News 1. The Halifax Examiner and Cape Breton Spectator’s exposé on the security failure Yesterday, the Halifax Examiner and Cape Breton Spectator went to court to ask Justice Gregory Lenehan to unseal a search warrant Halifax police executed on the house of a 19-year-old Halifax man suspected of illegally downloading information from the FOIPOP website. […]
News from Florida, ticketed for being poor, and headless in Truro
Morning File, Wednesday, May 2, 2018
News 1. Raw sewage This was an odd and exasperating story I reported yesterday afternoon: An apparent act of sabotage on the MacKay Bridge resulted in a loss of communications between sewage pumping stations and the Dartmouth sewage plant; that in turn led to raw sewage being dumped into Halifax Harbour. When we asked a […]
Nova Scotian taxpayers funded technology being used by US tech startup: Morning File, Wednesday, February 22, 2017
News 1. Teachers The Liberal government passed the third and final reading of Bill 75 yesterday afternoon. All 33 Liberal MLAs voted for the bill, and all 17 opposition MLAs voted against. Once proclaimed (no doubt this morning), a new contract will be imposed on the province’s teachers. As Michael Gorman reports for the CBC: […]
Why you shouldn’t use the Halifax airport’s wifi: Morning File, Thursday, November 17, 2016
November Subscription Drive Yesterday’s article by Chris Lambie on the filling in of Halifax Harbour (linked to below) is an example of what the Halifax Examiner does best, I think. I’ve long been aware that fill has been deposited at the Fairview Cove shipping terminal, but wasn’t really conscious of the extent of the operation until […]