It’s Monday. So it must be time for the latest zig in the zig-zaggy, twisty-turny, tortured tale of Stephen McNeil and the Nova Scotia Teachers Union. On Friday afternoon, the union announced its 9,300 members would resume their work-to-rule job action today because — in the words of union president Liette Doucet — “we don’t...
Introducing: Court Watch
Editor’s note: with declining numbers of reporters, there’s been a noticeable drop in court reporting. The Halifax Examiner can’t replace all the good work that was done in the past, but we’ve asked law student Christina Macdonald to keep an eye on the courthouses and file a weekly brief with what she finds notable or interesting....
Newer accessible buses considered unsafe by riders
By the end of March, Halifax buses will be 100 per cent of the accessible low floor (ALF) variety. That’s an important step forward in the slow march towards equal access for those of us with mobility challenges. Put that milestone next to the recent beta-testing of a new stop announcement system, and Halifax Transit appears...
The first column I never wrote for the Chronicle Herald
A former freelance contributor to the Chronicle Herald, I had two articles poised for publication when unionized employees went on strike last January, a year ago today. I immediately withdrew my work. The first piece — on the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster — appeared on this site. An article about my dental adventures was featured […]
What’s an un-built McMansion really worth?
Is $119 million for an undeveloped chunk of un-serviced land in the middle of an area already designated to become a public wilderness park really fair market value?
So… $119 million. That’s how much the Annapolis Group says the city owes it for refusing to bow down to its dream to pave over parts of the Blue Mountain – Birch Cove Wilderness area for what critics have described as “McMansions and McCondos.” Last week, the company gave notice it will file a lawsuit...
Police street check data shows we need more journalists, more news organizations
There may be few surprises in what the CBC uncovered in the Halifax police data, but that doesn’t make gathering and reporting the information less relevant or important. And, for that, we need journalists...
On October 24, 2016, CBC Halifax journalist Phlis McGregor happened to hear an interview on As It Happens about a York University research study that analyzed two years of Ottawa police data. Between 2013 and 2015, the report said, police there pulled over nearly 82,000 drivers for mostly routine checks. The data showed Middle Eastern...
Boston just lowered speed limits; Halifax should too
HRM's new transportation plan should be starting the conversation on speed limits.
Another major city has lowered urban speed limits in an effort to make its streets safer. As of Monday, Boston’s default speed limit dropped from 30 miles per hour to 25, about the same as going from 50 km/h down to 40. The move is part of Boston Mayor Martin Walsh’s Vision Zero commitment. Vision Zero...
CEO Compensation: Oops, you’ve been lapped again… and again
While the CCPA report card offers a clever way of visualizing the issue of income inequality, it does much more than that. It also undresses the main arguments of those emperor’s-clothes apologists for astronomical CEO salaries.
You’ve been lapped. While you were tossing out the tree and packing up the last of the Christmas ornaments for next year, that whirring whoosh of wind you heard was one more of Canada’s highest paid CEOs zipping past you, Flash-like, on the cash fast-track through 2017. By 11:47 a.m. on January 3, the first...
Streets are for everyone
The old car-centric focus of our streets is slowly making way to a new view that considers pedestrians.
When the intersection just to the west of the Hydrostone Market block came up on the road resurfacing schedule a couple years ago, instead of just the typical “shave and pave” from the city, the absurdly wide crossing got an upgrade of a different sort. Thanks to a backlog of complaints on file, the city...
Who is Joseph Boyden and does that answer matter?
“A small part of me is indigenous, but it is a huge part of who I am.” — Joseph Boyden
“A small part of me is indigenous, but it is a huge part of who I am.” — Joseph Boyden. How small? How about not at all? If that is true, what does it say about Joseph Boyden… author of a prize-winning trilogy of native-themed novels (Three Day Road, 2006 Writers Trust Nonfiction Prize; Through Black Spruce,...
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