A federal bill to change the way environmental assessments of large projects are handled met with strong and mixed reaction at a Senate Committee hearing held in Halifax yesterday. Environmentalists like the fact assessments of new projects must include “climate change” as one factor. “The Bill is not perfect but it is a balanced and...
“Networking” by its very nature is exclusionary
Morning File, Monday, September 17, 2018
News 1. Acadia and Rick Mehta “The university {Acadia] had good reasons to fire Rick Mehta,” writes Stephen Kimber: But by conflating and commingling those reasons with specious arguments about its own reputation and seeming to accept the notion Mehta shouldn’t be allowed to share his wrong-headed rants on social media or challenge and provoke […]
New Waterford Boy: Morning File, Monday, July 10, 2017
News 1. Sears stiffs its employees while vulture capitalists profit Writes Stephen Kimber: “Just six dollars,” the woman behind the counter said cheerfully. “Gotta love health benefits.” “Actually,” replied the man, “I’m losing mine.” [..] The man is 64; he’s worked for Sears for more than 30 years. And he isn’t just losing his job and […]
Blind Luck: Nova Scotia may have just missed an off-shore oil spill
And government regulators kept the gravity of the incident secret.
“Only blind luck“ prevented what could have been significant damage to the marine environment and an oil well that Shell Canada was drilling in deep water 250 kilometers off the coast of Nova Scotia. That’s the conclusion of John Davis, an activist with the Clean Ocean Action Committee of fishermen and environmentalists opposed to drilling...