TwitterFacebookLinkedinTumblremailShare this storyNews 1. Liberals win enough seats to form minority government With national voter turnout clocking in around 65.8% (it will adjust as those who registered on election day are counted) and Nova Scotia’s turnout slightly higher at 68.8%, Canadians re-elected 157 Liberal MPs, enough to form a minority government. In Nova Scotia, Liberals […]
Roy Building to rich woman: You’ve defaulted on your condo purchase. Rich woman to The Roy: You’ve got a substandard, incomplete building
TwitterFacebookLinkedinTumblremailShare this storyTwitterFacebookLinkedinTumblremailShare this storyA pair of duelling lawsuits have been filed related to a much-delayed Barrington Street development. On one side of the legal battle is The Roy Building Limited, the company formed by Toronto bazillionaire Louis Reznick to building the fancifully named 16-storey Roy Building, which replicates the facade of the 1940s-era building...
Shawn Cleary wants to ban bull riding in Halifax
Morning File, Monday, October 21, 2019
TwitterFacebookLinkedinTumblremailShare this storyNews 1. Street checks “On Friday, Justice Minister Mark Furey announced that street checks would be permanently banned following a legal opinion written by former Nova Scotia Chief Justice Michael MacDonald and researcher Jennifer Taylor that concluded street checks are illegal,” writes El Jones: We should, of course, not have needed this opinion […]
Stephen McNeil’s Collective Bargaining Game
The thing about this game — as the government demonstrated last week when it changed the law to take away Crown prosecutors' collective bargaining rights — is that McNeil always wins. That's the way the game works. Always.
TwitterFacebookLinkedinTumblremailShare this storyTwitterFacebookLinkedinTumblremailShare this story Let’s play a game. A shell game. You say it’s not a game to you. I say it’s always a game, and I always win. That’s the game. You say no one told you we were even playing. That’s part of the game too. I get to decide when it’s...
From the inside: I’m a prisoner and I vote
TwitterFacebookLinkedinTumblremailShare this story This is the first of what will be an occasional series featuring the voices of prisoners in their own words. J.C. is in a federal prison. The plea from politicians is that “citizens need to get out and vote” and that “every vote counts!” Every vote is valuable. But what is the actual […]
Street checks are banned. Now what?
TwitterFacebookLinkedinTumblremailShare this storyOn Friday, Justice Minister Mark Furey announced that street checks would be permanently banned following a legal opinion written by former Nova Scotia Chief Justice Michael MacDonald and researcher Jennifer Taylor that concluded street checks are illegal. We should, of course, not have needed this opinion to ban checks, which the Black community […]
Nature Trust fills in the “gap” of the Blue Mountain – Birch Cove Lakes Wilderness
Morning File, Friday, October 18, 2019
TwitterFacebookLinkedinTumblremailShare this storyNews 1. Assoun evidence Last night, I wrote about “the long and absurdly strange journey I’ve taken to access what should be readily available public records” — the evidence presented at trial in 1999 to convict Glen Assoun of the murder of Brenda Way. Court evidence is typically public. But in the case […]
The Halifax police department is going to great lengths to prevent you from knowing how Glen Assoun was wrongfully convicted
TwitterFacebookLinkedinTumblremailShare this storyWith very limited exceptions (national security, for instance), we do not have secret court evidence in Canada. We have the exact opposite: an Open Court Principle. I wrote about the Open Court Principle after the Halifax Examiner, the CBC, and the Canadian Press prevailed in our effort to get court documents unsealed in […]
Want $65,000? Just write a letter!
Morning File, Thursday, October 17, 2019
TwitterFacebookLinkedinTumblremailShare this storyNews 1. You can have the right to strike; just don’t try to use it. Yesterday, the provincial government showed its continued labour relations finesse — this time in its negotiations with crown attorneys. The crowns want a 17% pay increase over four years. The province is offering 7%. Yesterday, while most of […]
Joan Kuyek: Our job is to take our governments back from the mining interests
TwitterFacebookLinkedinTumblremailShare this storyJoan Kuyek, one of this country’s most distinguished community organizers and analysts of the mining industry, will be in Nova Scotia this weekend to promote her new book, Unearthing justice: how to protect your community from the mining industry. In 1999, Kuyek co-founded MiningWatch Canada, and was its national coordinator until 2009. She […]
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