Clayton Developments has applied to “enable early tree removal and earthworks” at two of its special planning areas in Dartmouth — the Port Wallace and Eisner Cove lands. The provincial government’s housing task force identified the two properties as special planning areas in March, along with seven others in the Halifax area. That means they […]
Well-behaved women are rarely quoted properly
Morning File, Tuesday, April 5, 2022
News 1. Forced mediation with Northern Pulp Joan Baxter continues to follow the story of Northern Pulp and its parent company, Paper Excellence Canada, as they try to seek restitution for being forced to shut their Pictou County pulp mill. To recap: The mill did not provide a satisfactory plan to deal with effluent from […]
Exploiting pandemic measures for profit
Morning File, Tuesday, March 22, 2022
News 1. You mean MLAs aren’t supposed to be corporate shills? Last week, it came to Joan Baxter’s attention that there was a Friends of New Northern Pulp sign up at MLA Pat Dunn’s constituency office. Dunn is the MLA for Pictou Centre and minister of African Nova Scotian Affairs. Baxter wondered whether this was […]
Cruise ships are returning, but do we want them back?
Morning File, Thursday, March 10, 2022
News 1. Police board recommends 0.4% increase to HRP budget I did not think I would find myself laughing out loud at a story on the Board of Police Commissioners and the budget increase they proposed for the Halifax Regional Police. Of course, policing is not a laughing matter, and neither is the intractability of […]
The stickiness of harmful habits
Morning File, Tuesday, March 1, 2022
News 1. Portapique: 13 dead in 40 minutes, children left alone for hours This article includes graphic descriptions of intimate partner violence, multiple murders, and trauma to children. Tim Bousquet and Jennifer Henderson report on documents released by the Mass Casualty Commission, laying out just what happened in Portapique on the night of April 18, […]
Controversial Cape Breton land seller Frank Eckhardt to appear in court in April on weapons charges, pleads not guilty to extortion charge
Controversial Cape Breton land seller Frank Eckhardt wasn’t present for his arraignment in Port Hawkesbury Provincial Court yesterday on a charge of extortion and a slew of weapons charges laid by the RCMP in December last year. However, Eckhardt’s lawyer, Wayne MacMillan said he was not ready to respond to the 13 firearms, which were […]
Don’t teach crows to pick up cigarette butts
Morning File, Tuesday, February 8, 2022
News 1. Nova Scotia Power: New ways of making customers pay We’ve probably all heard by now of the proposed Nova Scotia Power rate hikes, but today Jennifer Henderson digs into a more insidious scheme to have ratepayers finance new infrastructure. She writes: What seems unforgiveable is a proposed change in how the company would […]
Breaking out of the algorithmic box
Morning File, Thursday, February 3, 2022
News 1. Is a “climate action tax” different from any other tax? Halifax has a climate action plan that Zane Woodford has previously described as “woefully underfunded.” Council is thinking of changing that, by earmarking a special tax of 0.023 cents on every $100 of taxable assessed residential property value for climate-related capital projects. But, […]
Growing Spring Garden
Morning File, Wednesday, October 20, 2021
News 1. Northern Pulp is demanding “more than $100 million” from the province Joan Baxter has the latest chapter in the Northern Pulp saga: “Northern Pulp — a Paper Excellence company that belongs ultimately to the billionaire corporate empire of the Widjaja family of Indonesia — is giving the Nova Scotia government two months notice […]
How not to handle homelessness
Morning File, Wednesday, June 23, 2021
News 1. Halifax police officer testifies he didn’t think Corey Rogers needed medical assistance “One of the officers who arrested Corey Rogers the night he died testified Tuesday that although Rogers was intoxicated and needed to be dragged into his cell, he didn’t think the 41-year-old needed medical attention,” writes Zane Woodford in his continuing […]
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