Brian Ward

2 months ago | saltwire.com | Brian Ward

Skip to ContentAdvertisement 1  •   •  Article contentTariff blink, rethink or fake news? U.S. president Donald Trump has given a one-month reprieve to the auto industry and to products covered by the North American free trade agreement. Meanwhile, pushback is coming from players big and small. Nova Scotia premier Tim Houston this week banned U.S. booze from liquor stores and American companies from bidding on provincial government contracts.

Jan 24, 2025 | saltwire.com | Brian Ward

Advertisement 1  •  Article contentJean’s Chinese is backKong Jean got renovicted from his successful Spring Garden Road eatery just as he was about to sell and retire. His story didn’t end there, though. Bill Spurr caught up with him this week, as he prepared to re-open in Woodside. How DFO funded, then killed eel aquaculturePaul Smith had a plan to increase Canada’s take from the sale of eels to China tenfold.

Jan 17, 2025 | saltwire.com | Brian Ward

•  Article contentWhen Donald Trump says “tariff” I hear the voice of Inigo Montoya from the movie The Princess Bride: “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” To Trump, it means free money. To Canadian premiers, it means trouble. To Atlantic businesses, that and more. And, as Quebec’s Francois Legault has told Americans, it means higher prices for Quebec hydro that powers about 20 per cent of Trump Tower.

Jan 10, 2025 | saltwire.com | Brian Ward

•   •  Article contentCanada will be hit first, and worst, in any tariff fight with America’s favorite protectionist insurrectionist. And don’t expect our other trading partners to help. Experts say buyers of Michelin tires or Nova Scotia crab and lobster are more likely to demand discounts before buying what’s been priced out of the U.S. market. Advertisement 2Sign In or Create an AccountArticle contentToby Bond dreams about a million-kilometre battery.

Nov 27, 2024 | saltwire.com | Brian Ward

Leopold Koretz swindled so many and so well, he made Charles Ponzi look like a kid stealing lunch money. Writer Dean Jobb filed a terrific yarn this week that tells how a Halifax tailor helped catch the world’s greatest fraudster, who was finally tripped up by a jacket label. Hundreds of boats headed out in Southwest Nova Scotia this week to work the most lucrative fishery in the country. But before the first boat left the wharf, police were already investigating a shooting incident.