校园新闻的观点政府注意到哈尔bour Footnotes News 1. Rain It rained a lot yesterday. Thankfully, CBC was here to document it. At 6:30am, the Bedford Highway was closed between Flamingo Drive and Bayview Drive due to flooding, so it looks like the morning commute will be a mess. Anjuli Patil is on it. […]

At a reader’s suggestion, I’m adding the following table of contents tool so you can jump and link to specific sections. Let me know if you like/dislike it and I’ll keep/ditch it. News Views Government On campus Noticed In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Wellington Street development So many people came to speak against the […]

News 1. Ashley MacLean-Kearse Ashley MacLean-Kearse was the 18-year-old woman injured in a triple shooting in Cole Harbour last week, leaving her paralyzed from the chest down: Now Ashley’s family is trying to keep her spirits up, while raising money to help pay for the expenses that come with her recovery. “She is going to have to […]

News 1. Outhouse catches fire That’s our lead story for the day. 2. Acadian students A survey of students finds they don’t sleep around so much. 3. Pedestrians hit by vehicles Saturday afternoon: At 9:15 p.m., officers responded to a hit and run involving a pedestrian which had apparently occurred in Halifax at 5 p.m. The pedestrian, a 21-year-old man, was crossing […]

News 1. St. Pat’s decision appealed to Supreme Court “A coalition of north-end Halifax community groups wants Canada’s highest court to rule on the disposition of the St. Patrick’s-Alexandra School site,” reports the Chronicle Herald. “In a news release Friday night, the North Central Community Council announced it has filed a leave to appeal application to […]

News 1. Convention Centre The Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal is the lead agency overseeing the Nova Centre project, which includes the convention centre. Back in 2012, TIR and Nova Centre developer Joe Ramia signed an agreement spelling out the terms of the project, including a “substantial completion” date of December 31, 2015. The […]

News 1. Peter MacKay says something stupid From the CBC: With the anniversary of the 1989 Montreal Massacre just days away, Justice Minister Peter MacKay set off a political firestorm on Tuesday afternoon when he told the House of Commons that “we may never understand … why these women were singled out for this horrific […]

News 1. Veterans Reports Paul McLeod: The federal government will argue Wednesday that its social covenant to care for injured veterans was just political speech and not meant to be taken seriously. Ottawa is trying to have a lawsuit by a group of disabled veterans tossed out. The British Columbia Supreme Court refused, but the […]