News News Sorry everyone still reading. Last week I was in Trinidad so no Morning File (thanks Tim for helping out!) and this week I’m leaving for Iowa, so this one will be brief.  I promise back to normal next Saturday! The corn grows there?  Wow! 1. Taylor Samson. Some scattered thoughts on the stories […]

News Views News 1. I, for one, welcome our new overlords Tom Traves is the highest paid person working at Dalhousie, if by “working” and “at Dalhousie” you mean retired, and basically at home. What do I know about words and meaning though, I’m just a sessional English instructor. Peter MacKay should be photographed hugging […]

News Views News 1. Mummy helps me with the news… I’m on “vacation.” Which means I am in Winnipeg with my mother. Conversation from today: Me: So I have to go do the news… Mummy: What news? Me: I write like a news thing on Saturdays. Mummy: But you’re not there. Me: I’m not making […]

News A Timeline of Writing Summer News Noonish: Start looking at news. Oh! Here’s something. The water in Hammonds Plains might be turning a senior’s hair yellow. Think about the water in the Black community in Upper Hammonds Plains. In the words of poet iZrEAL in the poem “Dog Walk Park:” The same Doug Sparks who […]

News Views Noticed Footnotes News 1. My silences will not protect me… Damn, I knew it was a slow news day when basically I’m the news, which means now I have to write news about myself which is awkward. I want to talk about respectability politics. How my mother once told me that my Grandmother […]

News Views Noticed News 1. F*ck Dynasty Tim has been covering this story. Stop stealing my news, Tim! Anyway, I’m all about the quotes in this CBC article. Before I get to the story, I share this comment by JD: “It’s OK to be racist against someone with a beard, but not against being gay, well […]

News Views Noticed Footnotes News 1. This Again Tim already covered the Report of the Task Force on Misogyny, Sexism and Homophobia in Dalhousie University Faculty of Dentistry. Authentic re-enactment of Dalhousie School of Dentistry lectures. Tim mentioned that I ended up being the only person in the report mentioned by name, and referenced a […]

News Views Noticed Footnotes News 1. Ain’t no Black in the Union Jack,  lotsa thief in the Maple Leaf… The Royal Nova Scotia Tattoo opens next week. This is interesting to me in light of the recent stories about removing the Confederate flag from Nova Scotia. I went with my mother to the Tattoo once.  […]

News Views Noticed Footnotes News 1. Black people, anger, forgiveness, and justice. Last week, a reader accused me of being “anti-white.” I wasn’t bothered by this, other than I was planning on doing an edition of Morning File where I exclusively did news about baby deer in the South End and suggested that now white […]

News Views Noticed Footnotes News 1. What about your dog, Peter? Oh, how I wish this image weren’t metaphorical… Peter MacKay was in Stellarton to talk to students about cyberbullying. “MacKay told the students he wouldn’t be where he is today if some of his actions as a teen were posted on the internet, encouraging the students to […]