Tanya Shaw, a graduate of Dalhousie University’s Costume Studies program, created Unique Solutions Design, Ltd. in 1994. Shaw has written that the company was “originally founded to provide custom sewing patterns tailored to fit its customers’ individual measurements.” Soon Shaw was being recognized for her business accuum. In 2000, the accounting firm Ernst & Young named her […]
Why “Corporate Social Responsibility” Is a Crock
By Larry Haiven Back when I was in the MBA program at the University of Alberta in 1984, a wily professor put the cat among the pigeons. He asked us students to consider whether corporations should forget about charity and good works and simply…pay their taxes. Businesses, he argued, were good at making money, not […]
Graham Steele and the failure of politics
[Disclosure: As a reporter, I haven’t much directly covered the legislature, and don’t believe I had met Graham Steele in person until this April, when I asked him to be part of the promotional video that launched the Halifax Examiner, and he agreed. He very kindly gave me an evening of his time, and said nice...
Howard Epstein: What I Learned About Graham Steele
编者按:前MLA霍华德·爱泼斯坦written the following review of his former colleague Graham Steele’s book, What I Learned About Politics. The Examiner will discuss both Steele’s book and Epstein’s review in a post to be published soon. What I Learned About Graham Steele by Howard Epstein “I have nothing to say, and I am […]
What’s behind the management shake-up at CEED?
Heather Spidell, the president and CEO of the Centre for Entrepreneurship Education and Development, no longer works at the organization, but no one will say why. CEED was founded by the provincial government in 1993, with the mission of “building a vibrant community that promotes the financial and social benefits of entrepreneurship, creating a better...
Final construction permit issued for Nova Centre
The city has issued the last building permit needed to construct the Nova Centre. A project as large and as complex as the Nova Centre must obtain a number of permits—in this case 13. They range from relatively minor permits removing existing sewer lateral connections to the city’s main, to two blasting permits, to four temporary...
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...
Thiels: The province is helping Joe Ramia poach our tenants
By giving Joe Ramia’s Nova Centre project an exemption to the city’s planning laws, the province unfairly gave Ramia the ability to compete for tenants now housed in Thiel family properties, says a brief filed with the court. The Thiels own several properties in the financial district, including the BMO building, the TD Centre, and the Royal Bank Tower. Collectively,...
Department of Environment fails to provide legally required annual review
In 2007, the Nova Scotian legislature passed an ambitious piece of legislation called the Environmental Goals and Sustainable Prosperity Act, EGSPA, which is called “eggs-puh” in wonk circles. EGSPA was spearheaded by then-Environment Minister Mark Parent, a preacher turned politician who represents the best of the old-school of the Progressive Conservative party. Parent parented EGSPA, pushing the...
Raucous crowd greets fracking review panel
by Chris Benjamin David Wheeler’s fracking roadshow reached Halifax last night and received its most boisterous heckling yet. Wheeler, president of Cape Breton University and sustainable business guru (he convinced the province to burn trees for energy), chairs an “independent review panel” investigating the potential for fracking in Nova Scotia. Last night’s meeting was the...