News 1. Mehta Stephen Kimber writes: Last winter, Acadia University said it was investigating [Rick] Mehta “for the manner in which you are expressing views that you are alleged to be advancing or supporting and, in some instances, time that you are spending on these issues in the classroom.” We need to parse that sentence. […]
Racist graffiti at St. Catherine’s Elementary School
On Friday, racist graffiti was discovered defacing St. Catherine’s Elementary School in Halifax’s West End. Tina Roberts-Jeffers, who has two children attending the school in the fall, saw the graffiti when she met another mother for a playdate in the school’s playground. “When I first saw it I just thought, why? Why here? Why would […]
The convention centre is costing us at least $294 million; what else could that have bought? Morning File, Wednesday, March 7, 2018
News 1. South Park Street bike lane “Halifax is going to build its longest protected bike lane sometime in the next year on South Park Street,” reports Erica Butler: The 1.2 kilometre lane will run from Sackville Street all the way to Inglis Street in the south end, near Saint Mary’s University. With council’s approval […]
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss: Morning File, Wednesday, May 31, 2017
News 1. Liberal Majority It was a nail-biter of an election. When I went to bed at half past midnight, the CBC was projecting a Liberal victory two seats short of a majority, but an hour later that had flipped to a two-seat Liberal majority. Points to note: • Voter turnout was 53.55 per cent, down […]
Great Market Expectations: Morning File, Saturday, October 24, 2015
News Views News Note: I’m writing this in Saskatoon in a hotel, and since Acadia repossessed my faculty laptop (ah, what the hell, might as well throw shade on every possible university in this edition) I have to write on the computer in the lobby and it has Windows 8: Hellscape and also shuts off […]