News 1. Jen Powley: Turn the convention centre into affordable housing Writer and advocate Jen Powley takes a look at some of the ways the province could solve the issue of affordable housing. Powley talks about how Sydney, HRM, Bridgewater, Kentville, Yarmouth, Truro, and Wolfville could come together and ask the feds for money to build affordable housing, […]

News 1. COVID-19 update Tim Bousquet has an update on COVID-19. There are 11 new cases in Nova Scotia. Nine of those are in the Nova Scotia Heath Authority’s Central Zone and the other two are in the Northern Zone.  One of the cases in the Central Zone includes someone connected to Citadel High School. […]

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I was up later than usual working on this Morning File. I always write portions of it the night before, but usually wrap it up by 9 p.m. But last night, I was still working on it until almost midnight. Meanwhile, Tim Bousquet was messaging me about what to expect for stories in the morning […]

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News 1. Province rejects bail housing plans for women; spends $150,000 on electronic monitoring instead El Jones writes about the Department of Justice’s plan to spend $150,000 on electronic monitoring, even though the province’s Criminal Justice Transformation Group advised against it. Jones writes:   Members of the group’s bail committee who studied community solutions to incarceration informed the […]

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News 1. COVID update This item is written by Tim Bousquet. Yesterday, Premier Stephen McNeil and Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Robert Strang had a COVID-19 briefing with reporters, their first in two weeks. A few items of interest came up. First, Strang confirmed that the province is preparing to create “regional care centres” […]

News 1. Injunction issued to end threats and blockades against Sipekne’katik fishers Paul Withers at CBC reports on the temporary injunction issued by Justice James Chipman to stop blockades and end threats against Sipekne’katik band members fishing on the province’s southwest coast. The band applied for the injunction yesterday. As Wither reports, this injunction means the […]