The most controversial item on CBRM council’s agenda last night was dropped like a hot potato just hours before the meeting. The initial version of the agenda included a staff recommendation that the municipality sell 1,002 acres of land (in the form of five adjacent lots in the Coxheath area)Read More

Having gone on at length about an item that was dropped from the agenda of last night’s CBRM council meeting, I will now review some of the items that actually were discussed—but I warn you, that dropped item will haunt my coverage like the ghost of Hamlet’s father.   Wetlands/BiosphereRead...

Developer Joneljim Construction has come to CBRM council twice recently, asking for modifications to the 2012 purchase and sale agreement under which the company bought the 120-hectare Cossitt Heights Industrial Park on Sydney’s Upper Prince Street with the stated intention of turning it into a $51 million residential subdivision. JoneljimRead More

Meet the landlord Nicole Sullivan has a story in the Post about a CBRM landlord who has informed his tenants he will “no longer be supplying oil” to their units because “the costs have quadrupled and this will no longer be part of your rental income.” (I think he meansRead More

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

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...

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

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

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

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...