News 1. IMP “The city has dropped its Integrated Mobility Plan (IMP), a hefty 193-page document designed to help Halifax achieve its Regional Plan target of reducing the share of trips we all make in private vehicles,” reports Erica Butler: In 2006, council set a goal to reduce vehicle trips down to 70 per cent […]
Bulding A Better Nova Scotia Through Poetry: Examineradio, episode #109
Rebecca Thomas, Halifax’s poet laureate, woke City Council with an electrifying poem she read in Chambers titled “Not Perfect.” The subsequent meeting saw a resolution passed to revisit the idea of renaming Cornwallis Street and removing the Cornwallis statue in, uh, Cornwallis Park. Also, the Liberal government released a meaningless budget designed to buld on a stronger […]
The power of poetry: Morning File, Wednesday, April 26, 2017
News 1. Cornwallis Two weeks ago, Halifax poet laureate Rebecca Thomas read her poem “Not Perfect” before city council: The reading had two effects. The first was that councillor Shawn Cleary was moved to ask that Halifax council revisit the issue of renaming Cornwallis Street and removing the statue of Cornwallis in the south end. (Councillor […]
David Hendsbee, Shadow Chaser: Morning File, Wednesday, March 22, 2017
News 1. Liberals double-down on IBM deal they criticized four years ago as a “huge clusterfuck” Back in 2012, I reported on the then-NDP government’s decision to outsource the province’s SAP operations to IBM: By handing 73 union jobs to the notoriously anti-union IBM, Nova Scotia’s NDP has turned its back on its core support in […]
There is a crack in everything, including Antarctica: Morning File, Wednesday, February 8, 2017
News 1. School board to close Dartmouth and Bedford classrooms for refugees and immigrants learning English “Nearly 200 adult immigrant students are taking a democratic action that many people born in this country never have,” reports Jennifer Henderson for the Halifax Examiner: They’ve have signed petitions addressed to local Liberal Members of Parliament, Nova Scotia Immigration […]
Perplexed by Wanda’s strange disappearance: Morning File, Wednesday, January 25, 2017
News 1. Teachers “Nova Scotia’s 9,300 public school teachers got their first look at the latest contract offer from the province Tuesday with union leaders telling them it was ‘the best deal that was available,’” reports Michael Gorman for the CBC: The four-year deal is worth an extra $60 million, but it was given a lukewarm reception, at […]
There should be a moratorium on police checks: Morning File, Wednesday, January 11, 2017
News 1. Street checks Halifax councillor Lindell Smith says he has been stopped by the police often: “I’ve had issues where police followed me, or police have pulled me over and asked questions that really had nothing to do with what I was doing,” he said. “Of course your mind goes to, is it racism? […]
Examineradio jumps the shark: Examineradio, episode #87
This week is a special Halifax Examiner Subscription Drive episode. We look back on some of the highlights of nearly two years’ worth of this podcast and radio show, including interviews with former MPs Megan Leslie and Peter Stoffer, Toronto Star journalist Alex Boutilier and lawyer-turned-author Philip Slayton. Oh, and Mayor Mike Savage. Plus, Tim […]
Welcome To Post-Racial Halifax: Morning File, Saturday, October 22, 2016
1. A special Examiner report on racism being over Lindell Smith was elected to city council for District 8 in a historic landslide win on October 15. “This is so great!” enthused Blanche White. “Halifax really showed that we’re colour blind! Black, white, green, purple, polka dotted, whatever, it doesn’t matter to me!” The Halifax […]
Income inequality is at a four-decade high in Nova Scotia: Examineradio, episode #84
Jordan Brennan is an economist with Unifor and a Visiting Research Fellow at Harvard University. In a recent report, he trashes the Nova Scotia Liberal government’s neoliberal austerity agenda. He argues that cutting government spending when the private sector is also belt-tightening is exactly the opposite of responsible economic stewardship. Also, we speak with four […]