By Hilary Beaumont Halifax可以看到它的首次受保护的自行车道,如果一个新的试点项目获得理事会的批准。就像蒙特利尔和温哥华的那些,拟议的车道将与物理障碍的流量分开自行车。由Dalhousie大学发起,受保护的车道将沿着北侧和南侧跑......
没有问责范围:早上档案,2014年9月2日星期二
消息1. Northern Pulp Mill At the request of the Chronicle Herald, Environment Canada has released pollution monitoring station information for Nova Scotia, and for 2012, in terms of particulate matter, the air was cleaner in Pictou County than in downtown Halifax. 2. Grandparents The Liberals have changed the law such that grandparents automatically have standing […]
The coming lobster apocalypse: Morning File, Saturday, August 30, 2014
消息1. What the wild things say The famed gannets at Cape St. Mary’s in Newfoundland are abandoning their chicks, repeating an unprecedented abandonment in 2012. Gannets have been observed for centuries, and the one consistent observation is that “gannets never abandon their chicks,” biologist Bill Montevecchi tells the St. John’s Telegram: One parent stays with the […]
在写入毒品和强奸时,让我们负责
by Hilary Beaumont “Super scary stuff—heads up Haligonians,” one of my Facebook contacts typed last week as she shared a story about a drug that went missing from the QEII hospital. She wasn’t the only one to react fearfully to the story. On Twitter and Facebook people posted about the 16 vials of Midazolam, a...
带出你的死者:早上档案,2014年8月29日星期五
消息1. Slow down on fracking The final Report of the Nova Scotia Independent Review Panel on Hydraulic Fracturing was released yesterday, and it basically punts the issue down the road a few years. It’s a massive document, several hundred pages, and I haven’t had time to read it this morning, but the take-away is in […]
Hanging out with two jackasses: Morning File, Thursday, August 28, 2014
新闻1.在使用轮椅的学生中,Nova Scotia中至少有72所学校的学校都无法访问,报告CBC。2. IWK语言科学家的脑部映射正在做酷的工作,看看我们的大脑流程如何。全球朱莉娅黄应祝贺处理科学沉重的主题和报告[...]
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain: Morning File, Wednesday, August 27, 2014
新闻1.不关注窗帘后面的男人彼得麦凯说,他的前员工Peter Van Praagh被命名为哈利法克斯安全论坛的项目经理没有错。Van Praagh的就业是规定了9960万美元的合同,报告了编年史预示着。2.斯蒂芬麦克尼尔将向中国上去表示,新闻稿:虽然[...]
The Knights Who Say Nay: Morning File, Tuesday, August 26, 2014
消息1. Ship of Theseus The Bluenose 2 (or 3 or 4 or whatever) will either be ready next year or they’ll start over and replace each of the planks with new planks and the boat will become a metaphor in Philosophy 101 text books, says Stephen McNeil. 2. Bhutanese refugees The CBC has a report on […]
Disappearing crosswalks: the science of ignoring pedestrians
On January 24, 2011, there was a tragic accident at the corner of Coburg Road and Edwards Street. A 63-year-old woman walking across Coburg from north to south was hit by a vehicle, and killed. That day, police went out to measure the street, to determine if the unfortunate woman was within the “unmarked crosswalk” or not,...
隔夜感觉:2014年8月25日星期一的早晨档案
新闻1. Sipekne'Katik在Hammonds Plains开发本土乐队将在华莱士山开发54公顷。通过Kingswood,Voyageur Lakes和庞大的Pockwock路走廊,狼吞虎契麦克文斯的发展已经推推过50,000公顷的东西,但这种发展是伊尔克地区议员Matt [...]的第一个发展
