新闻1。Halifax council Matters considered by Halifax council yesterday: sidewalk cafes, changes to garbage policies, new library administrator, bike lane on University Avenue. I’ll have a full report published later today. 2. Pope Coptic Pope Tawadros II is in town. 3. Medical marijuana Continuing the War Against People Harming No One, cops invaded the home of medical […]
Archives for September 2014
Juking the stats: Morning File, Tuesday, September 23, 2014
新闻1。Guilty plea A boy (now adult) has pleaded guilty to a child porn charge in relation to the case of the girl we can’t name (but everyone knows) who committed suicide after an image was spread around her school. 2. Too many cops? [Click here for the video I can’t seem to embed.] […]
Sidewalk cafes, landfill issues, and Earth Hour: Halifax council preview, September 23, 2014 meeting
The big issues tomorrow: Sidewalk cafes Staff has written a report recommending the implementation of a sidewalk cafe bylaw and an accompanying administrative order outlining fees. In the past, sidewalk cafes were sloppily regulated, caught between a hazy “policy” and three bylaws regulating other things, but not sidewalk cafes directly. For the most part, staff’s...
Taxing our eyes: Morning File, Monday, September 22, 2014
新闻1。March to raise awareness about climate change Four hundred people marched in Halifax, with “dozens” in other Maritime cities. These were local rallies timed to coincide with the gigantic march in New York City. Some 400,000 people showed up for that march, reports the Huffington Post. There is nothing more important than addressing climate […]
Pot protesters light up for access to legal weed
by Hilary Beaumont With a “justice 4 patients” sign hanging from his neck and his Jesus-like hair waving in the breeze, Chris Enns addressed police through a megaphone outside their Gottingen Street station: “You’re going into patients houses where they’re storing their medicine safely, away from children…and yet you come pounding through our front doors,...
Musical buildings: Morning File, Saturday, September 20, 2014
新闻1。Musical buildings Chronicle Herald reporter Michael Gorman today explores the likely demolition of the historic Dennis building and the possible future of the site. I have no idea if the building is, as minister Labi Kousoulis says, “absolutely useless,” or, as Heritage Trust president Linda Forbes says, salvageable, but we sure are tearing […]
It’s More Than Buses: a great starting point
The It’s More Than Buses group has released its proposal for revamping Halifax bus routes and scheduling. At the heart of the proposal are high-frequency routes that connect at transfer points. The buses would run along these routes so often—at least every 15 minutes, with some at 10 minutes—that it reduces the need for time-consuming...
Nova Scotia’s death spiral: Morning File, Friday, September 19, 2014
新闻1。彼得·肯普顿(Peter Kempton is the 58-year-old auto mechanic who died last year in an explosion at Your Mechanic Auto Corner in Westphal. The incident never seemed fully explained, and there are two new reports that say it is still being actively investigated. CBC reports that before the incident, Your Mechanic Auto Corner was the subject of […]
Economic forecasting theory: Morning File, Thursday, September 18, 2014
新闻1。Fishing industry is deadly About half of the workplace fatalities in Nova Scotia happen in the fishing industry. 2. City fuel use Auditor general Larry Munroe issued a report yesterday, A Performance Review of HRM’s Equipment Fuel Program, which garnered the predicted (by me) media response. I put the issue in context of the […]
Why “Corporate Social Responsibility” Is a Crock
By Larry Haiven Back when I was in the MBA program at the University of Alberta in 1984, a wily professor put the cat among the pigeons. He asked us students to consider whether corporations should forget about charity and good works and simply…pay their taxes. Businesses, he argued, were good at making money, not […]