News Views Government On campus Noticed In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Bridge shuttle bus Halifax Transit has published its twice-annual tweak of bus schedules. The biggest change is a huge one: In anticipation of impending evening Macdonald Bridge closures during reconstruction, as of today, after 6:30pm Sundays through Thursdays, all the buses that normally cross the […]

News Views Government On campus Noticed In the harbour Footnotes News 1. More on alleged mall shooting plotters Maggie Gagnon, a childhood friend of James Gamble, the man who was reportedly connected to the thwarted mall shooting plot and who was found dead in his Timberlea home, tells the CBC that Gamble and Randall Shepherd, the […]

News Views Government On campus Noticed In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Transit plan Halifax Transit has released its draft plan for reworking bus routes, The plan is a modest improvement on the existing routing system, but it is a hesitant, conservative step. Everything about it is unimaginative, from the name — the consultants were paid […]

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News Views Government On campus Noticed In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Old men to stumble into Moncton Moncton has out-world-classed Halifax by paying a secret amount of money to have AC/DC perform at Magnetic Hill this summer (“summer” means “September” in New Brunswick). CBC TV in Fredericton wanted to talk to me about concerts and […]