News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Stadium envy Former Moncton CAO Jacques Dubé has been hired for the same position in Halifax. In December, CAO Richard Butts abruptly resigned and took a job as president of Clayton Developments, the largest development firm in the area. Then-city solicitor John Traves has been operating […]

News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Blue Mountain – Birch Cove Lakes wilderness Yesterday, Halifax council took the most sensible action possible with regards to the Blue Mountain – Birch Cove Lakes wilderness park I discussed yesterday. Council voted to push the entire issue back to its September 6 […]

News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Blue Mountain – Birch Cove Lakes wilderness At today’s city council meeting, councillor Reg Rankin will introduce the following motion: That Halifax Regional Council direct staff to: 1. Initiate the public consultation and hearing process for an amendment to the Regional Municipal Planning […]

News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. CBC’s “explainer” on North Preston Upset with a CBC “explainer” about the community of North Preston, eight protestors descended upon CBC’s Halifax offices Friday and demanded a retraction. I was there, and wrote this article about it. Besides the clear misrepresentation of North […]

Conversation with Walter Borden Black Lives Matter’s intervention into the Toronto Pride parade raised issues of exclusion of Black people from the mainstream Pride movement. Much of the reporting around the action treated Blackness and gayness as separate identities, and the queer Black women activists were treated as though they were intruders into a parade […]

News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Rescue It’s a warm summer, which always means one thing: rescues. Amanda Slaunwhite was caught in an undertow at Dominion Beach near Sydney, but was saved by firefighters and a cop. Two people tossed out of their canoe in the Northumberland Strait were […]

News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Blue Mountain – Birch Cove Lakes wilderness park It’s hard to understand what councillor Reg Rankin is up to. You’ll recall that Justice Heather Robertson was hired as a “facilitator” for the city and four development companies that own property within the boundaries of […]

News News Before we start: Discount kitties! 1. Chronicle Herald hires scab writer who believes Lucifer is in our phones Thanks to Chris Parsons for reporting on this on Twitter. Read his blog here. Some people might publish an untrue and inflammatory story about refugee children, get shamed nationally, and resolve to put whatever processes […]

News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Discrimination in the fire department “Two former Halifax firefighters say they were targeted after they complained about harassment and inappropriate behaviour on the job,” reports Stephanie vanKampen for the CBC: Paul Service served as a volunteer firefighter for five years in Harrietsfield. But shortly after he began […]

News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Yarmouth ferry “After weeks of saying it would not do so, Bay Ferries released the first passenger numbers for the new Yarmouth-Maine ferry Monday,” reports Remo Zaccagna for Local Xpress: According to the initial numbers, service to Portland, which launched on June 15, […]