News 1. The Icarus Report There were two incidents at Stanfield International Airport yesterday. The first involved Air Canada flight 7775 from Halifax to Fredericton, reported CTV: A Fredericton-bound Air Canada flight had to turn around and make an emergency landing in Halifax Sunday after the pilot noticed smoke in the cockpit. Theresa Rath Spicer, spokesperson […]
Archives for April 2018
The Liberals’ Fang-less Five ‘pre-empt’ public interest
There's a clear public interest in knowing how well the province is protecting our personal data. So why are Liberal MLAs refusing to let the public accounts committee question witnesses about the latest data breaches?
Really? Of course, really. Last Wednesday, five Liberal MLAs — Gordon Wilson, Suzanne Lohnes-Croft, Ben Jessome, Brendan Maguire, and Hugh MacKay — voted, not with their minds, or their hearts, or their common sense, or even in the interests of the taxpayers who put them there, but in the craven service of their self-interested my-way-or-no-way...
Evidently, it’s elementary, they want us all gone eventually
It wasn’t supposed to be like this. People keep telling me I look exhausted, and I thought, after the trial, I’ll take some time off. Nas’ song “If I Ruled the World” was repeating in my head. “We’ll walk right up to the sun, hand in hand.” Things seemed to be going well, for once. […]
Examineradio 155: Adelina Iftene on Canada’s Prison Health Shame
This week, we speak with Dal law prof Adelina Iftene about the sad state of health care in Canada’s prisons. Also, privacy breaches, the convention centre, and laughing about dead people. (Direct download) (RSS feed) (Subscribe via iTunes)
I’ve been breached!
Morning File, Friday, April 27, 2018
1. Privacy “breach” I got the letter. I hadn’t checked my PO box for a few days, but yesterday I finally got the registered letter telling me my personal information was “breached” via the province’s Freedom of Information webpage screw-up. It was pouring down rain, like cats and dogs and goats and other small animals, […]
Liberals refuse to allow opposition parties to question bureaucrats responsible for the privacy breach
Morning File, Thursday, April 26, 2018
1. Dirty Dealing, Part 4 Reports Linda Pannozzo: Nova Scotia Lands, a provincial crown corporation charged with cleaning up Boat Harbour, played a role in silencing two Dalhousie University researchers whose work studied air pollution coming from the Northern Pulp mill, the Halifax Examiner has learned. The two researchers, Emma Hoffman and Tony Walker, were the […]
Dirty Dealing
Part 4: Message Control and the Northern Pulp Mill’s Cancer-Causing Air Emissions
Nova Scotia Lands, a provincial crown corporation charged with cleaning up Boat Harbour, played a role in silencing two Dalhousie University researchers whose work studied air pollution coming from the Northern Pulp mill, the Halifax Examiner has learned. In Part 3 of the Dirty Dealing series, I reported on the researchers’ 2017 ambient air study, which revealed […]
What’s wrong with the Barrington Street bridge ramp, and can we fix it?
Last week I wrote about the new street network being proposed for the land currently occupied by the Cogswell interchange, and asked why the city was proposing not to include a transit priority corridor along the full stretch of Barrington Street that’s being re-designed. The current plan does include some transit priority lanes on Barrington […]
You’re already getting a tax increase because of the convention centre
Morning File, Wednesday, April 25, 2018
News 1. City budget “They flirted with the idea of dipping into the savings account to lower the number, but in the end Halifax regional councillors approved the municipality’s budget for the year ahead with an increase of nearly 2 per cent to the average property tax bill,” reports Zane Woodford for Metro: Councillor Tim Outhit […]
The city sells naming rights to dog-awful corporations so you can save… two dollars
Morning File, Tuesday, April 24, 2018
1. “Privacy breaches” continue
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