company, Rank Inc. as defendants.
“After years of unfruitful communi-
cations with the Nova Centre stake-
holders to make them aware of the
negative impact, some frustrated busi-
nesses have now decided to take legal
action,” says a press release from
Wagners. There isn’t a precise compensation
amount the group is looking for, says
Wagner’s Erin Gillis in an email, “but
it’s likely in the range of hundreds of
thousands of dollars per business.”
Halifax Regional Municipality says
its legal team had reviewed the docu-
mentation it received from Wagners
Law Firm, and concluded they “do not
believe a claim of injurious affection
under the Expropriation Act applies to
the municipality in this instance,”
spokesperson Tiffany Chase wrote in
an email to reporters.
The email outlines the legal team’s
interpretation of the act, saying injuri-
ous affection only applies if “the gov-
ernment expropriates the land,” or if
“the government is undertaking the
construction activity.”
“Neither scenario applies in this
case, therefore we see no basis for a
claim of injurious affection against the
municipality,” Chase wrote.
However, lawyer Ray Wagner says
he believes all three levels of govern-
ment are responsible for making sure
that the development doesn’t have a
negative effect on business in the
downtown core because they’re all in-
vesting in the project.
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND
$65 million Cornwall
Bypass gets go-ahead
Premier Wade MacLauchlan has an-
nounced that his government has
made a formal application to the fed-
eral government’s Build Canada Fund
to begin the $65 million Cornwall by-
pass project this summer, The
Guardian reports.
The proposed new highway, com-
ing from New Haven, would cut across
the Baltic Rd. and Bannockburn Rd. to
Clyde River Rd., across Cornwall Rd.,
rejoining the Trans-Canada Highway
through a roundabout at the intersec-
tion of Warren Grove Rd. The province
says the new highway will be three
minutes shorter than the current route
through Cornwall.
The cost will be shared 50-50 by the
P.E.I. and federal governments.
The premier said the province’s
$32.5 million share will come out of
next year’s capital budget.
“It would be (spread) over three
years and it would come out of our
capital budgets,’’ MacLauchlan told
The Guardian following the news con-
ference. “We’ll be bringing forward a
new capital budget in the fall.’’
NUNAVUT $10 million Cape Dorset
project wins boost with
$4.5 million funding
from Canada’s Heritage
Department A campaign to build a new $10 mil-
lion art centre and print shop in Cape
Dorset, Nunavut, has received an ad-
ditional $4.5 million funding boost
from Canada’s heritage department,
CBC has reported.
Construction on the proposed
Kenojuak Cultural Centre and Print
Shop is scheduled to begin in the fall.
The facility will include permanent and
temporary exhibition galleries and
space for Cape Dorset print artists.
The federal government had previ-
ously pledged $2 million in funding
from Infrastructure Canada. An addi-
tional $3 million is to be privately
funded. NEWFOUNDLAND
AND LABRADOR
Contractor wins
$6.9 million St. John’s
school construction
project after long debate
YUKON Magna Contracting and Manage-
ment Inc. has been awarded a $6.9
million contract to build a new Virginia
Park School in St. John’s.
The 40-year-old school in the city’s
east end has been the subject of a
long debate, as parents in the area
have lobbied for years for a replace-
ment to the building.
The reconstruction faced several
delays, including one which may have
been caused by the fact that the site
was used as a dumping ground by the
American military, CBC reported.
Construction crews found an old
airplane fuselage on the site.
The land has been remediated. The
school has 2017 move in date.
Feds to flow $52.3 million in
infrastructure funding
The federal government has un-
veiled an agreement with the Yukon
government that will allow almost
$52.3 million in infrastructure money
to flow to 22 projects in the Yukon this
year and next.
The deal will cover $890,000 for
transit work in Whitehorse and green
infrastructure work on water and
wastewater systems, including a
$5.25 million water project in the vil-
lage of Mayo, Canadian Press reports.
Only two of the 22 projects will
have shovels in the ground this year,
with the remainder beginning in 2017,
said Currie Dixon, Yukon’s minister of
community services. The territory will
spend money this year on engineering
and design work, he said.
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