News 1. City keeps policing report secret The city is keeping a $200,000 consultants’ report into police services private. Councillor Lorelei Nicoll requested the report in 2018 as a way to identify service gaps and ways to save money. The report has been completed, but you can’t read it. Zane Woodford writes about the report’s […]
The string of suspicious fires in the south end continues
Morning File, Thursday, January 2, 2020
Fires Yesterday, Halifax police issued the following press release: At 4:23 p.m., Halifax Regional Police and HRM Fire & Emergency responded to a structure fire inside an apartment building in the 5500 block of Victoria Road Halifax. Multiple callers reported seeing smoke within the building. HRM Fire attended and quickly extinguished the fire. Tenants did […]
The cruise ship industry disses the Yarmouth ferry
Morning File, Monday, August 19, 2019
News 1. Health care photo ops “So last week, 10 out of 37 hospital emergency departments in Nova Scotia were closed for at least some part of the week,” writes Stephen Kimber: While our healthcare crises multiply, our leaders stage photo opportunities that resemble trying to slap Band-Aids on the backsides of rampaging elephants. Whatever […]
In the past 16 months, there have been 5 fires in the South End within 100 metres of each other
Morning File, Tuesday, July 23, 2019
News 1. The Glen Assoun case: a primer I’ve been doing a lot of reporting on the wrongful conviction of Glen Assoun, and there’s more coming. So this is a good time to pause and provide an overview, a primer, if you will, so people not familiar with the case can get up to speed. Glen […]