新闻1。Review of Holly Bartlett death investigation released Holly Bartlett is the 31-year-old woman who was found severely injured under the MacKay Bridge on the morning of March 27, 2010. She died two days later in hospital. The circumstances around Bartlett’s death are perplexing, and Bartlett’s friends and family have called into question the Halifax […]
Review of investigation into Holly Bartlett’s death criticizes Halifax police actions
A review of the Halifax police investigation into the death of Holly Bartlett finds that “based on the evidence presented to the reviewers,” her death was accidental. The report, however, goes on to fault the police department’s investigation, noting that the investigating officers jumped to a conclusion early on, before collecting all the evidence, and then kept...
Money ferry edition: Morning File, Friday, July 25, 2014
新闻1。Province subsidizes transportation In the past couple of days, the province has made two announcements concerning transportation spending: the government will give $2.1 million towards the operation of the Yarmouth ferry, and it will give $2 million to Halifax Transit dedicated to capital expenditures—buying new buses, installing smart meters, building new terminals, etc. One of the […]
Mainland Common may be solution to Africville dog park kerfuffle
Tensions were high at the beginning of last night’s public consultation over how to replace the Africville dog park, but as the meeting progressed dog owners and city staff seemed to zero in on a possible solution agreeable to all: A new, large and fenced dog park at the Mainland Common. To back up, former residents...
Raucous crowd greets fracking review panel
by Chris Benjamin David Wheeler’s fracking roadshow reached Halifax last night and received its most boisterous heckling yet. Wheeler, president of Cape Breton University and sustainable business guru (he convinced the province to burn trees for energy), chairs an “independent review panel” investigating the potential for fracking in Nova Scotia. Last night’s meeting was the...
The day the world’s toilets stop working: Morning File, Thursday, July 24, 2014
新闻1。水力压裂繁荣的哈利法克斯Examiner assigned a reporter to cover last night’s meeting of the fracking review panel. We’ll publish a recap this morning; check back on the home page. Early reports back are that the audience was not at all happy at the direction the panel is taking. 2. Africville […]
Developer fees and unwarranted secrecy: Halifax council recap, July 22, 2014 meeting
Tuesday’s council meeting was lengthy, going long into the evening. Most of the items were resolved as expected, and as I outlined Monday in the council preview. The exceptions and additions are below. Developer fees Council discussed the “Capital Cost Contributions”—CCCs for short, which are fees to be charged to developers—for about two hours. The...
Rewriting history: Morning File, Wednesday, July 23, 2014
新闻1。MacGillivray and Savage try to re-write Commonwealth Games bid history The truth matters. The truth about the past especially matters, as it provides lessons and guideposts moving forward. But in today’s Chronicle Herald, Fred MacGillivray, who presided over Halifax’s aborted attempt to win the 2014 Commonwealth Games bid, says that pulling out of […]
To serve you better: Morning File, Tuesday, July 22, 2014
新闻1。Loretta Saunders murder The preliminary hearing in the Loretta Saunders murder trial has begun, but there’s a publication ban on evidence presented at the trial, which leaves reporters in a difficult situation. There’s not much to actually report on, besides the sad reaction of Saunders’ family to the evidence presented. The trial is […]
Halifax council preview: July 22, 2014 meeting
Council last met on June 25, so there’s lots to do this week. The meeting starts at 10am Tuesday, and I’ll be live-blogging it on Twitter via @hfxExaminer. The highlights: Development fees for transit When I reported in California in the early 1990s, development fees were already a long-established fact of municipal government. In California’s case,...
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