The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Amid a public health emergency that relies on people keeping six feet apart to halt the spread of COVID-19, a team is putting on a full court press to deal with one group of citizens. Housing Nova Scotia, the Halifax Regional Municipality, the YMCA, and […]
Someone called the cops on a Halifax family in a misguided attempt to enforce self-isolation
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. A Halifax woman says a neighbour called the police on her in a misguided attempt to enforce self-isolation of her and her family. We are granting her anonymity because she fears going public will bring more unwelcome attention to her situation. I spoke to her […]
Port Wallace Gamble: the real estate boom meets Nova Scotia’s toxic mine legacy
Part 3: Cleaning up the historic tailings from Montague Gold Mines – Does Port Wallace development hang in the balance?
This is the third and final article in a series about the toxic legacy from historic gold mines in Nova Scotia, which its citizens will be paying many millions of dollars to try to clean up, and how the contamination at just one of these sites — Montague Gold Mines in HRM — is affecting...
Port Wallace Gamble: the real estate boom meets Nova Scotia’s toxic mine legacy
Part 2: the suburb proposed to be built in the shadow of Montague Gold Mines
This is a story about the toxic legacy from historic gold mines in Nova Scotia, which its citizens will be paying many millions of dollars to try to clean up, and how the contamination at just one of these sites — Montague Mines in HRM — is still affecting us today. This, the second in...
Port Wallace Gamble: the real estate boom meets Nova Scotia’s toxic mine legacy
Part 1: The making of a toxic mess and the uncalculated costs of previous gold rushes.
This is Part 1 of a three-part story about the toxic legacy from historic gold mines in Nova Scotia, which its citizens will be paying many millions of dollars to try to clean up, and how the contamination at just one of these sites — Montague Mines in HRM — is still affecting lives today,...
Video shows Halifax police violently arresting 15-year-old
Names are withheld in this article to protect the identity of the youth. A disturbing video taken outside Bedford Place Mall on Friday evening shows the police using force against a 15-year-old Black youth. The short clip of the confrontation begins with the youth asserting, “I can go inside if I want to.” One of […]
Police commissioners wonder if they should “read the manual,” and other adventures in police oversight
If I had to pick an image to sum up my visits to the Board of Police Commissioners, it would be this one: I’m the kitty. My so-far futile yet determined efforts to engage with our democratic institutions continued on Monday, as I attended the latest Board of Police Commissioners meeting. On January 20, I […]
Hospital parkade on the move: HRM and province to discuss location on opposite side of street, protecting Common
“We want to see the hospital project proceed but we also want to protect the Common,” HRM Councillor Waye Mason told journalists following a meeting of city council Tuesday afternoon. Mason says he is “optimistic” that a “win-win” compromise could be in the works following a meeting late Friday afternoon between staff from the province...
City councillors approve increased police budget despite ongoing racial profiling
You don’t have to be Negrodamus to have predicted that the Halifax City Council would approve the police budget increase of about a million dollars, but even for the cynical the budget committee meeting on Wednesday demonstrated some surprising depths of unaccountability. Calls to freeze the police budget in response to the Halifax Regional Police’s […]
How the proposed Summer Street parking garage fits into province’s plan to replace the Victoria General Hospital
The largest infrastructure project in the province’s history got the once-over from the legislature’s Public Accounts Committee yesterday. It will be at least the end of 2026 before the patients putting up with what some doctors have described as “third world conditions” in the leaking Victoria General Hospital will be moved out. The bad news...
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