News 1. RCMP officers privately warned their loved ones that a killer was on the loose, but didn’t warn the broader public On the morning of April 19, 2020, many Nova Scotians were using Twitter and Facebook and trying to find out what was happening in and around Portapique. Meanwhile, as Tim Bousquet reports, the […]
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 […]
Where do you go when you gotta go?
Morning File, Tuesday, February 25, 2020
News 1. Supported living This item is written by Tim Bousquet. In 2013, the Nova Scotia government accepted a report titled “Choice, Equality and Good Lives in Inclusive Communities: A Roadmap for Transforming the Nova Scotia Services to Persons with Disabilities Program.” That 56-page report clearly identified the reliance on large institutions to house people […]
Inez Rudderham: The face of the healthcare crisis in Nova Scotia
Morning File, Friday, April 26, 2019
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 […]