News 1. Chickens and other fowl “Hesitant to settle for chickens, Halifax councillors decided to include all egg-laying fowl in the rules on backyard birds in residential areas,” reports Zane Woodford for Star Halifax: Council voted on Tuesday to tell planning staff to start drafting bylaw amendments, with only Councillor Russell Walker voting no, citing […]
Three entirely untrained politicians making decisions on the fly is no basis for ensuring taxi safety
Morning File, Friday, May 24, 2019
News 1. Atlantic Gold sics cops on peaceful citizen “If yesterday’s information session was meant to convince the people of Sherbrooke — or for that matter any other Nova Scotians — that Atlantic Gold has their best interests at heart, it failed — spectacularly,” writes Joan Baxter. “And I mean spectacularly“: Not only were most […]
Can I have $15,000? Or maybe just $15 an hour?
Morning File, Wednesday, October 3, 2018
Hi, Erica Butler here filling in for Tim on this drizzly old Halifax day. News 1. On Treaty Day, Nova Scotia archbishop apologizes for Shubenacadie Residential School Monday was Treaty Day, and Nova Scotia’s catholic leaders marked it with an apology and request for forgiveness at a special mass in Halifax, reports Nic Meloney of […]
Anniversaries and remembrance: Morning File, Wednesday, December 6, 2017
News 1. Montreal Massacre There’s another anniversary today that seems to be overlooked in Halifax: the anniversary of the Montreal Massacre. Barbara Darby writes of learning of the massacre — her sister was then a student at the Université du Québec à Montréal— and of how it prompted her to identify as a feminist. She […]