News 1. The megaport delusion An article published yesterday in the Cape Breton Spectator is a must-read for anyone who thinks Sydney or Melford or Halifax for that matter can become a significant transshipment port operation. Because international shipping is such a gigantic industry, there is much research, reporting, and academic work looking at and […]
Anthony LeBlanc’s history of playing stadium hardball: Morning File, Monday, January 8, 2018
News 1. Poor parenting “Consider the case Mr. S and Ms. C, and their toddler, D,” writes Stephen Kimber: And the question of how much of what gets referred to as poor parenting is simply the result of being parents who are poor. And what that means — or should mean — for public policy. […]
Here come the public subsidies for a CFL team: Morning File, Thursday, December 28, 2017
News 1. Weather There’s weather today. 2. Sexual history and anonymity Yesterday, the courts published Judge Anne Derrick’s decision on whether testimony on Catherine Campbell’s sexual history would be allowed in the preliminary inquiry of the murder charge against Christopher Garnier. Derrick’s ruling is complicated, but the gist of it is she ruled that Campbell’s sexual history […]
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. […]
Chasing the stadium dream, part Nth: Morning File, Monday, November 27, 2017
News 1. Glen Assoun is moving to Halifax “Glen Assoun is moving to Halifax,” I reported Friday: In 1999, Assoun was convicted of the 1996 murder of his former girlfriend, Brenda Way. Assoun always maintained his innocence, but spent 16 years in prison for the murder. Assoun is the subject of the first three parts […]
A man in a lobster suit will make us rich, rich, rich: Morning File, Friday, November 24, 2017
News 1. Another SHIP Show at the Civic Centre “Okay, here’s what we’re going to do,” writes Mary Campbell: you’re going to give me your cell phones and I’m going to lock you in this room and let you read this article. You can take notes, but I’m going to take them away from you when […]
The most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered rodent you ever set eyes on: Morning File, Monday, November 20, 2017
Give us all your money! Or, you know, ten bucks a month. I’m no good at this “beg for subscriptions” thing, but I think I’m supposed to tell you that this is about the cost of a latte a week. Or about 33 cents a day — 32 cents on the long months; we’re really […]
Channelling Kimberly McAndrew: Morning File, Friday, November 17, 2017
“The parole board has again refused to release a Nova Scotia man jailed in British Columbia for sex crimes who is a suspect in cold case murders,” reports Chris Lambie for the Chronicle Herald: Andrew Paul Johnson, 58, is deemed a dangerous offender. […] In 1998, sources told The Chronicle Herald that Johnson was a […]