News 1. COVID For the first time in 2022, the province is reporting zero new deaths from COVID for the most recent reporting period, July 25-August 1. During the same reporting period, 54 people were hospitalized because of COVID. Nova Scotia Health provided the status of COVID hospitalizations as of yesterday: • in hospital for […]
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A history of arbourcide
Morning File, Tuesday, August 2, 2022
A history of arbourcide One night last week, someone broke into the Halifax Public Gardens and “cut rings of bark off of at least a dozen trees — some 100 years old or more,” reported Zane Woodford: “The Public Gardens are closed today due to an ongoing police investigation,” the institution tweeted. “It appears an […]
Remember when Premier Stephen McNeil gave $5 million of our money to Sandpiper Ventures to help women-led businesses in Atlantic Canada? A lot of that money went to Vancouver and Winnipeg
Morning File, Friday, July 29, 2022
News 1. Brian Johnston “The municipality denies that a former Halifax Regional Police officer sexually assaulted a teenaged girl in the early 1990s, but admits the same person later complained to police about the officer fathering her child,” reports Zane Woodford: As the Halifax Examiner reported in January, a plaintiff using the pseudonym X.Y. is […]
Irving Shipyard wants to fill in a 13-acre chunk of the Halifax Harbour
Morning File, Monday, July 25, 2022
News 1. Deal with the devil Writes Joan Baxter: Through its subsidiary Paper Excellence, the giant Asia Pulp & Paper conglomerate already controls much of Canada’s pulp industry. The company is now suing Nova Scotia for $450 million, and the new deal will expose Canadians to even more corporate litigation before judges who are not […]
Letting loose on ‘live, laugh, love’
Morning File, Friday, July 22, 2022
News 1. Cops at the Superstore I’ve noticed a lot of changes at local Superstores lately. There are more gates to go through at the entrances and there are barriers around the self-checkout area. All of the bins of food and product displays that used to be in the main entrances are gone. And as […]
What’s the point of the Mass Casualty Commission?
Morning File, Thursday, July 21, 2022
News 1. Mass Casualty Commission What’s the point? That’s the question I keep asking myself about the Mass Casualty Commission, as the commissioners, the many lawyers (so many, I’ve lost count), the relatives of the victims, the police, the academic experts, the reporters, and the public participate in the months-long inquiry. For sure, the inquiry […]
The mass murderer was a thief, a drug runner, and a corrupt tax cheat
The mass murderer was a thief, a drug runner, and a corrupt tax cheat. The financial “misdealings” of the man who murdered 22 people in Nova Scotia on April 18 and 19, 2022, who the Halifax Examiner refers to as GW, are detailed in the latest document published by the Mass Casualty Commission. The findings […]
Elizabeth May: the consolidation of the Canadian pulp industry is ‘a remarkable and ominous story’ covered only by Joan Baxter and the Halifax Examiner
Morning File, Monday, July 18, 2022
News 1. Mass Casualty Commission Lisa Banfield testified in person at the Mass Casualty Commission on Friday. I was in the room and followed the testimony on my Twitter feed, but needed to think about it before writing an article. In the meanwhile, Stephen Kimber stepped in and asked “What was it that lawyers for […]
The witchification of Lisa Banfield
There is a campaign of lies, innuendo, misogyny, and hatred directed against Lisa Banfield. The goal, apparently, is to destroy her. After the murders, Banfield completely cooperated with investigators. Banfield gave multiple interviews to the RCMP — two on April 19, 2020 (as she was being treated in the ambulance and again in her hospital […]
Hidden plastics: get your butts off the ground
Morning File, Friday, July 15, 2022
News 1. The RCMP says Brenda Forbes never reported the Portapique mass murderer for domestic abuse, but that story doesn’t add up The most recent documents from the Mass Casualty Commission look at the Portapique gunman’s history of violence toward his common-law spouse, Lisa Banfield (the Examiner refers to the killer as GW). This week, […]
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