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HRM: 5,490 square kilometres, 20 public toilets

Morning File, Wednesday, July 8, 2020

July 8, 2020 By Philip Moscovitch 4 Comments

News 1. Council needs to step up on fighting anti-Black racism, says Senator Wanda Thomas Bernard In a half-hour presentation to council yesterday, Senator Wanda Thomas Bernard called on the city to go beyond statements and act on combating racism, Zane Woodford reports: The presentation, titled “Unpacking Anti‐Black Racism in the HRM: Creating Sustainable Change […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: abolish nuclear weapons, Ashoka Mukpo, Carolyn Ray, Councillor Lindell Smith, councillor Tony Mancini, defund police, depression, domestic violence, factory farming, food systems, Ian Mosby, Joseph Rotblat, living wage policy, Marcus Gee, mental health, mental illness, municipal public toilets, Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA), public toilets, Pugwash Peace Conferences, school reopening, Shannon Proudfoot, Stephen Augustine, Thinkers Lodge Pugwash, Uncover: Dead Wrong podcast, World Bank

The cruelty of a cashless society

Morning File, Wednesday, January 29, 2020

January 29, 2020 By Philip Moscovitch 5 Comments

News 1. City HR department lies about progress in implementing recommendations to address racism and discrimination A staff report that came to council yesterday says the city drastically overstated progress being made on implementing the recommendations of a 2016 report on the racism faced by Black municipal workers. Zane Woodford reports: A few months after […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andrea McGuire, Carolyn Ray, cashless ban, Charles Inglis, Communities, Communities Culture and Heritage (CCH), coronavirus, councillor Waye Mason, Craig Steven Wilder, David Banfield, ditch tax, Emily Lawrence, Francis Campbell, Halifax Water, Kim Hart Macneill, King's College and slavery, Mark Hodgins, Megan McBride, Nicole Munro, North End Community Health Centre, parking garage Summer Street, Premier Stephen McNeil, QEII redevelopment, SALT, scratch and sniff, slavery in Halifax, The Bus Stop Theatre, universities and slavery

Halifax heritage: Disappearing from the top down

Morning File, Friday, January 10, 2020

January 10, 2020 By Suzanne Rent 3 Comments

News 1. Northern Pulp We have two articles about Northern Pulp this morning. The first, by Jennifer Henderson, looks at Northern Pulp’s announcement that it will continue to operate as a business in Nova Scotia and is continuing with the environmental assessment for its proposed effluent pipe into the Northumberland Strait. As well, Henderson looks […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alan Blackwood, Ali Nafarieh, Canso spaceport, Carolyn Ray, doctors, Elizabeth Cushing, Elizabeth MacMillan, Fatemeh Mahmoodi, freelancing, Garreth MacDonald, Gary Ernst, Glace Bay Minor Hockey, hockey fundraising, hydrazine, Iranian plane crash, James Edwards, Kyle Moore, Mandieh Ghavi, Maritime Launch Services (MLS), Maryam Malek, Masoumeh Ghavi, Minister Randy Delorey, minor hockey, NASA, Sackville Minor Hockey Association, Sean Fitzgerald, space fraud, Stephen Archibald and decorative details, Steve Matier, U.S. Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez, United Paradyne Corporation, wait lists

Euphemism watch: Jails are now “prisoner care facilities”

Morning File, Tuesday, December 3, 2019

December 3, 2019 By Erica Butler 5 Comments

News 1. Health care funding Canadian premiers met Monday and issued a call for a 5.2% annual bump in the Canada Health Transfer, among other demands. Andrea Gunn reported on the meeting for the Chronicle Herald: Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil said he wasn’t sure whether a 5.2 per cent increase would be sufficient to […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: AIDS, Andrea Gunn, Canada Health Transfer, Carolyn Ray, councillor Steve Adams, Dartmouth General Hospital, David Burke, David Fleming, DeRico Symonds, Dino Capital Ltd, Donna Hatt, Jim Vibert, John McPhee, Judy Saunders, lobbyist registry, Lyme disease, Mark Numer, MassBiologics, MLA Susan Leblanc, Northern Pulp, police misconduct, pre-exposure prophylaxis, Premier Stephen McNeil, Prisoner Care Facility (jail), Serious Incident Response Team (SIRT), Tsimkilis family

A courageous mother’s act of forgiveness and a challenge to her son’s killer

Morning File, Monday, July 29, 2019

July 29, 2019 By Suzanne Rent 1 Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: alcohol abuse, alcohol consumption, Ally Garber, Barb Johnson, Bicycle Nova Scotia, Brian Martell, Carolyn Ray, Chris Catherine Cochrane, cycling, Dale Russell, Deva Station, Devin Moore, Doctors Nova Scotia, Elle Noir, Emma Norton, Gary Foley, homophobic graffiti, Horizon Health Network, Jason Spurrell, Karen Carter, Mairin Prentiss, medical clinic no-show policies, Nicole Munro, Oceanbreeze, Quinpool Road bridge closure, Rana Zaman, Ravines Medical Centre, Rouge Fatale, Steve MacLeod, Tim Gottschall, Triston Reece, Yvette d'Entremont

