So last week, 10 out of 37 hospital emergency departments in Nova Scotia were closed for at least some part of the week. The Musquodoboit Valley Memorial Hospital won in the best-in-worst category: its emergency department was scheduled to be closed for a total of five days last week, only finally reopening its doors on Saturday. There are differing but ultimately similar … [Read More...]
A look at who’s paying less than a living wage
News 1. Indigenous employee talks about harassment at CFB Halifax Ashley Burke with CBC talks with Steve Morrisey who’s now on sick leave from his job at DND from … [Read More...]
There’s good water news, but mostly there’s bad water news
News 1. There's Something in the Water "It was a Saturday morning and Ellen Page was giving up some of what could have been a bit of down time to do a … [Read More...]
Recent articles
“There’s something in the water”
It was a Saturday morning and Ellen Page was giving up some of what could have been a bit of down time to do a telephone interview about her forthcoming film on environmental racism in Nova Scotia, which will have its world debut this September at … [Read More...]
Licensing bicycles won’t help
News 1. John Perkins sues "Sixty-eight-year-old John Perkins of Earltown is striking a blow for democracy after he says he was forcibly hauled out of a public meeting by an RCMP officer last May," reports Jennifer Henderson: Perkins held a … [Read More...]
ExxonMobil Canada paid $40,000 fine for incident that nearly cost a man his life
ExxonMobil Canada has paid a fine of $40,000 for failing to comply with an offshore regulation that nearly cost a man his life. The fine was issued July 12 by the Canada Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board (CNSOPB) after a lengthy investigation … [Read More...]
Roughed up by the RCMP at a public meeting, John Perkins sues Atlantic Gold and the cops
Sixty-eight-year-old John Perkins of Earltown is striking a blow for democracy after he says he was forcibly hauled out of a … [Read More...]
Charlottetown CAO Peter Kelly accused of exceeding authority and awarding untendered contracts
Peter Kelly, the Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) of the city of Charlottetown, is accused of improperly, and possibly … [Read More...]
On the beach
News 1. Military ban on some tattoos Lee Berthiaume reports for the Canadian Press that the military has issued new … [Read More...]
Halifax is getting ruff with canine owners in these dog days of summer
News 1. MyHealthNS Jennifer Henderson reports on MyHealthNS and the decision by McKesson Canada to pull the plug on the … [Read More...]
Toni Morrison: “White people have a very, very serious problem … Take me out of it”
From Detroit to Damascus, tributes have been pouring in for the literary giant born Chloe Ardelia Wofford (and known as Toni … [Read More...]
What went wrong with MyHealthNS?
The provincial government’s news release last Wednesday was succinct, if not desert-dry. “MyHealthNS,” it began, “the … [Read More...]
After $8.5 million was spent on developing MyHealthNS, the vendor of the online portal for health records is calling it quits
Technology put a man on the moon but in Nova Scotia (and several other provinces) efforts to computerize a patient’s … [Read More...]
Despite government assurances to the contrary, no one knows what the abandoned tidal turbine is doing to the environment
I'm having computer problems, and so this is a short version of Morning File. News 1. Who are we building bike lanes for, … [Read More...]
Who are we building bike lanes for, anyway?
After the announcement about $25 million in funding towards a minimum bike grid for central Halifax and Dartmouth, there was … [Read More...]
How many adults looked the other way as children in their care were being sexually abused?
News 1. Patrick McNutt This item contains accounts of sexual abuse of children. A police release from … [Read More...]
Why are you running for city council?
News 1. Lower Sackville byelection "Three women have declared as candidates for this fall’s special election in Lower … [Read More...]
Halifax CAO Jacques Dubé is raising money for charity; this is a problem
News 1. Spaceport "I hadn’t even made it into Canso when I happened upon the first person willing and eager to speak … [Read More...]
Opposition to Canso spaceport grows
I hadn’t even made it into Canso when I happened upon the first person willing and eager to speak her mind on the proposed … [Read More...]
The Assoun and the Furey
Justice Minister Mark Furey is about to assume his own dishonourable place in the dark pantheon of Nova Scotia’s injustice … [Read More...]
This is what environmental racism looks like: Lunenburg council wants Boat Harbour clean-up delayed
News 1. Boat Harbour clean-up "Fifty-two years of toxic sludge — enough to fill 400 Olympic-sized swimming pools to the … [Read More...]
Boat Harbour: How to clean up a toxic soup
Fifty-two years of toxic sludge — enough to fill 400 Olympic-sized swimming pools to the brim. That’s the cleanup job now in … [Read More...]
“No one cares about Assoun, tsk, tsk, tsk”
News 1. "No one cares about Assoun, tsk, tsk, tsk" Dave Moore is the former RCMP officer who suspected that serial killer … [Read More...]
“No one cares about Assoun, tsk, tsk, tsk”
Dave Moore is the former RCMP officer who suspected that serial killer Michael McGray, and not Glen Assoun, murdered Brenda … [Read More...]
Here’s how much we paid in legal fees to get court documents in Glen Assoun’s wrongful conviction case unsealed
News 1. Chickens and other fowl "Hesitant to settle for chickens, Halifax councillors decided to include all egg-laying … [Read More...]
People are getting bent out of shape about $25 million being spent on bike projects over three years, but we’ve already spent more than that on road maintenance projects this year and no one batted an eye
News 1. Bike money rolls in "On Monday morning federal, provincial, and municipal officials gathered to announce a … [Read More...]