News 1. Premier vs teachers, round 27 Premier Stephen McNeil returned from his latest trip to Europe and China yesterday, and pretty much immediately started in on the teachers’ union — this time, accusing them of spreading misinformation about cuts. A CP story in The Star Halifax says McNeil criticized the union Thursday for alleging […]
16 random people in my hotel room
Morning File, Tuesday, April 30, 2019
News 1. Social Policy Framework report comes to council Tim has posted this “Will Work for Living Wage” image countless times, often while wondering what the heck ever happened to the staff report on social policy that council called for back in 2017. Well, that report finally comes to council today. On December 12, 2017, […]
1940s writing tips from New York City via Royal Sweets in New Glasgow
Morning File, Thursday, April 18, 2019
News 1. Work-related deaths nearly double in Nova Scotia Yesterday, the Workers’ Compensation Board of Nova Scotia released numbers on work-related injuries or deaths. The big item: the number of people who either died at work or from work-related illnesses nearly doubled last year, from 21 to 40. Some of these deaths are the result […]
Water, water everywhere
Morning File, Thursday, April 11, 2019
News 1. Feds announce environmental assessment for Boat Harbour plan Jennifer Henderson has the latest on the Boat Harbour cleanup plan. Yesterday, the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency announced it would be undertaking an environmental assessment. Henderson explains the lagoons are where tens of million of litres of daily effluent from the kraft pulp mill at […]
How many pink shirts will it take to fix this?
Morning File, Thursday, April 4, 2019
News 1. How many pink shirts will it take to fix this? A few days ago, the news broke that two former NDP cabinet members had complained about Zach Churchill’s behaviour while they were in office. One was Ramona Jennex, but the other wasn’t named. Now we know who it is: Denise Peterson-Rafuse (formerly my […]
Taxing Issues
Morning File, Wednesday, March 20, 2019
News 1. John Risley’s South African Adventure Out from behind the paywall: Tim’s epic piece on how Nova Scotia billionaire John Risley wound up in bed with an arms dealer suing the South African government over an apartheid-era contract. The short version: After his racing career, Portuguese Formula 1 driver Jorge Pinhol became an arms […]
The CODCO comedy troupe is criminally under-recognized
Morning File, Thursday, March 14, 2019
News 1. Lung transplant news Carolyn Ray has written an excellent series of stories for CBC on Nova Scotia lung transplant patients. Lungs are the only organs not transplanted in the province, and patients have to travel to Toronto for the procedure. The trouble is that lungs do not last long outside the body and […]
Poverty mentality… poverty reality
Morning File, Thursday, February 28, 2019
News 1. Poor kids On Tuesday, Statistics Canada released its most recent Canadian income survey, covering 2017. The agency uses two tools to calculate poverty, the Low Income Measure (“defines an individual as having low income if their adjusted after-tax income falls below 50% of the median adjusted after-tax income”) and the Market Basket Measure […]
Not feeling the love
Morning File, Thursday, February 14, 2019
News 1. Can we even discuss improving snow-clearing standards? In her latest column, Erica Butler looks at how implementation of the city’s Integrated Mobility Plan (IMP) keeps sliding down the list of priorities. Butler takes as an example Councillor Shawn Cleary’s seemingly reasonable request “for a report assessing the costs and benefits of tightening up […]
More Photos of Buildings and Food
Morning File, Thursday, January 17, 2019
I’m Philip Moscovitch, taking a break from the book I’m writing on Nova Scotia fermented foods and drinks to bring you today’s Morning File. News 1. Northern Pulp and us The Chronicle Herald begins a four-part series by Aaron Beswick on Northern Pulp today. The series looks at “what a permanent closure of the Northern […]