As the mother of a young man with mental illness, Joanne knows how hard it can be to get much-needed mental health treatment for a family member, especially when that person doesn’t think they need it. Joanne (not her real name) lives in rural Nova Scotia, where there is limited access to crisis teams and […]
It’s OK to not obsess over every bit of COVID data
Morning File, Tuesday, December 21, 2021
News 1. Briefing today, as daily COVID cases hit nearly 500 The number of daily new COVID-19 infections in Nova Scotia has held steady at nearly 500 the last few days, Tim Bousquet reports. Because of the high number of infections, public health is backlogged, and can’t maintain accurate numbers of active and recovered cases. […]
Natural born quillers
Morning File, Monday, November 22, 2021
We are into the home stretch of the Halifax Examiner annual subscription drive. If you are already a subscriber, thank you. If you are not yet a subscriber, please subscribe. A few weeks ago, Jeremy Klaszus of the Calgary digital news site The Sprawl tweeted that he had been thinking a lot about a quote […]
Reading, from books to Coffee News
Morning File, Tuesday, October 20, 2020
News 1. Goldboro LNG plant: no guaranteed loans, no definite source of gas Yesterday, the Examiner published the first installment of Joan Baxter’s new two-part series on the proposed LNG plant near Port Hawkesbury. In the intro to the piece, called “The Goldboro Gamble,” Baxter writes: Not much about the project’s prospective financing and gas […]
Breaking down street barriers for people who are blind and partially sighted
Morning File, Monday, September 14, 2020
News 1. QAnon knows no borders Joan Baxter reports on QAnon, a global movement that promotes conspiracy theories, which has followers here in Nova Scotia. QAnon only started a few years ago with one post on the 4chan internet channel. Baxter took a look around to check out some of the post QAnon and its […]
Pandemic drinking is no joke
Morning File, Tuesday, July 14, 2020
News 1. Where’s the plan? Parents call on province to release back-to-school details A group of Nova Scotia parents have sent an open letter to Premier Stephen McNeil, calling on the province to make “children and their right to education” a priority in the province’s pandemic response plan, Yvette d’Entremont reports. While the other Atlantic […]
What will it take to restart film and TV production?
Morning File, Thursday, June 18, 2020
News 1. New class-action lawsuit proposed against RCMP and attorneys general of Canada, NS Families of those killed on April 18 and 19 in Nova Scotia are suing the RCMP, along with the attorneys general of Canada and Nova Scotia, for failings related to the mass murders. The suit is being brought by Patterson Law […]
Let’s talk about those damn bus doors again
Morning File, Tuesday, January 21, 2020
News 1. Santina Rao “The officers involved are still on the job and Halifax Regional Police Chief Dan Kinsella had little to say publicly on Monday about the violent arrest of a young Black mother at Walmart last week, citing an ongoing court case and a potential investigation,” reports Zane Woodford: Kinsella addressed reporters after […]
“Bad actors”: a Halifax landlord says a cryptocurrency firm is skipping out on its rent and might hide its assets where no court can find them
Morning File, Monday, December 16, 2019
1. McNeil government Writes Stephen Kimber: I had been hoping to say something positive about Stephen McNeil’s government — it is, after all, the season of speaking positively — but as soon as I began to put electronic keyboard to computer-screen praise, his government inevitably did one more something that was so bone-headed, so egregious, […]
Zombie ideas that won’t die
Morning File, Thursday, December 12, 2019
I’ve said this before, but when I first started writing for the Examiner, a friend asked how much Tim paid. After I’d replied, the person I was speaking with said, “Oh, so it takes [x] monthly subscriptions just to pay for you to do one Morning File.” I’d never thought of it in such bald […]
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