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• We’ll all be rich if we give Ben Cowan-Dewar an $18 million airport
• The Archaeology of Loss
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• Former Richmond CAO Kent MacIntyre’s fascinating career, and its collapse
• The problem with meritocracy: it destroys our humanity
• Studenting While Black: another example of calling the cops on Black people for simply existing
• Documenting police “malfeasance” in Glen Assoun’s wrongful conviction
• The collapse of legacy newspapers: don’t blame the internet; blame deregulation of finance and the corporate raiders of the 1980s and 1990s
• EfficiencyOne loses battle with Nova Scotia Power for more spending on energy efficiency
• My Mother and Tessa Virtue
• And promises to break…
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• Halifax police try to intervene in the Glen Assoun document case
• Bus Stop Theatre gets half a tank
• Is the SaltWire Network serious about its lawsuit against Transcontinental?
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• Stephen McNeil held a scripted PR event and the compliant media played along
• McNeil government: if John Perkins doesn’t like being wrestled to the floor at a public meeting, he can file a complaint
• Justice Minister Mark Furey hasn’t seen the video of the RCMP arresting John Perkins at Atlantic Gold’s public meeting
• Atlantic Gold meeting fallout continues
• Northwest Arm ferry to launch on Tuesday
• Finally, a big discovery at Oak Island: Fraud
• Halifax police are using Stingray cell phone capturing devices, in apparent warrantless searches
• Winnipeg shows us how drinking can be allowed in public spaces
• Setting the record straight on Atlantic Gold’s spin job
• City Hall tried to crawl through a loophole on gender discrimination
• Three entirely untrained politicians making decisions on the fly is no basis for ensuring taxi safety
• Sexual assault in prison: vulnerable women prisoners have few protections and face reprisal for reporting attacks
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• The economic development grift, Cape Breton edition
• It is my mother’s strength that gives me my backbone
• Health Authority opens the door a crack
• Afua Cooper: “We need to smash those [racist] stereotypes and see the humanity in each and every one of us”
• A lot of people in Halifax will be hungover at work on Thursday
• “Do right by me”: by not addressing the systematic racism of street checks, the white power structure is doubling down on Nova Scotia’s well-earned reputation for ignorance, stigma, and stench
• Ka-ching. Ka-ching. Your tax dollars at work covering government butt
• The $722 million deal
• Treat your brain: get outdoors
• The authoritarian state starts with oppression of minorities today
• You’re adults now, and this is an actual crisis
• New police chief Dan Kinsella holds a degree from WalMart U.
• Ramadan in jail: prisoners in Burnside are being denied the right to practice their religion
• The redemption of Frank Anderson
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• “This is North Preston”: a story that “needs to be heard”
• If we really valued immigrants, we’d pay them better
• Truth Be Told: Nova Scotia’s forest department hires a PR firm with forest industry ties to help it with transparency
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• With increasing sea level rise, does it make sense to build a new Art Gallery of Nova Scotia on the waterfront?
• Yet another $9 million of public money is going to support the Yarmouth ferry
• Fracking is back on the agenda in Nova Scotia
• A tale of two protests
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• A squirrelly situation: lessons in urban planning
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• Ain’t nothin’ goin’ on but the rent in Halifax
• 16 random people in my hotel room
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• Fox Hill Market & Deli is accused of “extortion” of immigrant workers
• Health care crisis? What health care crisis?
• In praise of First Girls
• Paying for cops but not courts: Yarmouth ferry file
• Inez Rudderham: The face of the healthcare crisis in Nova Scotia
• Dear Prospective Atlantic Schooners Football Players: think twice before coming to racist Halifax
• Basic Income basics: No, it’s not impossible
• 40 years ago, Jolly Tar, a symbol of genocidal imperialism, was set aside and nobody raised a fuss 
• Oil industry-friendly politician objects to proposed strengthened environmental assessment rules
• Will the new electric car rebate help us stop changing the climate?
• Here are the Birch Cove Lakes – Blue Mountain land purchases the government will announce later today
• Department of Environment slams Northern Pulp’s environmental assessment as “insufficient”
• PCs put fracking back on the agenda
• The Nova Centre hotel isn’t opening any time soon; what does that mean for the city budget?
• Street checks: Who’s sorry now? Not the premier, not the justice minister, not the police
• The redemption of Johnny Mac
• 1940s writing tips from New York City via Royal Sweets in New Glasgow
• Telling the story of Glen Assoun’s wrongful conviction: we need your help
• How to value 27 newspapers spread across three provinces: the Ford Falcon test
• An armoured vehicle won’t protect people during a mall shooting, but it will protect institutional racism in the police department
• Hanna Garson: a young lawyer dedicated to the long, slow fight for prison justice
• Verdict without end
• Forest Confidential
• Extinction Rebellion: we must take urgent action on climate change
• Here’s a tip: Don’t take your staff’s gratuities
• Water, water everywhere
• Boat Harbour cleanup to be subjected to environmental review
• A mega development on Lake Banook shows that the Centre Plan is a cruel joke
• The plan to improve Herring Cove Road, eventually
• Nova Scotia has a mercury problem
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