News 1. Street checks “On Friday, Justice Minister Mark Furey announced that street checks would be permanently banned following a legal opinion written by former Nova Scotia Chief Justice Michael MacDonald and researcher Jennifer Taylor that concluded street checks are illegal,” writes El Jones: We should, of course, not have needed this opinion to ban […]
“Vexatious litigant” Ade Olumide comes to Nova Scotia
Morning File, Wednesday, November 21, 2018
November subscription drive I’m running behind so I’m just going to repeat what I wrote yesterday: Everyone should come to our subscription party Sunday. Here’s our Facebook event for the, er, event: Come celebrate with us! Investigative journalist Linden MacIntyre joins us as guest speaker. He’ll be announced by former CBC radio host/ spice merchant Costas […]
The cigarette butt recycling conspiracy to make us smoke more: Morning File, Wednesday, November 1, 2017
News 1. Frank Palermo Examiner transportation columnist Erica Butler interviews Frank Palermo, a professor of planning, director of the Cities and Environment Unit at Dalhousie, and founding board member of the Planning and Design Centre (PDC), the originators of Switch: Open Street Sundays. Click here to read “Frank Palermo on ‘five years of doing an experiment’ […]