News 1. COVID For the first time in 2022, the province is reporting zero new deaths from COVID for the most recent reporting period, July 25-August 1. During the same reporting period, 54 people were hospitalized because of COVID. Nova Scotia Health provided the status of COVID hospitalizations as of yesterday: • in hospital for […]
It’s been 12 years since Joe Ramia won the contest for the convention centre, and the deal still looks shady af
Morning File, Friday, June 3, 2022
News 1. Corey Rogers “A Nova Scotia Supreme Court justice has acquitted the former Halifax Regional Police special constables who booked Corey Rogers in cells the night he died,” reports Zane Woodford: “While the death of Corey Rogers is sad and tragic, it did not come as the result of criminal negligence,” Justice James Chipman […]
The Design Review Committee just chucked the HRM By Design rules out the window; now let’s pretend the Centre Plan matters
Morning File, Friday, November 15, 2019
November subscription drive Once again, I’m running out of time to cajole and beg for new subscriptions. However, Iris insists that I remind readers that if you buy an annual subscription this month, we will give you an Examiner T-shirt. Here’s one modelled by my friend Lisa Osmond: Also, I’ll have more details Monday, but […]
The Halifax Examiner turns five years old today
Morning File, Tuesday, June 18, 2019
News 1. Five years The Halifax Examiner turns five years old today. On June 18, 2014, I made this site live and posted this video: Look how young I was! [cries] I had a pretty good idea where I wanted to take the Examiner, and I think it holds up: Much of the content on […]
Fox Hill Market & Deli is accused of “extortion” of immigrant workers
Fox Hill Market & Deli on Robie Street in Halifax is accused of being in violation of immigration laws. The allegations are made by Eric Topping, an officer with the Criminal Investigations Section of the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), and are contained in court documents obtained by the Halifax Examiner. The Fox Hill Market […]
Telling the story of Glen Assoun’s wrongful conviction: we need your help
Morning File, Wednesday, April 17, 2019
1. Armoured vehicle This is a short Morning File today because I was busy at court most of the day yesterday (see below) and because I’m kind of riled up about the city’s purchase of an armoured vehicle for the police. I wrote a little Twitter rant about the latter while I was eating dinner […]
A mega development on Lake Banook shows that the Centre Plan is a cruel joke
Morning File, Wednesday, April 10, 2019
News 1. Mercury, Canso Chemicals, Northern Pulp Mill Facilities associated with Northern Pulp Mill’s proposed effluent pipe are immediately adjacent to a mercury-contaminated toxic waste site left over from the Canso Chemicals operation. Joan Baxter explains: The Canso Chemicals plant opened in 1970, and for the next 22 years used large amounts of mercury to […]
The people lobbying the province for a stadium aren’t registered as lobbyists
Morning File, Friday, June 15, 2018
News 1. Stadium lobbyists aren’t registered as lobbyists Canadian Press reporter Judy Owen caught up with CFL commissioner Randy Ambrosie at the Winnipeg–Edmonton game last night (Edmonton prevailed, 33-30), and Ambrosie went on about the possibility of a Halifax team: “The conversations between ourselves and the Maritime Football group continue,” Ambrosie said. “We’re doing work on their business […]
Smiling bastards and a necropolis nursery: Morning File, Monday, October 3, 2016
News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Upper Canadian concrete and glass right down to the water line In “Fisherman’s Wharf,” his lament for a disappearing Halifax, Stan Rogers sang: I looked from the Citadel down to the Narrows and asked what it’s coming to I saw Upper Canadian concrete and glass […]
Your name here: Which company will jump at the opportunity to be associated with obliterating the Morse’s Teas sign?
What company will jump at the opportunity to be associated with obliterating a piece of Halifax history? We’ll soon find out: A banner atop of what was once the Morse’s Teas sign announces that a lucky tenant of the building can put its company name on the historic site. Readers will recall that on […]