News 1. Bill 60 The Liberals have reversed course on Bill 60, which would have prohibited the smoking of e-cigarettes and juices in public spaces. Depending on your perspective, this is either a sensible response to people who say e-cigarettes are helping them kick the habit and hookah lounge owners saying the ban is an […]
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Insolence equal to its immensity: Morning File, Wednesday, November 5, 2014
News 1. William Lee has died A Halifax police release: On October 31 at 5:11 p.m., officers responded to a collision between a car and a pedestrian at the intersection of Portland Estates Boulevard and Portland Hills Drive in Dartmouth. A 74-year-old man, who was crossing in the crosswalk at this intersection, was struck by an […]
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Canadian Pravda: How the Chronicle Herald fails its readers. A case study
Updated, November 7. See below. What’s the role of free press in society? It’s not a theoretical question: Halifax is the birthplace of press freedom in this country, and we pay homage to Joseph Howe for calling out corruption when he saw it. Meanwhile, reporters and editors elsewhere are being murdered for a job reporters in Canada take […]
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Ghomeshi is no Tremonti: Morning File, Tuesday, November 4, 2014
News 1. Confucius Institute Rinzin Ngodup, a Tibetan student at Saint Mary’s, says—rightly—that the Confucius Institute at the university is pure propaganda for the Communist regime in China. This is one of the educational issues I’ve been meaning to explore with the Examiner, but haven’t yet been able to get to. A Nation article from last year—”China U.: Confucius Institutes […]
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And I feel fine: Morning File, Monday, November 3, 2015
News 1. Abortion “Staff at abortion clinics in Augusta and Bangor in Maine said they have seen a spike in the number of telephone inquiries and visits from women from New Brunswick since the summer when the Morgentaler clinic in Fredericton closed, citing a lack of government funding,” reports the Canadian Press. 2. Tainted candy […]
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Bloody Friday at the Herald: Morning File, Saturday, November 1, 2014
News 1. Layoff notices at Chronicle Herald Yesterday, the Chronicle Herald sent layoff notices to 20 of its newsroom employees as part of its hardball bargaining with the employee union. The newsroom reporters are on a byline strike in solidarity with the employees sent layoff notices, which means that no reporters are signing the stories […]
Posted inInvestigation, Province House
The Unique Solution: Nearly the entire $5.6 million invested by Nova Scotia Business, Inc. has evaporated
Tanya Shaw, a graduate of Dalhousie University’s Costume Studies program, created Unique Solutions Design, Ltd. in 1994. Shaw has written that the company was “originally founded to provide custom sewing patterns tailored to fit its customers’ individual measurements.” Soon Shaw was being recognized for her business accuum. In 2000, the accounting firm Ernst & Young named her […]
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Armed and dangerous: Morning File, Friday, October 31, 2014
News 1. Guns “Halifax Regional Police has purchased more military issue semi-automatic weapons,” reports the CBC. As an example of why the cops need to carry C8 rifles, the ceeb points to Wednesday’s incident when a (possibly) mentally ill man tired to escape from a burglary scene by paddling a canoe across the Northwest Arm: […]
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Imprisoned: Morning File, Thursday, October 30, 2014
News 1. Nova Star idle The Nova Star has no wintertime bookings, the Chronicle Herald’s Michael Gorman reports. The business plan for the Yarmouth ferry was for it, like its predecessors, to go south during the off-season, to pick up a bit of revenue. The old Cat ferry, for example, one winter operated between Florida and the Bahamas, and another winter […]
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Council re-cap, October 28, 2014 meeting
Development proposals Wellington Street This development proposal from Dino Capital has its neighbours greatly concerned. At issue are four adjoining parcels—1034, 1042, 1050, and 1056 Wellington Street—with a house on each that long ago were divided into apartments. The properties have “as a right” approval for additions to the houses that would result in a […]