1. OPOR “This is a story about a potential half-billion-dollar health-care services contract, alleged cozy dinners between bidders and bureaucrats, an unusual legal letter and accusations the government’s tender process was unfair,” writes Chronicle Herald reporter Paul Schneidereit: The planned purchase of a new provincewide electronic health record (EHR) system — expected to cost in the hundreds […]
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 […]
Gold mining on the Eastern Shore stumbles
Morning File, Friday, September 21, 2018
News 1. Dufferin gold mine Two claims have been filed against the Maritime Dufferin Gold Corporation this week. Central Equipment, Inc. claims that it provided Maritime Dufferin Gold with unspecified goods and services and that Maritime Dufferin Gold defaulted on payment; Central has repossessed the goods, and is asking for a $37,766.33 court judgment that […]
The convention centre is running a $4 million operating deficit this year… and that’s just the beginning of the costs
Morning File, Monday, September 10, 2018
News 1. Mehta Stephen Kimber writes: Last winter, Acadia University said it was investigating [Rick] Mehta “for the manner in which you are expressing views that you are alleged to be advancing or supporting and, in some instances, time that you are spending on these issues in the classroom.” We need to parse that sentence. […]
It can happen here
Morning File, Friday, June 8, 2018
1. It can happen here President Donald Trump. Premier Doug Ford. Two years ago this would have been unthinkable. Now it’s reality. And these aren’t just some weird blips in history. There’s always been an undercurrent of nativism in North American history, and no manner of wishful thinking is going to make it go away. […]
Eleven more security failures… are we going to arrest Google?
Morning File, Tuesday, May 1, 2018
News 1. Eleven more security failures Yesterday, the provincial Department of Internal Services announced that it has discovered 11 more potential security failures related to the Freedom of Information website: Work is progressing on addressing the privacy breach of government’s Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy (FOIPOP) website. To date the province has: — […]
The second cruise ship berth may be Sydney’s very own Washmill underpass fiasco
Morning File, Thursday, April 5, 2018
1. Transit passes “The province and the city are cooperating on a plan that will put transit passes into the hands of 16,800 people with some of the lowest incomes in Halifax,” reports Examiner transportation columnist Erica Butler: The potential deal includes everyone within range of a bus stop receiving income assistance, including those currently […]
If it were up to me: Morning File, Thursday, March 1, 2018
Hi folks. Erica Butler here, filling in for Tim today. Here’s your Morningfile: News 1. P3 or not P3 “The provincial government is paying Deloitte half a million dollars to recommend whether the Province should use some type of a public-private-partnership (P3) to finance, build, and maintain two new outpatient centres,” reports Jennifer Henderson. But […]
Matt Whitman’s idiocy and free speech: Morning File, Tuesday, February 27, 2018
News 1. Windsor & Hantsport Railway “A Virginia businessman wants a piece of the action before the city can turn the old Windsor & Hantsport Railway into a trail,” writes Rick Grant: Robert T. Schmidt’s claim to all of the rail line is contested, and the province has gone to court to force him to maintain […]
Justice demands that we clear the records of people convicted on cannabis charges: Morning File, Thursday, February 1, 2018
News 1. Waiting for the train “Upgrading the Sydney to Truro rail line to the point where it can handle double-stacked containers won’t come cheap, according to a study just completed for the Port of Sydney Development Corporation, but the fix is needed if Sydney’s dreams of becoming a major container terminal are ever to be […]