Recent news that Calgary-based Pieridae Energy’s has found a new engineering firm for its proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Goldboro, and worked out an agreement with a Calgary firm and the Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw Chiefs to build and operate a huge work camp at the site, has prompted headlines that suggest...
Nova Scotia is the only province that hasn’t unsealed adoption records
If the “Adopted in Nova Scotia” group on Facebook is any indication, nearly 5,000 people in this province are searching for either their birth parents or adult children who were placed with adoptive families. They are looking for clues to help answer questions that people raised by their biological parents don’t have to ask. Who...
Shopping while strolling
A report by Nova Scotia's Serious Incident Response Team clears Halifax police officers in the violent arrest of Santina Rao. But it doesn't even try to explain how what happened at the Walmart that day was allowed to become the confrontation that led to her arrest.
The purpose of a SiRT investigation is to determine whether the facts of a case, where the actions of police may have led to serious injury, justify the laying of criminal charges against a police officer… The totality of evidence clearly shows that the [Affected Person] was causing a disturbance in a public place by...
The biomass power shuffle
Not one sawmill in Nova Scotia has closed since Northern Pulp shut down; that's because the province's large biomass boilers are running flat-out
Despite dire warnings from the forestry industry when Northern Pulp shut down at the end of January, not one sawmill in Nova Scotia has closed. That’s the good news. The bad news is that in order to provide replacement markets for bark, woodchips, and sawmill waste, large biomass boilers in the province are running flat-out. ...
Halifax council allows appeal, overturning committee’s decision to approve Cunard block development
After a long presentation and a longer debate, regional council decided Southwest Properties’ 16-storey proposal for the waterfront was just too big and strayed too far from the rules. The city’s design review committee approved the plans in July. As the Examiner reported the next day: The site is known as the Cunard lot —...
Halifax council committee aims to make big box stores pay bigger tax bills
A committee of council voted in favour of a proposed differential tax rate system at its meeting on Monday, recommending that regional council make big box stores pay bigger tax bills. There are currently two commercial tax rates based on location: urban/suburban and rural. The urban and suburban rate is currently $3 per $100 of...
The fishery of frustration
The real reason for the recent confrontations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous fishers is that Ottawa has failed abysmally for more than two decades to negotiate with First Nations to define what constitutes a moderate living.
Mi’kmaw fishermen were frustrated. On Sept. 17, 1999, the Supreme Court of Canada had reaffirmed rights established in peace and freedom treaties with the British more than 200 years before. Those treaties had guaranteed them the right to fish and hunt and pursue what the court called, without explaining, a “moderate livelihood.” Two months later,...
Halifax council passes regulations for ride-hailing companies like Uber and Lyft
Ride-hailing companies like Uber and Lyft have received their final green light to start operating in Halifax. Regional council voted 13-4 in favour of taxi bylaw amendments to regulate ride-hailing companies, which the municipality calls transportation network companies, or TNCs, during its virtual meeting on Tuesday. Councillors Lindell Smith, Shawn Cleary, Stephen Adams and Richard...
Province changes QEII hospital parkade plans again, further encroaching on Halifax Common
The provincial government has updated its plans for a new parkade for the QEII hospital, and it’s now further encroaching on the Halifax Common. It’s the third plan for a parking garage on Summer Street as part of the QEII redevelopment project after the second one got council’s reluctant approval. The first plan would’ve seen...
Halifax auditor general finds city has no set timelines for building permits and inspections
Halifax has no clear timeline for the approval of building permits and inspections and its records are inaccurate, according to the latest report from the city’s auditor general. But the city has implemented 89% of the recommendations from Auditor General Evangeline Colman-Sadd’s 2018 reports on procurement and development approvals. Colman-Sadd tabled her office’s new audit...
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