新闻1。Saltwire让裁员109人永久的三个months ago, Saltwire, the publishing company that owns most of the newspapers in Atlantic Canada, temporarily laid off 40 percent of its workforce. Yesterday, the company made those layoffs permanent, Yvette d’Entremont reports. Sixty-one of those who have lost their jobs are in Nova Scotia. d’Entremont writes: […]
What will it take to restart film and TV production?
Morning File, Thursday, June 18, 2020
新闻1。New class-action lawsuit proposed against RCMP and attorneys general of Canada, NS Families of those killed on April 18 and 19 in Nova Scotia are suing the RCMP, along with the attorneys general of Canada and Nova Scotia, for failings related to the mass murders. The suit is being brought by Patterson Law […]
We need to keep talking about racism
Morning File, Tuesday, June 16, 2020
新闻1。Board of police commissioners’ meeting cancelled and other tales of non-transparency and lack of accountability El Jones writes about the cancellation of today’s Board of Police Commissioners meeting, ostensibly because — three months into the pandemic — they can’t figure out how to use Microsoft Teams. Jones writes: As the movement to defund […]
Who thinks Cornwallis would still be standing?
Morning File, Wednesday, June 10, 2020
新闻1。When it comes to regulating police use of force, are council’s hands really tied? We’re leading this morning not with a straight news story, but an important commentary from Harry Critchley of the East Coast Prison Justice Society, and the Elizabeth Fry Society of Mainland Nova Scotia. Critchley recaps some key background on police […]
A strange kind of normal: getting tested for COVID-19
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. “Tilt your head back,” the nurse says. Her name is Belinda. She is warm, friendly, and reassuring — and she is about to stick a swab that looks like an enormous flexible Q-tip far up my nose. “If you need to cough,” Belinda says, “turn […]
Enough with the cop-speak, and other policing stories
Morning File, Friday, June 5, 2020
新闻1。Has the RCMP’s move away from community policing created an information gap? Colchester County councillor Mike Gregory used to be an RCMP officer, working out of the force’s now closed building on Main Street in Tatamagouche. He understands that policing has changed over the years, but he wonders if the force’s move away […]
For some people, wearing a mask is “a unique kind of claustrophobia”
Is it discrimination to refuse entry to people who won't wear a mask for medical reasons?
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. When Vel Oakes goes out, she doesn’t wear a mask. She said she’s gotten “some odd looks” if she’s standing in line waiting to get into a store — and she worries that as mask-wearing becomes more normalized, that’s going to get worse. Oakes described […]
Racism, cops, media, and performative bullshit
Morning File, Monday, June 1, 2020
新闻1。Sure, budget surpluses are great, but have you ever experienced investments in long-term care? Stephen Kimber’s column this week points out one of the many obvious but under-discussed aspects of how COVID-19 has caused so much death and suffering for people in long-term care homes: that the state of LTCs is the direct […]
Now comes the Poodemic
Provincial parks and beaches are open, but washroom amenities aren't. And that's a problem.
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Paula Gardner was ready to hit the beach. On May 17, two days after the provincial government announced beaches and provincial parks were open for day use — as long as you kept your distance, mind you — Gardner and her partner took an early-morning […]
This little vaccine did not go to market: how private sector “innovators” can slow down life-saving treatments
Morning File, Tuesday, May 26, 2020
新闻1。Ferries! Electric buses! Halifax Transit goes bold with new plan Zane Woodford reports on what he calls Halifax Transit’s “uncharacteristically bold” plan to transform the transit system over the next 10 years. The plan, which goes to regional council this week, proposes fast ferries, electric buses, and a bus rapid-transit system that would […]
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