TwitterFacebookLinkedinGoogle+TumblremailShare this storyNews 1. Maurice Pratt Yesterday, Justice James Chipman dismissed Maurice Pratt’s habeas corpus application. Pratt was the first of at least eight prisoners at the Burnside jail to have their habeas applications heard by Chipman. (The others are scheduled for Monday, but I’m hearing there may be a delay.) The prisoners filed their […]
Great white sharks are killing people and they’re coming to Nova Scotia
Morning File, Wednesday, September 19, 2018
TwitterFacebookLinkedinGoogle+TumblremailShare this storyNews 1. Deaths in custody Yesterday morning, I reported that an official at the Burnside jail had testified in court that “several” prisoners at the jail have died over the past week. I knew about the death of Joshua Evans, a man with a mental disability who took his own life, but no […]
As reliable as a beer commercial
Morning File, Tuesday, September 18, 2018
TwitterFacebookLinkedinGoogle+TumblremailShare this storyErica Butler here, helping out with Morningfile today. Fear not, Tim’s still all over it. News 1. Burnside jail Tim reports from the hearing for Burnside jail prisoner Maurice Pratt, continuing to shed light on the situation in the facility. Prisoners launched a protest in August asking for better conditions at the jail, […]
Habeas corpus hearing illuminates jail conditions
TwitterFacebookLinkedinGoogle+TumblremailShare this storyHighlights from this story: • a prison official agreed with the statement that “several” prisoners at the Burnside jail have died in the past week * (see note below) • the three-week lockdown at the jail started when an inmate allegedly said that “someone is going to die” after the peaceful protest was […]
Africville in Black and White: “hybrid performative piece” about Africville premieres tonight
TwitterFacebookLinkedinGoogle+TumblremailShare this story I was heartened to spend time this summer with Black scholar Chana Kai Lee who arrived in Halifax to conduct research on, among other topics, Africville. Now home, the associate professor of history and African American Studies at the University of Georgia recalled her experience at the Africville Museum. “My visit affirmed […]
“Networking” by its very nature is exclusionary
Morning File, Monday, September 17, 2018
TwitterFacebookLinkedinGoogle+TumblremailShare this storyNews 1. Acadia and Rick Mehta “The university {Acadia] had good reasons to fire Rick Mehta,” writes Stephen Kimber: But by conflating and commingling those reasons with specious arguments about its own reputation and seeming to accept the notion Mehta shouldn’t be allowed to share his wrong-headed rants on social media or challenge […]
Rick Mehta: Acadia clarifies, commingles, confuses
The Mehta case isn't about free speech. And it's not the exercise of academic freedom. It is a professor in a position of power publicly bullying his own students for his amusement and the adulation of his followers. Reason enough to fire him. But...
TwitterFacebookLinkedinGoogle+TumblremailShare this storyTwitterFacebookLinkedinGoogle+TumblremailShare this story Start with this. I am no longer conflicted about Acadia University’s decision to fire psychology professor Rick Mehta. The university had plenty of good reasons to dismiss him. On the other hand, I am still troubled by Acadia’s willingness to stir its own self-interest — “damaging the reputation of the...
True love: KFC, a bottle of Vodka, Sun Chips, and a copy of the Uranus Examiner
Morning File, Friday, September 14, 2018
TwitterFacebookLinkedinGoogle+TumblremailShare this storyNews 1. South Shore bus service “Starting this week,” writes Examiner transportation columnist Erica Butler, “Maritime Bus now offers three trips day, seven days a week, from Halifax to south shore destinations like Chester, Bridgewater, and Lunenburg.” And hopefully, the provincial and municipal governments involved will get on board with promoting the heck […]
“Pig in a poke”: die-hard proponents want to open Nova Scotia to fracking
TwitterFacebookLinkedinGoogle+TumblremailShare this storyTwitterFacebookLinkedinGoogle+TumblremailShare this storyAbout 200 people gathered last evening in Pugwash, filling the Northumberland Community Curling Club for a debate framed around the resolution “fracking will be beneficial to Cumberland County.” The audience was, not surprisingly, clearly divided between those in favour and those against. For many, including several members of the Nova Scotia...
Three buses a day now connect Halifax and the South Shore. Let’s make sure the service works.
TwitterFacebookLinkedinGoogle+TumblremailShare this storyTwitterFacebookLinkedinGoogle+TumblremailShare this storyWell, I’ll be darned. While Saskatchewan mourns the loss of its extensive regional bus service (shut down by an austerity budget in 2017), and while Greyhound pulls out what remains of its routes in western Canada, Nova Scotia is testing out subsidized regional bus transit. That’s a very good thing. If...
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