Tomorrow a Harrietsfield woman will become the first citizen in Nova Scotia to lay charges or undertake a “private prosecution” under the Environment Act against two individuals and two numbered companies. Both companies are no longer active, but one of them was in the stable of the Municipal Group, which also owns Dexter Construction. The private prosecution...
Archives for April 2017
Environmental Bill of Rights proposed for Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia needs nothing short of an Environmental Bill of Rights if it wants to ensure its citizens can drink clean water, breathe clean air, and hold their governments accountable to make polluters pay. That’s the position of a coalition of Nova Scotia environmental groups which celebrated Earth Day by unveiling an Environmental Bill of...
Ghostly memories of the Chronicle Herald: Morning File, Monday, April 24, 2017
新闻1. Environmental Bill of Rights “Nova Scotia needs nothing short of an Environmental Bill of Rights if it wants to ensure its citizens can drink clean water, breathe clean air, and hold their governments accountable to make polluters pay,” reports Jennifer Henderson for the Examiner: That’s the position of a coalition of Nova Scotia environmental groups […]
Lyle Howe and the bar society’s Plan B
If the panel hearing the professional misconduct charges against Howe decides he is guilty of any, some, or all of the original seven charges against him, he could be disbarred. If, on the other hand, the panel decides he isn’t guilty of all — or most — of those charges... well, what then?
If you fear you might not succeed on your first try, you should have a Plan B already neatly tucked in your back pocket. In advance. Just in case. That would seem to be the way the Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society is now approaching “IN THE MATTER OF the Legal Profession Act and the Nova...
If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the precipitate: Morning File, Saturday, April 22, 2017
新闻1. Thoughts on the March for Science On Friday, activists launched an Environmental Bill of Rights. As Robert Devet reports in the Nova Scotia Advocate: Representatives of several Black, Mi’kmaq and other communities spoke to exactly that lack of consultation and powerlessness that they encountered in the past, and are still experiencing on a daily basis. […]
Civil Rights and Social Justice: The Lynn Jones interview: Examineradio, episode #108
This week we chat with noted historian and labour activist Lynn Jones, who recently donated an incredibly thorough archive of material focusing on African Nova Scotian history to Saint Mary’s University. Also, we dig into the Liberal government’s ongoing spending spree across the province as the likelihood of an election looms, and more damning criticism is aimed […]
The Spoon in the Coffee Cup Conspiracy: Morning File, Friday, April 21, 2017
新闻1. Community Outpatient Centre “The province’s purchase of 15 acres in the Bayers Lake Business Park to build a new Community Outpatient Centre was supposed to be a good news announcement for the McNeil government,” reports Jennifer Henderson for the Examiner: [Premier Stephen] McNeil was quick to point out that the Centre’s Bayers Lake location — behind Home […]
Community Outpatient Centre Announced
The province’s purchase of 15 acres in the Bayers Lake Business Park to build a new Community Outpatient Centre was supposed to be a good news announcement for the McNeil government today. Certainly for those interested in seeing a replacement for services housed in the leaky and decrepit Victoria General Hospital — where you can’t drink the […]
Why the long face? Morning File, Thursday, April 20, 2017
新闻1. Pre-election spending spree Jennifer Henderson has updated her ongoing scorecard of pre-election spending by the McNeil government, and I created the following chart so you can follow along: I’ll continually update the chart as more announcements are made. 2. Butterfield Bank, Stephen Lund, and… Sears? On the above chart, you’ll note that on Tuesday Nova […]
Stephen McNeil’s pre-election spending spree continues
詹妮弗·亨德森（Jennifer Henderson）已更新了麦克尼尔政府正在进行的选举前支出记分卡。我将在明天的早晨档案中有关Butterfield银行宣布的更多话要说。
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