November subscription drive It’s time for our annual November subscription drive, so all month I’ll be banging the subscription drum a bit more frequently and a bit louder. The Halifax Examiner is just over four years old. As owner, I run this business very conservatively. The Examiner is financially sound, there’s zero debt, all taxes […]
A man was killed in a 1998 explosion at the Irving refinery; afterwards, a safety report made recommendations that would “prevent a similar occurrence,” but 20 years later the refinery exploded again
Morning File, Wednesday, October 10, 2018
News 1. Refinery explosion Canadian Press reporters Holly McKenzie-Sutter and Brett Bundale interviewed Jonathan Wright, an American contractor who was working just 25 metres from the site of the explosion at the Irving Oil refinery Monday: First, Jonathan Wright heard a loud hissing. Then he was thrown to the ground and turned to see a wall of […]
Tidal energy investors and fish: the Minas Basin is full of sharks
Morning File, Wednesday, September 5, 2018
News 1. Nursing home legislation An NDP proposal would legislate minimum nursing home staffing levels and make public inspection reports, reports Jennifer Henderson. 2. Damage control at Cape Sharp Tidal Yesterday, Cape Sharp Tidal and Stacy Pineau of Emera issued the following statement: Cape Sharp Tidal continues to take positive steps in the process to establish ongoing […]
Poo in the water, and other calamities
Morning File, Friday, August 24, 2018
Good morning, folks. Erica Butler here at the Morningfile keyboard today. News 1. Burnside jail “The prisoner protest at the Burnside jail is in part sparked by the move to the direct supervision model,” reports El Jones: Both staff and prisoners say that the change to new day rooms has been disorganized, that there is […]
We could have given every person in Inverness $12,000 in financing; instead we gave $17 million in financing to one rich guy
Morning File, Monday, June 4, 2018
News 1. Public Accounts Writes Stephen Kimber: The Gormless Gang of the Fang-less Five Liberal members of the Public Accounts committee — the Liberal MLA/space-filler members of the committee are Gordon Wilson, Suzanne Lohnes-Croft, Ben Jessome, Brendan Maguire, and Hugh MacKay — would rather play reliable cheerleader for Premier Stephen McNeil than do their job. […]
The “breach of privacy” arrest looks like an exercise in misdirection
Morning File, Thursday, April 12, 2018
News 1. “Breach of privacy” Yesterday, the province announced that the Freedom of Information site had been “breached”: Government is working with Halifax Regional Police to investigate a breach of information on the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy (FOIPOP) website. Of the documents that were inappropriately accessed, less than four per cent, about […]
How to make money “helping” poor people (hint: don’t be poor). Morning File, Monday, March 5, 2018
1. The Horne case Writes Stephen Kimber: Neither Capital Health nor the Nova Scotia Health Authority has ever publicly apologized to [Gabrielle] Horne for years of bullying and harassment, while successive provincial governments chose to look the other way, giving carte blanche to the health authority to hire hugely expensive, by-the-hour outside lawyers to bully […]
Matt Whitman’s idiocy and free speech: Morning File, Tuesday, February 27, 2018
News 1. Windsor & Hantsport Railway “A Virginia businessman wants a piece of the action before the city can turn the old Windsor & Hantsport Railway into a trail,” writes Rick Grant: Robert T. Schmidt’s claim to all of the rail line is contested, and the province has gone to court to force him to maintain […]
Let’s daylight the other buried streams: Morning File, Tuesday, February 6, 2018
News 1. Needlessly institutionalized People have been locked into a psychiatric ward at the Nova Scotia Hospital for “no medical or legal reason,” says lawyer Vince Calderhead. Jennifer Henderson reports: The complainants in this four-year-old human rights complaint are two intellectually disabled adults (a third complainant died) who spent most of their adult lives locked […]
All the woes of the world: Morning File, Wednesday, January 24, 2018
News 1. Mainstreets Plan “Sometime in the 70s we should have hit peak ‘designing for the car’ days, because it was around then that people started to realize the pickle we were getting ourselves into by doing strictly that,” writes Examiner transportation columnist Erica Butler: But the reality is we just kept designing that way for […]