News 1. Where’s the plan? Parents call on province to release back-to-school details A group of Nova Scotia parents have sent an open letter to Premier Stephen McNeil, calling on the province to make “children and their right to education” a priority in the province’s pandemic response plan, Yvette d’Entremont reports. While the other Atlantic […]
The NSHA’s STI clinic is closed. What does that mean for people who need testing?
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Visit the NSHA’s STI and STD clinic website, and you’re greeted by a message in big red letters: THE STI/STD CLINIC IS CLOSED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. WE APOLOGIES (sic) FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE. The health authority shut down the clinic early in the pandemic, and there […]
HRM: 5,490 square kilometres, 20 public toilets
Morning File, Wednesday, July 8, 2020
News 1. Council needs to step up on fighting anti-Black racism, says Senator Wanda Thomas Bernard In a half-hour presentation to council yesterday, Senator Wanda Thomas Bernard called on the city to go beyond statements and act on combating racism, Zane Woodford reports: The presentation, titled “Unpacking Anti‐Black Racism in the HRM: Creating Sustainable Change […]
The summer of play
Morning File, Friday, July 3, 2020
News 1. Cabinet roundup Jennifer Henderson offers a concise and informative roundup of the day’s news from virtual Province House, following yesterday’s cabinet meeting. The short version: the province and feds are still trying to work out the details of an inquiry into the April 18-19 mass murders, school may or may not be on […]
Calling police when someone is suffering a mental health crisis can have horrific consequences; what is the alternative?
In February 2014, Mohammed Eshaq fell to his death from the 10th-floor balcony of his South End Halifax apartment. Eshaq lived with schizophrenia, and was an in-patient at the Nova Scotia Hospital’s Simpson Landing at the time. He left on a 15-minute pass and didn’t go back, instead taking transit to his parents’ place. They […]
Rethinking stock photos
Morning File, Tuesday, June 30, 2020
News 1. 10,000 litres a day? Zane Woodford brings us the story of South End Halifax resident Aline Fineberg, who got a whopping water bill, based on her usage last fall. She normally uses about 112 litres of water a day. Now she was up to nearly 10,000. Woodford writes that that’s “enough water to […]
Professional wrestling’s Me Too moment hits Halifax
Morning File, Wednesday, June 24, 2020
News 1. Saltwire makes 109 layoffs permanent Three months ago, Saltwire, the publishing company that owns most of the newspapers in Atlantic Canada, temporarily laid off 40 percent of its workforce. Yesterday, the company made those layoffs permanent, Yvette d’Entremont reports. Sixty-one of those who have lost their jobs are in Nova Scotia. d’Entremont writes: […]
What will it take to restart film and TV production?
Morning File, Thursday, June 18, 2020
News 1. New class-action lawsuit proposed against RCMP and attorneys general of Canada, NS Families of those killed on April 18 and 19 in Nova Scotia are suing the RCMP, along with the attorneys general of Canada and Nova Scotia, for failings related to the mass murders. The suit is being brought by Patterson Law […]
We need to keep talking about racism
Morning File, Tuesday, June 16, 2020
News 1. Board of police commissioners’ meeting cancelled and other tales of non-transparency and lack of accountability El Jones writes about the cancellation of today’s Board of Police Commissioners meeting, ostensibly because — three months into the pandemic — they can’t figure out how to use Microsoft Teams. Jones writes: As the movement to defund […]
Who thinks Cornwallis would still be standing?
Morning File, Wednesday, June 10, 2020
News 1. When it comes to regulating police use of force, are council’s hands really tied? We’re leading this morning not with a straight news story, but an important commentary from Harry Critchley of the East Coast Prison Justice Society, and the Elizabeth Fry Society of Mainland Nova Scotia. Critchley recaps some key background on police […]
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