I went to Nova Scotia to find the new Canadian spaceport

Investigating a $200 million taxpayer-funded “spaceport” in Canso, Nova Scotia — which appears to be little more than a concrete slab — while connected Liberal insiders stand to pocket millions from a deeply questionable federal deal.

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I flew to Halifax and drove all the way to Canso, Nova Scotia to find the new Canadian spaceport that recently got a $200 million deal from the Canadian military.

I was shocked to learn that this spaceport is nothing but a concrete slab on an empty lot.

There is no real infrastructure. No launch facilities. Nothing that looks capable of sending a rocket into outer space.

And by all appearances, it will likely never see a rocket go to space.

What it will see, however, is money.

Connected insiders stand to pocket millions from a deeply questionable federal deal — one that local residents vehemently oppose.

I spoke with Marie Lumsden, a local activist who has been tracking this project closely.

She’s not only worried about the spaceport’s impact on the local community and environment, but about what the entire project represents.

In her view, it has all the markings of something far more troubling.

She believes it may be an elaborate Ponzi scheme.

Watch the full report and see the site for yourself.

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  • jerry stone
    commented 2026-04-26 14:03:32 -0400
    YOU GOT IT WRONG it is a landing pad for aliens
  • Silver Feet
    commented 2026-04-26 01:02:22 -0400
    Just another government corruption scandal to add to the list. What was the pitch, Oh boy do I have a deal for you! A spaceship launch pad in Nova Scotia and as a bonus you can use our time machine to rent it for a year in the past.

    But then again they also gave us these classics:
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    Weather Taxes: You pay them whether or not it does anything
    Green Slushie Fund: Green for all my friends
    Arrivescam: Technically the app wasn’t suppose to work at all, Don’t know why the sub-sub-sub-sub-contractor actually did some work
    Lightspeed Loans: No interest if you’re not one of my good pals
    SNC Leveling The Tax Dollars: That b’tch recorded me. Let the gaslighting commence
    Scary Gun Scam Program: Guns are strictly only allowed for criminals. Gophers we love you.

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    And many more to be uncovered and implemented!
    Welcome to the extended universe of Liberal/NDP corruption, what will they think of next!
  • chris macdonald
    commented 2026-04-25 19:08:18 -0400
    Canadian space program: we’re going to land a man on the sun, but at night.
  • Bernhard Jatzeck
    commented 2026-04-25 15:44:50 -0400
    Fran G:

    Don’t forget, though, that SpaceX and Blue Origin are privately funded. Musk and Bezos, respectively, are spending—and risking—their own money, but, then, they have independent sources of revenue on which they can draw. For example, much of SpaceX’s development costs are covered by Starlink subscriptions. At the same time, it gets paid by its various customers to have their satellites launched.
  • Marilyn Hagerman
    commented 2026-04-25 14:49:34 -0400
    Marie Lumsden is one amazing dedicated Canadian!! Her persevering quest for truth is probably the most encouraging thing I’ve read this morning. Just reading titles of most reports tells it all well enough to maintain one’s sanity!! Take a few minutes and listen to the video in this article I’ve linked below! An amazing overview of Canada and it’s “leadership” today!!

    https://www.junonews.com/p/glenn-beck-shreds-carneys-majority?utm_medium=email&triedRedirect=true
  • Paul Mccullough
    commented 2026-04-25 14:17:57 -0400
    The Investors will ride the stocks as they rise, and when people start catching on, they’ll use short selling and Put options to make another fortune as they crash. It’s a game and we, in this case, are the patsies.
  • Fran G
    commented 2026-04-25 14:11:23 -0400
    Highly stinks of scam! About all we can expect from carnage. In the first place Chanadians can hardly afford the tampons in the male bathrooms, we are in debt past our eyeballs, thanks to carnage spending. Secondly I am starting to suspect trips to the moon are just theatre, no substance. Us humans have plenty of problems to deal with on Earth, spending money to supposedly travel to the moon is ridiculous. Ezra I could hardly hear that lady, please turn up the volumne.
  • Tony Salotti
    commented 2026-04-25 08:53:55 -0400
    Let’s just build a rocket and launch Trudeau and Carney into space on a one way trip .
  • Bernhard Jatzeck
    commented 2026-04-25 02:15:06 -0400
    Meanwhile, SpaceX is making money from its Falcon 9 flights, with preparations underway for another Starship/Super Heavy launch (no date mentioned). It also looks like SpaceX will soon become a publicly-traded company.

