校园新闻观点发现政府在哈尔bour Footnotes News 1. Examineradio, episode #78 John Wesley Chisholm is a successful television producer and Juno Award-winning musician. Now he’s throwing his hat into the ring as the Progressive Conservative candidate for Halifax Chebucto in the next provincial election. Find out what Front Line Fever means and […]
Archives for September 2016
Debatable Crimes: Morning File, Saturday, September 10, 2016
WHOOO HOOOO!! WHOOOOOOO!!! RANDOM YELL! Sorry, South End readers. Just acclimating you to the return of the students. 1. I’m that teacher It’s the beginning of another school year, which means handwringing about “coddled” students, the audacity of trigger warnings, and the general ways Youtube videos and social media are ruining university education. I guess I’m that teacher […]
Matt Whitman’s pandas: Examineradio, episode #78
John Wesley Chisholm is a successful television producer and Juno Award-winning musician. Now he’s throwing his hat into the ring as the Progressive Conservative candidate for Halifax Chebucto in the next provincial election. Find out what Front Line Fever means and why he thinks it wouldn’t take many Tims to make a dozen. Also, city council […]
Habitat for Humanity, which builds homes, is “partnering” with Steele Auto Group, which just bulldozed a neighbourhood
A reader forwarded this email to me this morning: From: Habitat for Humanity Nova Scotia [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2016 11:11 AM To: [redacted] Subject: We need 20 minutes of your time! A “partnership” with the Steele Auto Group is ill-advised, to put it mildly. Steele just bulldozed three city blocks of houses containing about 100 units of […]
维多利亚P3替代一般非常much on the agenda
After the disastrous P3 school fiasco, why would the province build a hospital through a public-private partnership?
Seven companies with offices across Canada and a few global companies with offices around the world have submitted their proposals to manage the ambitious, multi-million dollar project to replace the crumbling Victoria General Hospital. Cannon Design is headquartered in the United States. HOK is an international firm that has built the Rogers Arena in Edmonton and...
The airport wants people working there to get paid shit: Morning File, Friday, September 9, 2016
校园新闻观点发现政府在哈尔bour Footnotes News 1. Victoria General Jennifer Henderson reports that planning for replacing the Victoria General is bogged down and “off to a slow and lethargic start.” Click here to read “Planning for a new Victoria General Hospital stumbles along.” This article is behind the Examiner’s pay […]
Planning for replacing the Victoria General hospital stumbles along
The biggest healthcare infrastructure project in the province is off to a slow and lethargic start.
They’re known as “The Floods.” In September and December of 2015, water from leaks in the aged plumbing of the Victoria General site of the QE2 Health Sciences Centre poured into the floors below. The floods disrupted hundreds of surgeries, closed an ICU, and forced 50 patients out of their rooms. Today, the pipes remain...
Halifax Explosion 2: Morning File, Thursday, September 8, 2016
校园新闻观点发现政府在哈尔bour Footnotes News 1. Teachers The government has reached a tentative contract agreement with the teachers union. No details have been published, and a new contract is contingent on a vote of approval by union members. The McNeil government would very much like to go into an election with […]
The wilderness park is saved: Morning File, Wednesday, September 7, 2016
I’m back in Halifax. Many thanks to the guest writers of Morning File over the past two weeks: Lewis Rendell, Katie Toth, Erica Butler, Selena Ross, and Russell Gragg. Russell and bookkeeper extraordinaire Iris also kept the shop running in my absence — no small feat — and for that I’m eternally grateful. I enjoyed […]
The downward trend in walking to school
Halifax’s kids head back to school this week, but sadly too many of them will be taking the least healthy option to get there. Walking and biking to school have been on the decline across North America for decades. Check out these numbers from the US, showing the drop since 1969. Note that while bussing […]