I’m Suzanne Rent and I’m filling in for Tim this morning. You can follow me on Twitter @Suzanne_Rent News 1. Basic income Erica Butler chatted with Evelyn Forget who wrote Basic Income for Canadians. Forget will one of several speakers be at the Basic Income: The Evidence Speaks conference at the Halifax Central Library tomorrow. […]
We’re pretty sure it will soon be legal to smoke dope with that murderous imperialist Boer War dude outside Province House
Morning File, Monday, October 1, 2018
News 1. The 1% “Did you know Canadian taxpayers earning more than $250,000 annually — them’s the “one per cent” to me and thee — paid $6.8-billion less in federal taxes in 2016 than they did in 2015?” asks Stephen Kimber: But… uh… wait a minute. Didn’t Canada’s shiny new Liberal government create a whole […]
News from Florida, ticketed for being poor, and headless in Truro
Morning File, Wednesday, May 2, 2018
News 1. Raw sewage This was an odd and exasperating story I reported yesterday afternoon: An apparent act of sabotage on the MacKay Bridge resulted in a loss of communications between sewage pumping stations and the Dartmouth sewage plant; that in turn led to raw sewage being dumped into Halifax Harbour. When we asked a […]
Why Winston Churchill is surrounded by rats: Morning File, Thursday, August 4, 2016
News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. That crappy old office building on Argyle Street “The Halifax World Trade and Convention Centre is still for sale and the city has decided not to purchase it for now,” reports Sherri Borden Colley for the CBC. As I reported in April 2015: The WTCC […]