News 1. Burnside Connector I’ve been opposed to the Burnside–Sackville Connector from the start. As I wrote in April: Yes, traffic in Burnside is horrible. The place was badly designed from the get-go, and none of the repeated expansions of the business park came with sensible improvements in transportation systems. But adding more highways into the […]
A new way to measure sprawl shines light on inequities and inefficiencies
People in Glen Arbour have four times as much road per capita than their Fairview counterparts
Some of HRM’s richest neighbourhoods are being subsidized by some of our poorest ones, according to a new analysis by urban planners Tristan Cleveland and Paul Dec which looks at census data, road costs, and road length per capita. The analysis brings to light systemic inequities, and also shows that on average, Halifax has been...
There’s a train a comin’; Can’t you hear her blowin’? Morning File, Tuesday, July 18, 2017
News 1. White supremacist “On Saturday, Paul Fromm, an avowed white supremacist, attended and spoke at a public rally in Toronto in support of the so-called Halifax Five,” reports Russell Gragg for the Halifax Examiner: The Halifax Five are the Canadian soldiers who disrupted an Indigenous ceremony in Halifax’s Cornwallis Park on Canada Day. […] Fromm […]
Ivany Schmivany: Morning File, Friday, February 17, 2017
News 1. Teachers Yesterday, dozens of people addressed the legislature’s Law Amendments committee. Jennifer Henderson reported from the scene for the Halifax Examiner. Today, teachers and other members of the Nova Scotia Teachers Union are on strike. Schools are closed, and thousands of people are expected to protest outside Province House. The city has cleared […]
Morning File, Tuesday, January 10, 2017
News, views, and snowshoes from Mainland Nova Scotia's greatest municipality
Tim is goofing off this morning. Today’s guest writer is Katie Toth. News 1. Hospital accused of turning away Lionel Desmond insists it’s never denied care According to new reporting by Melanie Patten for CBC News, one doctor at St. Martha’s Hospital in Antigonish says it’s never denied care in its emergency rooms. Lionel Desmond’s family […]
A Hill To Die On: Morning File, Thursday, December 22, 2016
Hello Examiner readers: Katie Toth here, curator and cultivator of the finest locally-sourced, organic, free-range news. Tim is sleeping, I’m writing Morning File, and Christmas is three days away! That means eggnog is in my coffee and I have wool socks on. News 1. Nova Scotia now responsible for refugee support Syrian refugees are coming up on the […]
The Port of Sydney grift continues: Morning File, Tuesday, December 13, 2016
News 1. Prison violence Michael Tutton reports for the Canadian Press: It’s 26 seconds of brutality — and lays bare the emerging reality of a growing number of beatings in Canada’s jails. Inmate Dwayne Wright, watching television with his feet up, is suddenly sucker-punched from behind by another inmate. A video of the attack shows […]
The Ministry of Thought: Morning File, Thursday, September 15, 2016
News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Engage, or else Halifax council’s Community Planning & Economic Development Committee meets this morning. I have in the past given this committee a bit of grief, but I take it all back; to its great credit, the committee demanded some accounting from the provincial […]