News 1. Climate change action This week people around the world are stepping up activism around the climate emergency during the UN climate action summit in New York. A list of local events can be found here. 2. What to do about Justin? Writes Stephen Kimber: Last week’s Blackface/Brownface controversy raises the complicated question of […]
Harvard Street residents go to court over bikeway plan
Morning File, Friday, August 10, 2018
News 1. Class action lawsuit filed against Archdiocese Last week, Halifax lawyer John McKiggan and the Toronto law firm of Koskie Minsky announced they were filing a class action lawsuit against the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Halifax–Yarmouth on behalf of children they allege were sexually abused by priests from 1960 to the present. After the lawyers issued […]
Bill 30, sex abuse, and separation of church and state: Morning File, Wednesday, October 25, 2017
News 1. Bill 30, sex abuse, and separation of church and state “Bill No. 30 – Archdiocese of Halifax-Yarmouth Act” was considered by the usually non-controversial Private & Local Bills committee of the legislature yesterday. But, “[t]he committee voted to hold the bill at this stage of the lawmaking process following a presentation by lawyer John […]