新闻1。Irving says ship contract is not being downscaled Yesterday’s CP report that the federal government is scaling back the number of Arctic patrol vessels to be procured from Halifax’s Irving Shipyard is disputed by company officials. But CBC interviews both an industry insider and an academic who say that it’s very likely the contract will […]

新闻1。Abortion services denied on PEI “A proposal to provide abortion services on P.E.I., which a business case showed would have saved the province money, was halted by the health minister,” the CBC reports. Currently, PEI residents seeking abortion services must travel all the way to the QE2 in Halifax. The PEI government government pays […]

新闻1。Nova明星,pt。1周末雅茅斯Vanguard published a very good piece by reporter Carla Allen. Allen interviewed Jeanna Kernazitskas, a lab tech from North Carolina travelling as a passenger on the Nova Star, who was one of the first people on the scene when a crewmember collapsed with a medical emergency. The crewmember subsequently […]

新闻1。Stephen Harper is looking in your underwear drawer The Chronicle Herald’s Paul McLeod and Toronto Star’s Alex Boutilier have followed up on their explosive April report which revealed that the federal government had asked “telecoms and social media companies to turn over Canadians’ user data at ‘jaw-dropping’ rates, with nearly 1.2 million requests in […]

新闻1。Needles As early as October 2, the RCMP knew about needles being found in french fries at the Cavendish Farms plant, but the police didn’t notify the public about the incident until last week, after a needle was found in a potato in Labrador City. The police agency’s knee-jerk protection of corporate reputation over notifying […]

新闻1。Gas leak A Dexter Construction crew building a sidewalk along Joseph Zatzman Drive in Burnside hit a four-inch natural gas line yesterday morning, leading to the evacuation of over 40 businesses. There have been 21 such leaks since 2009. 2. Publication ban Is a botched Halifax police investigation being hidden behind a proposed publication […]

新闻1。$5 million more for Yarmouth Ferry Economic and Rural Development Minister Michel Samson announced yesterday that this past season’s sailing of the Nova Star will be subsidized at an additional $5 million, over and beyond the $21 million already spent to initiate the service, and that the ferry service will require further ongoing […]