News 1. Joan Baxter and Jennifer Henderson on Northern Pulp This evening at 7pm, Joan Baxter will be interviewed by Jennifer Henderson on stage at the St. Margaret’s Centre in Tantallon. From the Facebook event page: Incisive, no nonsense, take no prisoners. Joan Baxter’s brilliant exposé “The Mill – Fifty Years of Pulp and Protest” […]
Anthony Leblanc rolls into to town and all the public consultation about Shannon Park is thrown out the window
Morning File, Monday, April 1, 2019
News 1. Street checks Saturday, young people in Halifax’s Black community led a conversation at the North Library about Scot Wortley’s report on street checks and the effects of street checks on them. After the conversation, there was a march from the library to the police station (and then on to Province House) demanding an […]
Halifax has too many fireworks displays: Morning File, Monday, October 23, 2017
News 1. An expert explains why there’s no hotel at the Nova Centre Why hasn’t an operator been named for the hotel being constructed above Halifax’s new convention centre? That’s the question I asked last week of Jan deRoos, a professor of Hotel Finance and Real Estate at the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University. A […]
One smart cat: Morning File, Thursday, December 8, 2016
News 1. The S-word No, not soccer, but we’ll start with that. Reports Chris Cochrane for Local Xpress: The top official with a new Canadian pro soccer league, planned for a 2018 start in several major Canadian cities, was in Halifax Wednesday for talks with those behind a proposed local franchise. Halifax-based sports promotion firm Sports & […]