This is a story about the toxic legacy from historic gold mines in Nova Scotia, which its citizens will be paying many millions of dollars to try to clean up, and how the contamination at just one of these sites — Montague Mines in HRM — is still affecting us today. This, the second in...
40 years ago, Jolly Tar, a symbol of genocidal imperialism, was set aside and nobody raised a fuss
Morning File, Thursday, April 25, 2019
News 1. Electric vehicles “This May, the federal government will start issuing a rebate up to $5,000 to people buying a new electric car. The program will cost Transport Canada $300 million, or roughly enough to provide 60,000 people with full $5,000 rebates on new EV (electric vehicle) purchases,” reports Erica Butler. Butler goes on […]
If you drink on the public dime, you should drink local: Morning File, Tuesday, September 20, 2016
News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Purcells Cove Backlands Yesterday, I took a look at city staff’s recommendation that city council approve the purchase of a parcel in the Purcells Cove Backlands from the Shaw Group. The proposed sale price is secret because we wouldn’t want the public to know […]