1. Link Round Up It’s a long weekend, so I’m essentially on Morning File vacation. I’ll be back next week with a “real” Morning File. Also, since it’s a long weekend, there’s no news. I complained to one of the guys I often go to for my prison news that there was no news and […]
Archives for July 2016
“I miss the job” – Sue Uteck. Examineradio, episode #72
After losing her long-held south-end seat by fewer than 100 votes, former city councillor Sue Uteck is gearing up to challenge incumbent Waye Mason in this October’s municipal election. What’s inspiring her run and what does she think the city should be doing better? Plus, CBC steps in it by “explaining” that North Preston is some sort […]
Nothing is More Precious than Freedom and Independence! Morning File, Friday, July 29, 2016
News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. P3 schools A provincial press release: The province advised Nova Learning today, July 28, that it will purchase two of their nine schools in July 2018 after the leases expire. The schools are O’Connell Drive Elementary School in Porters Lake and Riverside Education […]
Stadium envy and the hiring of Jacques Dubé: Morning File, Thursday, July 28, 2016
News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Stadium envy Former Moncton CAO Jacques Dubé has been hired for the same position in Halifax. In December, CAO Richard Butts abruptly resigned and took a job as president of Clayton Developments, the largest development firm in the area. Then-city solicitor John Traves has been operating […]
Rank hypocrisy and the hiring of Marilla Stephenson: Morning File, Wednesday, July 27, 2016
News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Blue Mountain – Birch Cove Lakes wilderness Yesterday, Halifax council took the most sensible action possible with regards to the Blue Mountain – Birch Cove Lakes wilderness park I discussed yesterday. Council voted to push the entire issue back to its September 6 […]
Legal conference wrestles with online privacy and cyber bullying
Some six billion videos a day are posted to Snapchat –a social media platform used by 77 per cent of college students — and posts to Facebook exceed three million a minute, so it’s questionable whether anything is truly private anymore. Or can be legally protected. But online privacy is the topic at the heart of...
Is Reg Rankin angling, Richard Butts-style, for a job at the Annapolis Group? Morning File, Tuesday, July 26, 2016
News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Blue Mountain – Birch Cove Lakes wilderness At today’s city council meeting, councillor Reg Rankin will introduce the following motion: That Halifax Regional Council direct staff to: 1. Initiate the public consultation and hearing process for an amendment to the Regional Municipal Planning […]
Let’s create a job for our friend Marilla: Morning File, Monday, July 25, 2016
News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. CBC’s “explainer” on North Preston Upset with a CBC “explainer” about the community of North Preston, eight protestors descended upon CBC’s Halifax offices Friday and demanded a retraction. I was there, and wrote this article about it. Besides the clear misrepresentation of North […]
Code Words: Morning File, Saturday, July 23, 2016
Conversation with Walter Borden Black Lives Matter’s intervention into the Toronto Pride parade raised issues of exclusion of Black people from the mainstream Pride movement. Much of the reporting around the action treated Blackness and gayness as separate identities, and the queer Black women activists were treated as though they were intruders into a parade […]
Protestors demand CBC retract “explainer” on North Preston
Upset with the a CBC “explainer” about the community of North Preston, eight protestors descended upon CBC’s Halifax offices and demanded a retraction. Last week, after the bodies of five-year-old Taliyah Marsman and her mother, Sara Baillie, were found in two locations near Calgary, former Nova Scotia resident Edward Downey was charged with two counts of first degree […]
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