Archives for December 2015

Editor’s note: today’s Morning File is written by Russell Gragg. News Views Footnotes News   1. Frankie MacDonald gets some pocket change Whitney Pier forecasting legend Frankie MacDonald has turned his amateur meteorological reports into an international viral sensation. With 63,000 subscribers to his YouTube channel and 14-million views, Frankie garners better numbers than both Joel […]

Editor’s note: Today’s Morning File is written by Natalie Chavarie. News Views Noticed Footnotes News 1. Not exactly the Panopticon of Harper’s dreams… The National Post looks at delays in the opening of the new federal jail — the economic driver of Cumberland County. The former town of Springhill may not see the government jobs it […]

Editor’s note: Today’s Morning file is written by guest writer Erica Butler. News Views Noticed Footnotes News 1. Let there be (more) snow. Environment Canada has issued a snowfall warning for today, which means about 15 to 25 centimetres worth, starting in the late morning, with possible ice pellets around supper time. Let’s hope this next round of […]

News Views Government This date in history Noticed In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Weather Weather is happening. Views 1. Chronicle Herald Alex Whalen, writing in the Prince Arthur Herald, a student-run paper at McGill University, laments the death spiral at the Chronicle Herald: It began in 2009, with more than a quarter of the east coast’s largest newsroom […]

News Views Government This date in history Noticed In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Rainmen and Hurricane Vice reporter Nathaniel Janowitz details of the collapse of the Halifax Rainmen basketball franchise in a damning article headlined  “How a brawl and sleazy owner killed the Halifax Rainmen.” The “sleazy owner” was Andre Levingston, who Janowitz says had “a […]

News Views Government This date in history Noticed In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Pedestrian killed, another two pedestrians struck From two overnight police emails to reporters: 4:49am: Fatality Motor Vehicle / Pedestrian collision 6990 Mumford Rd, Walmart Parking Lot. At 2318 hours Police responded to a motor vehicle collision between a pedestrian and a […]

News Views Government This date in history Noticed In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Give judges a big raise or they’ll take bribes Yesterday, when I woke up at 5:30 to write Morning File, I checked all the usual government websites and and saw that late Friday afternoon the province had posted an Order in […]

News Views Government This date in history In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Chronicle Herald to lock out newsroom employees Yesterday, the Halifax Typographical Union, which represents newsroom workers at the Chronicle Herald, sent out the following release: Conciliation talks between The Chronicle Herald newspaper and the union that represents its 61 newsroom staff have broken […]

Views Footnotes Views 1. My perspective Last week, I posted on Facebook about what Christmas means for incarcerated people and their families. I wrote about how people on remand are trying to get bail to be out in time for Christmas, and how so many families are hoping that cases will go through court in […]