News 1. Needlessly institutionalized People have been locked into a psychiatric ward at the Nova Scotia Hospital for “no medical or legal reason,” says lawyer Vince Calderhead. Jennifer Henderson reports: The complainants in this four-year-old human rights complaint are two intellectually disabled adults (a third complainant died) who spent most of their adult lives locked […]
One Great City! Morning File, Monday, January 22, 2018
1. Willow Tree “Can we trust the Armoyans to act in the public interest?” asks Stephen Kimber: No. That’s not their job. But it is councillors’ job. Their eagerness last week to say yes to the Armoyan scheme to trade approval of a 25-storey tower for a few affordable housing baubles tells you more than […]
Five Saturday morning updates: Lafarge, Examineradio, wilderness park purchase, Elmwood, and Mr. Big
I’m not sure if El Jones is writing today or not. Honestly, I don’t know how she does all she does and pumps out a weekly column — it’s perfectly understandable that she needs to take a week off every now and then. But yesterday’s Morning File was on the short side, and a few […]
Matt Whitman does something stupid: Morning File, Friday, October 27, 2017
News 1. Sexual assaults Stats Canada yesterday released an analysis of police-reported sexual assaults in Canada. A synopsis of those findings leads the report: Over a six-year period between 2009 and 2014, police reported 117,238 sexual assaults in Canada where sexual assault was the most serious violation in the incident. Almost all (98%) police-reported sexual […]
Halifax financial advisor John LeBlanc wants Google to turn over the names of people who complained about him: Morning File, Friday, July 14, 2017
News 1. Chronicle Herald strike “The Nova Scotia government has called for an inquiry into the 18-month-old labour dispute between the Chronicle Herald, Canada’s largest independently owned daily newspaper, and the union that represents the paper’s editorial staff,” reports the Canadian Press: Ingrid Bulmer, president of the Halifax Typographical Union, said the government’s move was in response to the union’s […]