News 1. Northern Pulp’s sci-fi future This item is written by Joan Baxter. It’s all supposed to be decided in just 83 days. Yesterday, Nova Scotia Environment announced that it had received the focus report for Northern Pulp’s proposed effluent treatment plant, which was required after former environment minister Margaret Miller announced in March that […]
The hanging of Daniel Sampson: Morning File, Tuesday, December 5, 2017
News 1. IMP “The city has dropped its Integrated Mobility Plan (IMP), a hefty 193-page document designed to help Halifax achieve its Regional Plan target of reducing the share of trips we all make in private vehicles,” reports Erica Butler: In 2006, council set a goal to reduce vehicle trips down to 70 per cent […]
Two-thousand dead, and we’ve learned no lessons from the Explosion: Morning File, Monday, December 4, 2017
News 1. The Mulroney Institute, St. Francis Xavier University, and the honorary arms dealers Writes Stephen Kimber: The former prime minister has had many “good” friends, many of whom pop up in leaks of information about tax havens. Many of those same names — surprise — also figure prominently in helping underwrite the soon-to-be Mulroney Institute. […]
There should be a moratorium on police checks: Morning File, Wednesday, January 11, 2017
News 1. Street checks Halifax councillor Lindell Smith says he has been stopped by the police often: “I’ve had issues where police followed me, or police have pulled me over and asked questions that really had nothing to do with what I was doing,” he said. “Of course your mind goes to, is it racism? […]
Council candidates answer two questions
I’ve asked two questions of candidates: 1. Will you support a living wage ordinance? (background here and here) 2. If elected, what single thing would you want to accomplish as councillor (or mayor)? The candidates’ unedited responses follow. I’ll update this page as I receive more responses Use these links to jump ahead to specific […]