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Recent Posts:

• Court papers reveal a previously unpublicized industrial accident at the Moose River Gold Mine
• Pollution and weeds plague Dartmouth’s lakes
• A Tree Walk will make us all rich!
• A bunch of uninspired glass schlock may soon clutter up Wyse Road in Dartmouth
• The province spent $4 million to replace the Halfway River aboiteau, and just months later it is already failing
• The cruise ship industry disses the Yarmouth ferry
• When a healthcare crisis is an opportunity… for an “important milestone” moment photo-op
• A look at who’s paying less than a living wage
• There’s good water news, but mostly there’s bad water news
• “There’s something in the water”
• Licensing bicycles won’t help
• ExxonMobil Canada paid $40,000 fine for incident that nearly cost a man his life
• Roughed up by the RCMP at a public meeting, John Perkins sues Atlantic Gold and the cops
• Charlottetown CAO Peter Kelly accused of exceeding authority and awarding untendered contracts
• On the beach
• Halifax is getting ruff with canine owners in these dog days of summer
• Toni Morrison: “White people have a very, very serious problem … Take me out of it”
• What went wrong with MyHealthNS?
• After $8.5 million was spent on developing MyHealthNS, the vendor of the online portal for health records is calling it quits
• Despite government assurances to the contrary, no one knows what the abandoned tidal turbine is doing to the environment
• Who are we building bike lanes for, anyway?
• How many adults looked the other way as children in their care were being sexually abused?
• Why are you running for city council?
• Halifax CAO Jacques Dubé is raising money for charity; this is a problem
• Opposition to Canso spaceport grows
• The Assoun and the Furey
• This is what environmental racism looks like: Lunenburg council wants Boat Harbour clean-up delayed
• Boat Harbour: How to clean up a toxic soup
• “No one cares about Assoun, tsk, tsk, tsk”
• “No one cares about Assoun, tsk, tsk, tsk”
• Here’s how much we paid in legal fees to get court documents in Glen Assoun’s wrongful conviction case unsealed
• People are getting bent out of shape about $25 million being spent on bike projects over three years, but we’ve already spent more than that on road maintenance projects this year and no one batted an eye
• “It’s a great day for biking in Halifax”: $25 million rolls in for bike network construction
• A courageous mother’s act of forgiveness and a challenge to her son’s killer
• Can we talk about Israel and the Palestinians? No?
• “The only reason to go on living is so that I can kill”: A bone-chilling letter from a serial killer
• So much McNeil, so few answers
• Justice Minister Mark Furey: an apology to Glen Assoun is “premature”
• Stephen McNeil dodges questions about the proposed Inverness airport and the “conquered peoples” case
• Provincial budget update: increased surplus and debt reduction, but also large bills for cleaning up historic toxic mines and the Yarmouth ferry
• A bad day for people on bikes
• The Robie Street bus lanes are planned, but there’s no money budgeted to build them
• Halifax council has declared a climate emergency, so why is it preparing to increase transit fares?
• The Glen Assoun Wrongful Conviction
• In the past 16 months, there have been 5 fires in the South End within 100 metres of each other
• People in space are looking at us
• Dave Moore’s work could have cleared Glen Assoun of murder; here’s how and why the RCMP destroyed it
• “Hands off our protected areas, and lay off our Crown land”
• The McNeil government is going for the secrecy gold medal
• “Prison was hell”: Glen Assoun tells his story
• Court documents detail repeated police raids on the same cannabis dispensary
• Alex Cameron’s “conquered people” brief is odious, but he’s got a good case against the McNeil government
• The shameful and cowardly political non-response to the Assoun case
• Politicians are doubling down on the injustice done to Glen Assoun
• Misconduct, prejudice, laments and lies
• The Assoun wrongful conviction: How Halifax police, RCMP, and prosecutorial misconduct sent an innocent man to prison and kept him there for nearly 17 years
• Who’s not telling the truth? Bay Ferries? The Nova Scotia government? US Border Services? All of the above?
• The Assoun wrongful conviction: How Halifax police, RCMP, and prosecutorial misconduct sent an innocent man to prison and kept him there for nearly 17 years
• A victory for open courts: Justice James Chipman finds in favour of the media and unseals the Assoun file
• BREAKING: RCMP destroyed information that would have suggested serial killer Michael McGray murdered Brenda Way; that destroyed information likely would have cleared Glen Assoun in the murder
• Changing the racist names of Nova Scotia’s geographic locations
• The Cabot Links airport uses a “social enterprise” designation created for farmers’ markets
• Janet Knox: helping people develop a healthy lifestyle would be a better investment of health care dollars
• Who killed the electric bus? Halifax Transit turns down electric bus funding, opts to stick with diesel instead
• Was Trevor O’Neil’s death preventable?
• New top cop Dan Kinsella: no racial profiling, just “some inequalities, some negative experiences”
• Is executive fraud behind the bankruptcy of VistaCare Communications?
• Nova Scotia Power seeks three annual rate increases of 1.5% for residential customers
• The Assoun wrongful conviction: the McNeil connection
• Northern Pulp Mill’s missing environmental data
• Don’t worry. Be happy. That’s only your tax dollars you see sinking
• Pandora’s Box
• Ignorance is bliss, and other news of the day
• An astonishing display of cowardice: city councillors are ignoring police misconduct in the Assoun case
• If a tree in the Public Gardens could talk, what would it say? Text it and find out
• UPDATED: Supreme Court Justice James Chipman rules for media group in Assoun document case
• Diminishing Dissent
• Policing the Radical Imagination
• Shelburne School for Boys: Good intentions gone wrong? Or…?
• Where are the women in the Nova Scotia workforce?
• Climate change is killing the right whales
• If you live on the Halifax peninsula or in Dartmouth inside the Circ, you’re probably drinking water out of lead pipes
• Iain Rankin promises big changes in forestry management, but the province is moving slowly
• Redesigning the Windsor Exchange: if we get it right, it could be great
• The convention centre property tax bill for this year alone is $3.6 million more than expected
• After the gold rush
• It won’t be loading passengers any time soon, but the Alakai ferry has returned to Yarmouth
• The Sackville-Cobequid byelection: seeking meaning in the meaningless
• The Lantz interchange, Richard Butts, and suburban sprawl
• Yarmouth ferry may not sail this year
• The Nova Scotia government is giving “generous provincial grants” to gold mining companies
• Panglossian vox pop at the Herald: not a contrary word to be heard
• The Halifax Examiner turns five years old today
• The Halifax police department has a crisis of legitimacy 
• Nova Scotia health care by the numbers
• What if we just gave Americans cash to come to Nova Scotia?
• We’ll all be rich if we give Ben Cowan-Dewar an $18 million airport
• The Archaeology of Loss
• Raped twice by the same cop
• Former Richmond CAO Kent MacIntyre’s fascinating career, and its collapse