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Don’t make waves in Canada’s ocean playground! Morning File, Thursday, October 12, 2017
News 1. Burnside Expressway The routing of the proposed Burnside Expressway was moved, reports Halifax Examiner transportation columnist Erica Butler: From 1991 up until sometime in 2012, the plan for the Burnside expressway was a shorter, more direct route than is currently proposed. Since it was conceived, the plan had been to build the road […]
The Summer of Hate: Morning File, Tuesday, June 20, 2017
News 1. Street checks “All Halifax Regional Police officers — from the chief through to new recruits — will receive training in 2018 on fair and impartial policing in order to improve street check practices that disproportionately target black people,” reports Sherri Borden Colley for the CBC: It’s one of several measures the police force is taking, Halifax Regional […]
What About The Men? Morning File, Saturday, June 10, 2017
1. Entrepreneurship Men, are you tired of being discriminated against by ladies? Do you worry that men just can’t get a job anymore now that men only make up 190 out of 200 airport drivers? Are you sick of being made to look bad by women talking about being raped by men? Why is no-one […]
“Salacious details”: the Halifax connection. Morning File, Thursday, January 12, 2017
News 1. “Salacious details”: the Halifax connection Don’t think about an elephant. Now don’t think about Donald Trump and golden showers. OK, well, now that you can’t stop thinking about either, you might as well know there’s a Halifax connection to the latter story. Reports the Guardian: In mid-November, the documents took another route into Washington […]
There should be a moratorium on police checks: Morning File, Wednesday, January 11, 2017
News 1. Street checks Halifax councillor Lindell Smith says he has been stopped by the police often: “I’ve had issues where police followed me, or police have pulled me over and asked questions that really had nothing to do with what I was doing,” he said. “Of course your mind goes to, is it racism? […]
The fraught relationship between PTSD and violence: Morning File, Monday, January 9, 2017
News 1. PTSD and domestic violence “There are a lot of questions that don’t get asked about violence against women,” Lucille Harper, the executive director of the Antigonish Women’s Resource Centre, tells the CBC, which had asked Harper about the apparent murder of Shanna Desmond, Aaliyah Desmond, and Brenda Desmond by Lionel Desmond: What we saw here clearly […]