June 23, 2023 at 10:48 am
Ayn Rand Revisited I went through a brief period in high school when I thought Ayn Rand was someone you had to read to be considered well read (I blame a Sydney Academy debater who used to quote her regularly) and since being considered well-read was pretty much my life’sRead...
June 21, 2023 at 12:06 pm
An investigation by Nova Scotia Auditor General Kim Adair has revealed “gross mismanagement” of public funds in excess of $1 million by Island Employment Association (IEA), the now-defunct Cape Breton third-party employment services provider whose chief funder was the Department of Labour and Advanced Education (LAE), now Labour, Skills &Read More
June 21, 2023 at 12:04 pm
CBRM council agreed unanimously on Monday to apply for contribution funding under the federal government’s $4 billion Housing Accelerator Fund (HAF). I missed the council meeting during which the application was discussed (I’d hoped to be able to watch it before press time, but the video has yet to beRead More
June 16, 2023 at 10:36 am
TV News I decided to write something about Eastlink dropping 34 channels owned by Corus Entertainment because, although I do not have cable TV myself, I know someone who does—and who probably watches HGTV and Food Network, both slated to go as of June 27, more than anything other thanRead...
June 14, 2023 at 12:42 pm
Water/Wastewater Commission Greg Campbell (no relation, a point I feel obliged to underline regularly for his sake), manager of technical services for the CBRM’s Water Utility, appeared before CBRM council last night and I realized that I had dropped the ball in my coverage of his issue, which is theRead More