News Views Government On campus Noticed In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Sidewalk protest A hundred accessibility advocates took to the street yesterday to protest the poor state of Halifax’s sidewalks. 2. Part time work, full time misery Moira Donovan examines how universities are increasingly using poorly paid adjunct professors. This article is behind the Examiner’s […]
Archives for February 2015
Lawyer: put warning labels on gas pumps
What is human nature? In the 21st century, the concept has calcified around a figure of the human being as a rational, advantage-seeking individual, a figure conveniently suited to a capitalist free market economy. Yet what many people try to assert as self-evident is starting to show cracks. Robert Shirkey, a Toronto-based lawyer and founder […]
Accessibility advocates take to the street to protest Halifax’s icy sidewalks
About 100 people — many who use canes, crutches or wheelchairs — protested the poor sidewalk ice clearing in Halifax today. Saying the sidewalks were to icy to walk on, the protesters literally took to the street, walking a two-block stretch of Gottingen Street to express their displeasure with city ice removal efforts. The Gottingen Street sidewalk […]
Part time work, full time misery: the life of an adjunct professor
Shaun Bartone has been teaching in colleges and universities since 1998. With two masters degrees and a law degree under his belt, he’s now on his way towards completing a PhD. He also lives in public housing. “I qualify for public housing, thank god,” he says. “I’m appreciative of that because it floats with my...
Or is that an an alpaca? Morning File, Friday, February 27, 2015
areNews Views Government On campus Noticed In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Sidewalks Yesterday, I gave readers details about which contractors are responsible for clearing the ice and snow off which sidewalks on the peninsula. (This article is behind the Examiner’s pay wall and so available only to paid subscribers. To purchase a subscription, click here.) […]
Africville residents want to reopen 1996 lawsuit against Halifax
by Hilary Beaumont Wednesday morning, more than 80 former residents of Africville and their descendants crammed into a federal courtroom, the largest in the Upper Water courthouse, to ask a judge for an amendment to their lawsuit against the city. Wednesday’s submissions were the first step down what former residents hope will be the road...
See which contractors are responsible for clearing which sidewalks on the peninsula
Background According to a 2013 staff report to city council: In 2006 Council approved the tender to initiate Performance Based Sidewalk Tenders for seven routes located on Peninsula Halifax, Spryfield, Timberlea and North Dartmouth. These tenders were designed for performance management and provided for predictable cost controls regardless of the severity of the winter. In...
The hills are alive with the sound of laughter: Morning File, Thursday, February 26, 2015
News Views Government On campus Noticed In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Byline strike? In yesterday’s Morning File, I cited reader Chris Parson’s Facebook post questioning the Halifax Typographical Union’s lukewarm support for the 13 pressmen the Chronicle Herald locked out Monday. “Parsons goes on to point out that while the reporters and other newsroom employees […]
What’s the point of student government?
What does a student association do? It’s a question that even current students might be hard pressed to answer. Student associations are often understood in name alone – as unions or governments – but Michael Hughes, a Queen’s PhD student who prepared an independent report on student association governance, says that this understanding of what...
A mirror into the shattered soul: Morning File, Wednesday, February 25, 2015
News Views Government On campus Noticed In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Snow Ten to 20 centimetres today, says Environment Canada, but Peter Coade is predicting just five to 10 centimetres. 2. Africville Former residents of Africville will appear in court today, trying to convince a judge that their class-action suit against the city has merit. Reports […]
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