哪个公司将抓住机会与毁灭哈利法克斯历史的遗嘱相关联？我们很快就会发现：曾经是莫尔斯（Morse）的茶标志的旗帜上宣布，该建筑物的一个幸运租户可以将其公司名称放在历史悠久的地点上。读者会记得[…]
2014年7月的档案
Rotting away: Morning File, Monday, July 14, 2014
新闻1. MV Miner该省正在准备执行一项耗资1200万美元的计划，以从Scatarie Island中删除MV矿工。这艘退役的货船从其拖曳线上摔断了，并于2011年坠入岛屿，从那以后一直陷入困境。据说我们需要“清理”这艘船，因为Scatarie是一个受保护的荒野地区，[…]
钻，婴儿，钻头：早晨文件，2014年7月12日，星期六
News 1. Deep Panuke The Chronicle Herald’s Roger Taylor reports that, thanks to the crappy winter in New England, Encana made a lot of money from selling natural gas from its Deep Panuke wells on the Boston spot market. With warm weather here, prices are back to normal, but the company thinks it can repeat […]
一天的鲸鱼：早晨文件，2014年7月11日，星期五
News 1. Province asks RCMP to investigate the CRDA See Views, below. But also, news reports in the Chronicle Herald and CBC. 2. Who owns the dead whale? There was a bit of a bureaucratic battle over which level of government was responsible for removing a whale carcass washed up on the Canso Causeway. The province […]
坎伯兰地区发展局：“经济发展”的另一章
Torches & pitchforks: Morning File, Thursday, July 10, 2014
新闻1.喷泉向NSCAD捐赠了300万美元，Fountain家族已向该学院捐款300万美元，资金向Granville购物中心校园提供给。玛格丽特·富斯坦（Margaret Fountain）坐在学院董事会成员，她的丈夫戴维·富斯坦（David Fountain）近年来一直在做出一系列非常大的慈善捐款。从前 […]
第四庄园：哈利法克斯的伟大激进报纸
From 1969 to 1977, there existed in Halifax a radical newspaper called The Fourth Estate. Last night, Fourth Estate alumni held a reunion at the Wooden Monkey in Dartmouth. I was honoured to be invited as a guest. As explained by various speakers at the reunion, The Fourth Estate arrived on the scene when Halifax...
Animal kingdom edition: Morning File, Wednesday, July 9, 2014
News 1. Something is seriously wrong on the east coast There’s been a 10-20 percent increase in the number of great white sharks in Nova Scotia waters, reports the CBC. There’s not yet enough evidence to explain the increase, but it is speculated to be a result of warming sea waters. That would correlate with the recent news […]
Today, I became a Canadian citizen
This morning I joined 47 other immigrants in a ceremony in a basement room in the Immigration office on Brunswick Street, across from the town clock. Citizenship Judge Ann Janega said some short remarks, we collectively pledged allegiance to the queen, and then each of us were called up individually to receive our citizenship certificate. I was […]
Not bloody likely: Morning File, Tuesday, July 8, 2014
新闻1.彩色儿童定居点的住所向前移动，昨天在法庭上有一场激动人心的一天，因为亚瑟·勒布朗大法官签署了该省与本国前居民之间的2900万美元和解。哈里特·约翰逊（Harriet Johnson）对法庭说：“我在八岁半时被强奸。”“同一个人把我放在[…]的街道上