Welcome to our 52nd Weekend File! One year of weekly article compilations. Jump to sections: Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday, June 25 Atlantic Gold’s parent company hints it may halt its Nova Scotia operation Joan Baxter had the latest on Atlantic Gold and its plans (maybe) for a mine in […]
Nova Scotia’s second busiest emergency department is dealing with record-breaking overcapacity
The chief of the province’s second busiest emergency department says record-breaking overcapacity issues are making it increasingly difficult for them to fill the gaps of a primary care system in crisis. “Our capacity at best is probably 140 a day, and we’ve been averaging over 150 a day fairly regularly and more in the last […]
What’s the “one small habit” that keeps a man organized? A wife
Morning File, Thursday, June 30, 2022
News 1. Sable Island fog Paul Withers at CBC recently visited Sable Island where scientists are there for an international study on how to predict fog, which poses a lot of challenges for meteorology. Project leader Joe Fernando of Notre Dame University told Withers they chose Sable Island because it’s one of the foggiest places […]
Stuck on stick: clinging to the manual in an automatic world
Morning File, Wednesday, June 29, 2022
News 1. Mass Casualty Commission: letter to RCMP Commissioner critical of political pressure during investigation Jennifer Henderson has the latest story from the Mass Casualty Commission. Last week, Henderson and the Halifax Examiner broke a story that suggested the head of the national RCMP, at the behest of the federal Liberal Party, potentially compromised an […]
Halifax council votes to plan for Centennial Pool replacement, support universal basic income, and more
When Halifax finally builds a competition-ready pool, it might not be on the peninsula. And that’s fine by the area councillors. Coun. Waye Mason brought a multi-faceted motion to council on Tuesday aiming to get staff moving on a “deep dive” into a new 50-metre pool for the municipality: That Halifax Regional Council direct the […]
Group wants heritage designation for house of Nova Scotia’s first Black doctor
A local historian says the city should preserve a home where the province’s first Black physician, Dr. Clement Ligoure, operated a clinic and helped victims of the Halifax Explosion. Last Saturday, Development Options Halifax, a group that says it’s working to preserve the city’s historic, cultural and social identity, and design, hosted a tour through […]
Letter to RCMP Commissioner Lucki rebuked her for trying to influence messaging after mass murders
Editor’s note: after this article was published, the Mass Casualty Commission tabled the letter from Lia Scanlan to RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki, placing it on the commission website. You can read it here. The ongoing public inquiry into the mass murders of April 2020 is supposed to help us understand what happened and make recommendations […]
The casual ableism of cooking snobbery
Morning File, Tuesday, June 28, 2022
News 1. Pat Dunn “didn’t exactly anticipate” backlash his appointment would cause Matthew Byard interviews African Nova Scotian Affairs minister Pat Dunn, almost a year after his appointment. Dunn says he was surprised by the backlash that followed his naming to the post: Dunn told the Examiner he was appointed as minister of African Nova […]
Dunn says he ‘didn’t exactly anticipate the backlash’ after he was appointed as minister of African Nova Scotian Affairs
Minister of African Nova Scotian Affairs Pat Dunn spoke to the Halifax Examiner last week about the work of the office and the “backlash” he faced after his appointment in the fall. Following last summer’s provincial election, the Examiner was first to ask ‘Who will be the next minister of African Nova Scotian Affairs?’ after […]
Books about Black history, Black Canadians highlight of Delmore “Buddy” Daye Learning Institute event
Books about Black Canadians and Black history were among many highlights of the Delmore “Buddy” Daye Learning Institute’s (DBDLI) Report to the Community, which took place Thursday night at the Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia in Cherry Brook. “Our institute’s commitment to being a leading publisher of Africentric resources is evidenced through growth of […]
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