An insider’s view of a police standoff in Fairview was too tempting for many to resist last month, when a tattoo artist allegedly armed with a knife took to Facebook Live to broadcast his ramblings. According to a search warrant police got for 1 Ashdale Ave., Neal Ryan Conroy allegedly threatened two officers with a...
Ken Johnson wants to put 1,000 robots in the ocean
Johnson and other scientists want to know how climate change is affecting the oceans and their fisheries.
Before Ken Johnson was a chemical oceanographer deploying thousands of robots into seas around the globe, he was a commercial salmon fisherman in the Pacific Northwest, earning his way through university. “All through high school and college I made my living by killing Canadian salmon,” Johnson, now the senior scientist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium...
The development boom’s echo: filling in Halifax Harbour
In Halifax schools, children learn that the city has the second largest natural harbour in the world. It’s one of those motherhood statements that people repeat as a mantra when visitors come calling or businesses look at setting up shop here. So why are we filling it in? Since 2011, the Halifax Port Authority has...
Halifax developer under criminal investigation
Navid and Saeid Saberi accused of failing to report sales income and sales taxes on Hammonds Plains properties
A major Halifax developer is under investigation for allegedly “willfully evading” paying corporate income tax and “making false or deceptive statements” in one of his company’s HST returns, according to court documents. Navid Saberi, a company he heads called Glen Arbour Condominium Inc., and his brother Saeid Saberi, are being investigated by the Canada Revenue...
Captive whales may be coming to Nova Scotia
The Whale Sanctuary Project is looking at the Eastern Shore as a potential home for rescued aquarium whales
An organization planning to build a $15-million sanctuary for captive whales is scouting locations in Nova Scotia. The Whale Sanctuary Project has checked out a dozen sites between Lunenberg and Guysborough that could become a home for between five and eight orcas, belugas and other cold-water cetaceans that spent their lives in the concrete tanks...