On the one hand, I’m not sure what to make of Tim Houston’s full-frontal face plant last week. “So, today I will put my personal pride aside,” our premier declared Thursday as he humble-pied his way through a humiliating and complete run back of his government’s month-old, ink-barely-dry plan to hike taxes on non-resident property […]
Housing Trust of Nova Scotia changing tack, abandoning development plan and buying hundreds of apartments
The Housing Trust of Nova Scotia is changing up its strategy, moving to sell its property on Maitland Street and buy hundreds of existing affordable rental units. The trust, a nonprofit founded by developer and consultant Ross Cantwell in 2009, used to own two nearby properties between Gottingen Street and Maitland Street, with plans for […]
Banned and challenged: it’s not wokeness gone wild that’s behind books being removed from libraries
Morning File, Wednesday, April 27, 2022
News 1. Sam Austin blames volunteers for crisis shelter assault Last Saturday morning, members of the anonymous volunteer group Mutual Aid Halifax erected a crisis shelter in Starr Park in Dartmouth. On Monday, Halifax Regional Police say, someone living in the shelter assaulted a local resident who had knocked on the shelter. In a post […]
New Involuntary Psychiatric Treatment Act passes despite concerns
Advocates say the bar for involuntary hospitalizations should be high, while psychiatrists worry fewer people will receive necessary treatment.
As the mother of a young man with mental illness, Joanne knows how hard it can be to get much-needed mental health treatment for a family member, especially when that person doesn’t think they need it. Joanne (not her real name) lives in rural Nova Scotia, where there is limited access to crisis teams and […]
Public paying the price to clean up old gold mines
Anaconda Mining says the province indemnified it from any liabilities associated with the toxic historic tailings in Goldboro, and plans to mine around them, while Nova Scotians pay to clean them up.
The gold rush in Upper Seal Harbour near Goldboro began with the discovery of gold in 1892 by a fellow named Howard Richardson. For the next 65 years, gold miners dug rock out of the earth in what was known as the “Richardson Belt” on the banks of Gold Brook Lake in Guysborough County. […]
Exploiting pandemic measures for profit
Morning File, Tuesday, March 22, 2022
News 1. You mean MLAs aren’t supposed to be corporate shills? Last week, it came to Joan Baxter’s attention that there was a Friends of New Northern Pulp sign up at MLA Pat Dunn’s constituency office. Dunn is the MLA for Pictou Centre and minister of African Nova Scotian Affairs. Baxter wondered whether this was […]
Northern Pulp has a new set of “friends”
But the “friends” look familiar, and the “new” Northern Pulp sure looks a lot like the same old Northern Pulp.
This is how the “Friends of a New Northern Pulp” describe themselves on their website: We are Nova Scotians who care deeply about our province, our forests, and our communities. We are the 36,000 Nova Scotians who own small and large woodlots. So, just one line in and the BS begins. The wording of the […]
Dalhousie University’s decision to source “sustainable biomass” from J.D. Irving and Wagner a “piss-off”
News that Emera’s Brooklyn biomass plant is out of commission is making waves in Nova Scotia, while Dal’s biomass facility in Truro garners little publicity.
In May 2021, Dalhousie University issued a tender for “sustainable biomass” to feed the bioenergy plant on its agricultural campus in Truro. At the end of July 2021, the university quietly awarded the contract — worth $1,318,187.50 — to J.D. Irving and Wagner Forest NS. This marked a departure for Dalhousie’s biomass plant, which for […]
Richard Preston: “The founder of the Black Nova Scotian community”
Preston, who started the African Chapel, the African United Baptist Association of Nova Scotia, and the African Abolition Society, is one of the public's suggestions for names to replace Cornwallis Street.
One name the public suggested for the renaming of Cornwallis Street in Halifax is Richard Preston, who was the founder and first reverend of the newly named New Horizons Baptist Church, located on Cornwallis Street. Originally called the African Chapel — and later the Cornwallis Street Baptist Church — the church was founded on April […]
“Yacobo O’Hanley” and some other old boys have hurt fee-fees about protecting Tatamagouche’s water supply
That didn’t take long. On Tuesday, Nova Scotia Environment and Climate Change granted protected status to the French River watershed that provides the village of Tatamagouche with its water, which means that henceforth mineral exploration and mining will be prohibited in the watershed. The Halifax Examiner covered the decision to protect the watershed almost immediately, and […]
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