    Blue Origin launched another New Glenn with mixed results. The first stage successfully landed, but there were problems with the second stage resulting in the payload not achieving a proper orbit and is now considered lost.

    Rocket Lab is also making money launching smaller payloads and there are several start-up companies (many in Europe) who’re hoping to have something flying.

    At least those companies are doing something viable and, often, have something to show for their efforts, even if it’s a smoking piece of junk that can be studied to figure out what went wrong. A few days ago, I saw a video clip about the other company in the area, the one in Newfoundland and Labrador, apparently attempted to launch something but that was scrubbed.

    This certainly isn’t the same country that was developing the Avro Arrow…..
  • Bernhard Jatzeck
    commented 2026-04-25 01:41:56 -0400
    I’ve heard that the Ukrainian-built Tsiklon-4M (Cyclone-4M) was supposed to fly from that launch pad. But there’s more to the story.

    According to the information sources I consulted, the development of the rocket has taken longer than scheduled for a number of reasons, such as engines being unavailable due to the war. As far as I can tell, it’s never flown.

    But here’s a tricky part. The second stage apparently uses hydrazine as its fuel. The problem is that hydrazine is not only toxic, but, from what I’ve heard, it’s also corrosive when in contact with skin. It’s not a good idea to try and fly it close to any human habitation, particularly when it hasn’t been tested properly and all the bugs worked out. (Just ask people in China. Rockets such as the Long March are launched from sites well inland and the boosters are simply dumped when jettisoned. I’ve seen news reports about that where the boosters simply land where they fall, frequently venting fuel—often hydrazine.)
  • Bernhard Jatzeck
    commented 2026-04-25 01:24:21 -0400
    We used to have a launch facility near Churchill. It was used for sounding rockets such as the Canadian-built Black Brant, going more than 60 years. The seafloor of Hudson’s Bay is littered with spent booster stages.

    It was closed down nearly 3 decades ago when an attempt to turn it into a spaceport didn’t go anywhere.

    As for the BB, they were built by Bristol Aerospace (now part of Magellan Aerospace) in Winnipeg and were a popular rocket. Often, sounding boosters were combinations where the first stage might be, say, a Nike and the second a BB. Black Brant stages were used for boosters that were launched from places such as Esrange (near Kiruna, Sweden), Wallops Island in Virginia, and, I think, Poker Flat in Alaska.
  • Matt Abrahams
    commented 2026-04-24 23:18:06 -0400
    The question you should ask, Ezra, is which government official or bureaucrat holds shares in this company.
  • Paul Scofield
    commented 2026-04-24 23:04:22 -0400
    I can’t quite imagine NASA’s new Space Launch System (SLS) (used with the Artemis II mission) fitting on that slab, let alone the mighty Saturn V. Perhaps a few pop bottle rockets or Roman candles with delusions of grandeur. Spaceport my hind end.
  • Barb Morrison
    commented 2026-04-24 22:58:14 -0400
    This is unreal. How many scandals from the liberals? I’ve lost count!
  • Roman Kierzek
    commented 2026-04-24 22:03:49 -0400
    Wow, corruption beyond belief. Understandable that Alberta wants to seperate. In fact all the provinces should seperate, sink or swim. The ones that swim, hats off to you. The ones that sink, nice known you.
  • Tim Kelley
    commented 2026-04-24 20:36:11 -0400
    McGinty is a loser and a liar
  • mark gaboury
    commented 2026-04-24 20:35:42 -0400
    There is no way that this pad that a small garage would fit on would launch a rocket into space. And the houses are so close to there that the debris would cause the homeowners to be choked. It’s a scam, another Liberal one, and Freeland, remember, works for Ukraine.
  • Bruce Atchison
    commented 2026-04-24 20:34:57 -0400
    What a wacko scheme! Maybe we Conservatives could use this “space port” to bring Carney down to earth. Pierre Poilievre better harangue the Liberals for this utter waste of OUR tax dollars.