Hi, I’m Erica Butler, your Examiner transportation columnist, filling in for Tim today and tomorrow. News 1. Film industry Writes Stephen Kimber: IATSE Local 849, the union that represents most film technicians in the province, has statistics showing its members worked 40,687 days in 2014, earning $11,120,665 in gross pay and pensions. In 2017, those […]
Yarmouth ferry operator Bay Ferries wants to stop going to Portland and instead go to Bar Harbor
Morning File, Tuesday, June 5, 2018
News 1. Stop the Cogswell misfire! Today, writes Examiner transportation columnist Erica Butler: …city councillors will convene to decide on what will take the place of the Cogswell Interchange. They will have spent the weekend with a staff report featuring this drawing of a 60 per cent complete design of the new street network, including […]
“No Reason to Treat Us Like Garbage”: Life and Death in Canadian prisons
1. The Weekenders Recently, news stories circulated about incarcerated women in Arizona being denied access to menstrual products. When we hear stories about prison conditions in the United States, people in Canada often believe that these injustices do not happen in our prisons and jails. This is a mistake. I have been hearing for a […]