Podcast: The Todd Veinotte Show December 15th, 2023 | CityNews Halifax

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Hour 1: Tim Rissesco, Executive Director of Downtown Dartmouth Business Commission and VP of Downtowns Atlantic Canada, shares how fifteen business improvement associations in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island conducted a business census of 4300+ businesses to see what their greatest challenge they viewed as the best opportunity for their downtown or main street to recover. Wolfville Mayor Wendy Donovan shares how Wolfville conducts tree inventory to help the town deal with the effects of climate change. Weekly chat with Tim Powers, Summa Strategies, Abacus Data. Ross Jefferson, Discover Halifax, discusses how a Destination Canada report finds tourism recovery not expected until next year.

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Hour 2: It’s the Friday Free For All. Todd takes your calls!

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Hour 3: Duncan Robertson, Senior Policy Analyst, CFIB, shares how small businesses appeal to the Halifax Council for fair property tax policies amidst a $60 million shortfall. Geoff Irvine, Executive Director of The Lobster Council of Canada, discusses the only record landings being caught so far this year in the southwestern Nova Scotia lobster fishery are on the very low end of the scale. Wayne MacKay, Dalhousie University, Law professor emeritus, discusses that clarity on Indigenous fishing rights in the Maritimes is needed from the department and the courts or “anarchy will reign.” Sports with Cecil Wright.

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