A bad day for people on bikes

Morning File, Thursday, July 25, 2019

July 25, 2019 By Erica Butler 9 Comments

News 1.  Two collisions send two cyclists to hospital A pick-up truck driver who hit a cyclist on Waverley Road Wednesday morning has been charged with “Vehicle Passing a Bicycle while Travelling on Right When There is Less than 1 Metre between the Vehicle and Cyclist” according to the RCMP. The cyclist was taken to […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: bike lanes, bus lanes, Carolyn Ray, Chignecto Isthmus, climate change, cyclist struck John Brackett Drive, cyclist struck Waverley Road, David Burke, drive-by shootings, handguns, Jacob Boon, micromobility lanes, OCEARCH, Philip Croucher, sea level rise, transit fares, Tristan Cleveland, vehicle/cyclist collision

The CODCO comedy troupe is criminally under-recognized

Morning File, Thursday, March 14, 2019

March 14, 2019 By Philip Moscovitch 5 Comments

News 1. Lung transplant news Carolyn Ray has written an excellent series of stories for CBC on Nova Scotia lung transplant patients. Lungs are the only organs not transplanted in the province, and patients have to travel to Toronto for the procedure. The trouble is that lungs do not last long outside the body and […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: accessibility, Andrew Burke, Andy Jones, Bob Joy, Canada Food Guide, Carolyn Ray, Cathy Jones, Chris Pallies, climate action strike, CODCO, disabilities, Francis Campbell, Fridays for the Future, Greg Malone, Greta Thunberg, Harold Kennedy, Kids in the Hall, King Kong Bundy, lung transplants, Margot Aldrich, Mary Walsh, Meredith Chiasson, Mike Jones, Minister Margaret Miller, Minister Randy Delorey, mobility issues, New Scott, Nigel Markham, plastic bag ban, professional wrestling, Samuel Chun, Scott Thompson, Shawn Michaels, Sylvain Charlebois, Tommy Sexton, Troy Merrick, Zuppa Theatre

Pedestrian safety: Drivers need to do better

Morning File, Tuesday, February 26, 2019

February 26, 2019 By Suzanne Rent 11 Comments

Hi, I’m Suzanne Rent and I’m filling in for Tim this morning. You can follow me on Twitter @Suzanne_Rent News 1. Cogswell plan needs more input, group says Council will vote today on design plans for the Cogswell Interchange, reports Francis Campbell at The Chronicle Herald. The plan includes commercial and residential space, green and […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alex Khasnabish, April MacIntyre, Barho fire, Carolyn Ray, Cogswell Interchange, Councillor Jennifer Watts, councillor Matt Whitman, councillor Richard Zurawski, councillor Steve Adams, Councillor Steve Craig, councillors running for other offices, crosswalk safety, Dr. Daria Manos, Francis Campbell, Heads Up Halifax, Jean Laroche, Kate Watson, living wage, lung cancer, Matthew Gerald Kennedy, online hatred, panel on intercultural learning, Patty Cuttell, Province House mysterious vault, Sarah Ritchie, Scott Brison, wave of death

Another day in Halifax: resignations, engtanglements, and delays

Morning File, Tuesday, July 31, 2018

July 31, 2018 By Erica Butler 3 Comments

Hi folks, Erica Butler here filling in for Tim today. News 1. Halifax to lose another director: Bruce Zvaniga resigns Director of transportation and public works Bruce Zvaniga has resigned, reports Zane Woodford of The Star/Metro. Zvaniga has only been at the helm of the massive public works department since 2015. Zvaniga is the third […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: ambulance availability, Bruce Zvaniga, Carolyn Ray, Cheryl Thompson, Community Services, Councillor David Hendsbee, entangled right whale, Erica Butler, Fiona Traynor, Kolten MacDonnell, medical transitioning, Michael Nickerson, Nuisance Bylaw, paramedics union, Robert Devet, Sam Austin, Tim Outhit, Tom Ayers, Zane Woodford

Rescued whale, stoned dogs, and mere busybodies: Morning File, Tuesday, January 2, 2018

January 2, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 9 Comments

News 1. The Desmond file “One year ago tomorrow, on January 3, 2017, 33-year-old Lionel Desmond parked his car on a logging road in Upper Big Tracadie, NS, just as the sun was setting,” writes Stephen Kimber: Armed with two rifles, including an SKS semi-automatic Soviet military weapon he’d bought a few days earlier at […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: busybodies, Carolyn Ray, CFL stadium skepticism, Derek Martin, Dwight Isenor, Fall River asphalt plant, Francis Campbell, Jeff Goodall, Justice Thomas Cromwell, Marina von Stackelberg, Ralph's Place goodbye, Stacey Rudderham, stoned dogs, Supreme Court Justice Christa Brothers, whale rescue

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2020 mass murders

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In 1995, Brenda Way was brutally murdered behind a Dartmouth apartment building. In 1999, Glen Assoun was found guilty of the murder. He served 17 years in prison, but steadfastly maintained his innocence. In 2019, Glen Assoun was fully exonerated.

Halifax Examiner founder and investigative journalist Tim Bousquet has followed the story of Glen Assoun's wrongful conviction for over five years. Now, Bousquet tells that story as host of Season 7 of the CBC podcast series Uncover: Dead Wrong.

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Episode 80 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Singer-songwriter Willie Stratton has wandered a number of genre paths, starting with raw acoustic folk as a teen phenom, moving through surf rock as Beach Bait, and landing in a Roy Orbison-style classic country on his new album Drugstore Dreamin’. Ahead of his release show at the Marquee on Friday, he stops in to explain why mixing influences makes the best art, how he approaches the guitar, and what he likes about his day job as a barber.

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