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NS: Marine Atlantic leaves dock with $175 million
[SYDNEY, NS] — The Marine Atlantic ferry service linking Cape Breton to Newfoundland and Labrador will receive a $175-million cash infusion over the next two years. The Conservative government announced its infrastructure investment as part of their 2010 financial budget. Minister of State of Transport Rob Merrifield said the money will be used to update the [...] More
PE: Report reveals province raked in millions from PNP
[CHARLOTTETOWN, PE] — Financial details about the Provincial Nominee Program released last week show the government corporation that administered the PNP brought in over $295 million in gross earnings for the 2008-2009 fiscal year. That’s more than double the amount earned the year before. More
NS: Union files complaint over ECBC management ratio
[SYDNEY, NS] — How many managers does it take to run one Crown corporation? A newly formed union local at Enterprise Cape Breton Corp. has filed a complaint with the Canada Industrial Relations Board, saying ECBC absorbed another local Crown corporation and excluded every one of the new employees from the union. More
NS: Sydney commercial park gets $1M loan
[SYDNEY NS] — Nova Scotia has approved a $1-million loan to Harbourside Commercial Park, a Crown corporation that will gain control of the remediated Sydney Steel properties. The loan, from the province’s Industrial Expansion Fund, will allow Harbourside to purchase land from Sysco to develop phase two of the marine park. More
NL: Shame on Marine Atlantic, says Byrne
[CORNER BROOK, NL] — MP Gerry Byrne says Marine Atlantic’s increase in fuel surcharge is an attempt to decrease demand on the ferry service and counter the fact it has done nothing to address its capacity issue. More
PE Politics: Former deputy returns PNP money
[CHARLOTTETOWN, PE] - The former deputy minister in charge of the Provincial Nominee Program who also benefited from the program has paid the money back. Brooke MacMillan served as deputy minister of Innovation under former minister Richard Brown when the PNP was at its busiest. He was then shuffled out of the department and appointed [...] More
Businesses should seek legal advice on PNP liability
[CHARLOTTETOWN, PE] - Innovation Minister Allan Campbell suggests that Island business owners who benefited from the Provincial Nominee Program should get a legal opinion if they are worried about a potential liability. If more than seven per cent of the 2,200 PNP immigrants nominated by P.E.I. still waiting in the federal queue decide their wait [...] More
