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 […]
Drinking our way through the pandemic isn’t a great idea
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. The jokes are out there. The quarantini (mix quarantine with martini) is now the drink of choice for the self isolated. It’s always beer/wine o’clock because who knows what time it is anymore. But how are people’s alcohol consumption habits changing because of the COVID-19 […]
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 […]