Welcome to Weekend File, where you’ll find links to all the articles you might have missed last week. Jump to sections in this article: Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Sunday, November 28 1. Nova Scotia Power: changing standards to match declining performance The power company hasn’t met regulator-required customer service and reliability […]
About Suzanne Rent
The dirt on Black Oxygen Organics’ MLM scheme
Morning File, Friday, December 3, 2021
News 1. “People just liked to see him and they gravitated towards him” Yvette d’Entremont tells us about Dereck (Rick) Day. He’s the 67-year-old man who died in hospital after he was hit by a driver while walking on Sylvia Avenue in Spryfield on Friday night. D’Entremont spoke with Day’s longtime friend, Matt Dempsey, who […]
Minding your mental health in the hospitality industry
Morning File, Monday, November 29, 2021
There are only two days left in our November subscription drive. We published 30 articles last week. That included meaty Morning Files and investigative reports. That’s a lot for our small team. And I know we have a lot more articles in the queue for this week. Support from our readers means we can keep […]
Weekend File
Articles we published the week of November 20 to 26, 2021.
Welcome to Weekend File, where you’ll find links to all the articles you might have missed last week. Jump to sections in this article: Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday, November 20 1. Residents stage protest to get drivers to slow down on Robie Street Steve MacKay took to the streets […]
Filling the need at food banks in North Dartmouth
Morning File, Thursday, November 25, 2021
News 1. Driver kills woman in Dartmouth crosswalk A 27-year-old woman died from injuries she received on Wednesday after she was hit by a driver in a crosswalk on Pleasant Street in Dartmouth. A news release from Halifax Regional Police said the 41-year-old driver was issued a summary offence ticket for failing to yield to […]
What does the term “affordable housing” really mean?
The traditional definition of affordable housing is often calculated as 30% of pretax income. But a new assessment tool created by a team at UBC's Housing Research Collaborative can help governments learn what they really need for housing stock.
Researchers with the Housing Research Collaborative at University of British Columbia have created a tool to help cities figure out how much affordable housing stock they need. Carolyn Whitzman is a social housing policy consultant and one of the researchers behind the Housing Assessment Resource Tools (HART), a project that creates standardized ways to figure […]
Residents stage protest to get drivers to slow down on Robie Street
Steve MacKay has been asking the city for years to do something about drivers who speed and run stop signs. On Friday, he and his neighbours took to the streets themselves.
Steve MacKay has had enough with speeders on his street in north end Halifax. On Friday afternoon at 2:30pm, while he was working from home and watching his young son, two vehicles crashed near his house on Robie and Stanley streets. MacKay went outside and learned one of the drivers ran a stop […]
Weekend File
All the articles we published from November 14 to 19, 2021.
Welcome to Weekend File, where you’ll find links to all the articles you might have missed last week. Jump to sections in this article: Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Sunday, November 14 Physician assistants: a fast easy small fix for what ails our health system The Canadian Association of Physician Assistants […]
The houses Henry J. Harris built
Morning File, Tuesday, November 16, 2021
It’s November and we’re still in our annual subscription drive. As you may have noticed, we’ve been sharing stories from subscribers about why they subscribe and what they enjoy about the Examiner. It’s been interesting to read their insights. I think one of my favourite stories was from Vel Oakes who said she enjoyed the […]
To Betty White, my Cape Breton grandmother, and all the Golden Girls
Betty White was trending on Twitter last week. Just in case you don’t know who White is, she’s the actress, comedienne, and animal rights activist whose career in show business spans eight decades. She worked in radio, variety shows, game shows, and sitcoms like The Mary Tyler Moore Show. I first learned about White from […]
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