News 1. Halifax Examiner marks two-year anniversary of COVID in Nova Scotia Tuesday marked the two-year anniversary of COVID’s arrival in Nova Scotia. (Check out Yvette d’Entremont’s Pandemic Diary for a more detailed look at that innocent time). What followed — the pandemic, the mass murders of April 18/19, the worsening housing and homelessness crises […]
Pandemic drinking is no joke
Morning File, Tuesday, July 14, 2020
News 1. Where’s the plan? Parents call on province to release back-to-school details A group of Nova Scotia parents have sent an open letter to Premier Stephen McNeil, calling on the province to make “children and their right to education” a priority in the province’s pandemic response plan, Yvette d’Entremont reports. While the other Atlantic […]
A courageous mother’s act of forgiveness and a challenge to her son’s killer
Morning File, Monday, July 29, 2019
News 1. Israel and the Palestinians Stephen Kimber writes about Rana Zaman, a social activist and Pakistani immigrant, who until the end of June was the federal NDP candidate for Dartmouth-Cole Harbour. Until someone found old tweets Zaman wrote about Israel and its treatment of Palestinians. Frustrated by seeing what she described as “unarmed Palestinian […]