TwitterFacebookLinkedinTumblremailShare this storyNews 1. Five years The Halifax Examiner turns five years old today. On June 18, 2014, I made this site live and posted this video: Look how young I was! [cries] I had a pretty good idea where I wanted to take the Examiner, and I think it holds up: Much of the […]
The Halifax police department has a crisis of legitimacy
Morning File, Monday, June 17, 2019
TwitterFacebookLinkedinTumblremailShare this storyNews 1. The Halifax police department has a crisis of legitimacy Is there an unusually large number of Halifax cops who are crooks? I suspect there is an institutional culture that looks the other way and avoids confronting official misconduct, and that institutional culture therefore actually encourages even more misconduct. But of course […]
Nova Scotia health care by the numbers
TwitterFacebookLinkedinTumblremailShare this storyA rally organized by a citizen who started a Facebook group called “Nova Scotia Health Care Crisis” attracted about 75 people in front of the former library on Spring Garden Road Saturday afternoon. They included three frustrated emergency room doctors from Valley Regional Hospital who began a GoFundMe campaign to raise money for […]
What if we just gave Americans cash to come to Nova Scotia?
Crazy? Is it any crazier than pouring more millions of dollars into an American ferry, American docking facilities, American customs officers...?
TwitterFacebookLinkedinTumblremailShare this storyTwitterFacebookLinkedinTumblremailShare this storySay, here’s an idea. My idea isn’t quite the Chase-the-Ace, get-us-on-national-TV, fun-and-games scheme Tim suggested a few months back. “Simply toss 20 dollar bills from a helicopter above downtown Yarmouth,” he proposed as his own common sense alternative to pouring still more millions of our tax dollars into that bottomless ocean...
We’ll all be rich if we give Ben Cowan-Dewar an $18 million airport
Morning File, Friday, June 14, 2019
TwitterFacebookLinkedinTumblremailShare this storyNews 1. SIRT is not equipped to investigate rape by cops The Serious Incident Response Team (SIRT) is tasked with investigating police, but it has no written policies for preserving rape kit evidence and its investigators have no specialized training in dealing with victims of sexual assault. Reporter Maggie Rahr brings us the […]
The Archaeology of Loss
How industrial logging in the Mi’kmaq heartland is destroying a lot more than trees
TwitterFacebookLinkedinTumblremailShare this storyTwitterFacebookLinkedinTumblremailShare this story“We were in wonderful moose country now.” At least this is how Albert Bigelow Paine described the Nova Scotia landscape he and three others journeyed through in his 1908 book The Tent Dwellers. The book tells the true story of a June trout fishing trip led by two guides, Charlie Charlton...
Raped twice by the same cop
The Serious Incident Response Team is tasked with investigating police, but it has no written policies for preserving rape kit evidence and its investigators have no specialized training in dealing with victims of sexual assault.
TwitterFacebookLinkedinTumblremailShare this storyElizabeth had no expectations when she opened her email on a Monday morning in early February. But the words she read in the message received at 9:05am struck fear through her. As she stared at the screen, disbelief escalated into panic. “To date I have not heard back from you. After discussions with […]
Former Richmond CAO Kent MacIntyre’s fascinating career, and its collapse
Morning File, Thursday, June 13, 2019
TwitterFacebookLinkedinTumblremailShare this story1. Former Richmond CAO Kent MacIntyre’s fascinating career, and its collapse The Richmond County council fired Chief Administrative Officer Kent MacIntyre during a closed session meeting on April 1, 2019. The vote was three to two, with councillors Brian Marchand, Gilbert Boucher, and Alvin Martell voting in favour of firing, and councillors Jason […]
The problem with meritocracy: it destroys our humanity
Morning File, Wednesday, June 12, 2019
TwitterFacebookLinkedinTumblremailShare this storyNews 1. Studenting While Black “On June 2, Black graduate student Shelby McPhee was accused by two white women of stealing a laptop while he was attending the Black Canadian Studies Association session at the 88th annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences held at the University of British Columbia,” writes El Jones: […]
Studenting While Black: another example of calling the cops on Black people for simply existing
Despite the outsize media coverage devoted to the idea that universities are filled with Black and brown people oppressing the free speech of white men, in fact, universities remain overwhelmingly hostile to Black people.
TwitterFacebookLinkedinTumblremailShare this storyOn June 2, Black graduate student Shelby McPhee was accused by two white women of stealing a laptop while he was attending the Black Canadian Studies Association session at the 88th annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences held at the University of British Columbia. The white women, Congress attendees, asked to see […]
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