News 1. Steve Craig Steve Craig won the byelection for MLA in Sackville-Cobequid. (Preliminary results are above.) The district has long been solidly NDP, so a PC victory is notable, but I wouldn't read too much into it. The NDP candidate, Lara Fawthrop, didn't have Craig's name recognition, and Craig is more on the "progressive" side of the Progressive Conservative … [Read More...]
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The Halifax Examiner turns five years old today
News 1. Five years The Halifax Examiner turns five years old today. On June 18, 2014, I made this site live and posted this video: Look how young I was! … [Read More...]
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The Halifax police department has a crisis of legitimacy
News 1. The Halifax police department has a crisis of legitimacy Is there an unusually large number of Halifax cops who are crooks? I suspect there is an … [Read More...]
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Nova Scotia health care by the numbers
A rally organized by a citizen who started a Facebook group called “Nova Scotia Health Care Crisis” attracted about 75 people in front of the former library on Spring Garden Road Saturday afternoon. They included three frustrated emergency room … [Read More...]
What if we just gave Americans cash to come to Nova Scotia?
Say, here’s an idea. My idea isn’t quite the Chase-the-Ace, get-us-on-national-TV, fun-and-games scheme Tim suggested a few months back. “Simply toss 20 dollar bills from a helicopter above downtown Yarmouth,” he proposed as his own common sense … [Read More...]
We’ll all be rich if we give Ben Cowan-Dewar an $18 million airport
News 1. SIRT is not equipped to investigate rape by cops The Serious Incident Response Team (SIRT) is tasked with investigating police, but it has no written policies for preserving rape kit evidence and its investigators have no specialized … [Read More...]
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The Archaeology of Loss
“We were in wonderful moose country now.” At least this is how Albert Bigelow Paine described the Nova Scotia landscape he … [Read More...]
Raped twice by the same cop
Elizabeth had no expectations when she opened her email on a Monday morning in early February. But the words she read in the … [Read More...]
Former Richmond CAO Kent MacIntyre’s fascinating career, and its collapse
1. Former Richmond CAO Kent MacIntyre's fascinating career, and its collapse The Richmond County council fired Chief … [Read More...]
The problem with meritocracy: it destroys our humanity
News 1. Studenting While Black "On June 2, Black graduate student Shelby McPhee was accused by two white women of … [Read More...]
Studenting While Black: another example of calling the cops on Black people for simply existing
On June 2, Black graduate student Shelby McPhee was accused by two white women of stealing a laptop while he was attending … [Read More...]
Documenting police “malfeasance” in Glen Assoun’s wrongful conviction
Yesterday, Glen Assoun's lawyer Phil Campbell filed a brief with the Supreme Court in response to a media application to … [Read More...]
The collapse of legacy newspapers: don’t blame the internet; blame deregulation of finance and the corporate raiders of the 1980s and 1990s
News 1. A loss for energy efficiency "EfficiencyOne has lost a battle with Nova Scotia Power to spend more of … [Read More...]
EfficiencyOne loses battle with Nova Scotia Power for more spending on energy efficiency
EfficiencyOne has lost a battle with Nova Scotia Power to spend more of ratepayers’ money on energy conservation … [Read More...]
My Mother and Tessa Virtue
My mother does not do anything stereotypically Canadian. "Why should I pay Tim Hortons to carry around their logo? They … [Read More...]
And promises to break…
I have no reason to doubt Catherine Tully when she told the subscriber-based business website allnovascotia.com last week she … [Read More...]
How money laundering is making rents go up in Halifax
News 1. Cornwallis "There was little support for Halifax’s controversial founder at the first public meeting to help … [Read More...]
Halifax police try to intervene in the Glen Assoun document case
News 1. Update on the Assoun documents As I've reported, the Halifax Examiner, the CBC, and the Canadian Press are … [Read More...]
Bus Stop Theatre gets half a tank
News 1. Bus Stop Theatre gets half a tank At its meeting yesterday, Halifax council nearly unanimously (Matt Whitman … [Read More...]
Is the SaltWire Network serious about its lawsuit against Transcontinental?
1. Is the SaltWire Network serious about its lawsuit against Transcontinental? Remember that lawsuit the SaltWire … [Read More...]
We the North: Black lives only matter when they are shooting a basketball
In Ottawa, one of the legal advocates for the Elizabeth Fry Society tells me that the Human Rights Commission refused to … [Read More...]
Here’s your chance to speak on the Cornwallis issue
News 1. Health care non-crisis "Last week's 'mutual' firing of the province's deputy health minister shows just how … [Read More...]
St. Barbara still intends to acquire Atlantic Gold
St. Barbara Limited, the Australian gold mining company that recently announced it was acquiring Atlantic Gold in a $722 … [Read More...]
The Innovation Hub of Nova Scotia: the “biomass” company you’ve probably never heard of
The Innovation Hub of Nova Scotia (branded as the Nova Scotia Innovation Hub) is a non-profit corporation which includes a … [Read More...]
Crisis? What crisis? Just a(nother) ‘new (lack of) direction’ for healthcare
Last week, when Premier Stephen McNeil “mutually” agreed to fire Denise Perret — the deputy minister of health he’d hired … [Read More...]
Stephen McNeil held a scripted PR event and the compliant media played along
News 1. Stephen McNeil to John Perkins: file a complaint "If you aren’t keen on police roughing you up and cuffing you … [Read More...]