I was curious. I thought I remembered seeing a brief news report last month about a man who’d died in an industrial accident at Michelin’s Waterville plant. The details I recalled were sketchy to non-existent, so I wanted to know what had been learned in the more than a month since the incident and get...
CCPA-NS: government must address impact of province’s low-wage economy
The impacts of the province’s low-wage economy are far-reaching and taking action to change it will promote diversity and benefit people, the economy, and the environment. That’s one of the key messages from a written submission to the Standing Committee on Public Accounts, publicly released Wednesday by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Nova Scotia (CCPA-NS). […]
Ditching the “culture of blame”
Morning File, Wednesday, June 8, 2022
News 1. The Routes of Enslaved Peoples Project “An international scientific committee from the United Nations will meet in Halifax this week to discuss the world’s largest forced migration in history: the African slave trade,” reports Matthew Byard. The Routes of Enslaved Peoples Project, formerly known as The Slave Route Project, was founded in 1994 as […]
Union leader pleads for better wages for paramedics
新斯科舍省的医护人员是挣扎在一个overwhelmed system, recruitment and retention challenges are significant, and without better wages the problem will get worse. That’s the message the union representing the province’s paramedics delivered Tuesday to the Standing Committee on Health where the discussion focused on government initiatives to address ambulance availability and offload delays. […]
Spike in COVID cases prompts province to extend paid sick leave program
The Houston government is “listening” and will provide four paid days sick pay to workers, businesses, and self-employed people who need to stay home from work between April 1 and May 7, according to a news release on Monday. The program was scheduled to end on March 31. The government decision was announced after NDP […]
No one wants to work for terrible bosses who pay crap wages while exploiting their talent these days
Morning File, Thursday, March 17, 2022
News 1. Green Fund This item is written by Jennifer Henderson. Three years ago Nova Scotia rejected imposing a carbon tax on gasoline and home heating fuel and chose a cap-and-trade program to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by the same amount. Companies such as Nova Scotia Power, Irving Oil, Wilson Fuels, and Lafarge Canada […]
People are bigger assholes than ever
Morning File, Tuesday, March 8, 2022
News 1. Affordable housing in New Glasgow A former inn in New Glasgow will be turned into 36 affordable housing units. On Tuesday, Zane Woodford spoke with Dianne Kelderman, president and CEO of Nova Scotia Co-operative Council, which announced on Monday that it bought the Tara Inn on East River Road in New Glasgow. Kelderman […]
Quitting the hospitality business: You mean it wasn’t the CERB after all?
Morning File, Tuesday, January 25, 2022
News 1. Five more Nova Scotians have died of COVID-19; mostly meaningless new case numbers released The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Please help us continue this coverage by subscribing. The province reported five more deaths from COVID-19 yesterday, Tim Bousquet writes in his daily pandemic roundup: The deceased are: • a […]
Halifax council approves living wage requirement for contractors
In one of the last votes of its term, Halifax regional council approved a living wage requirement for most contracted workers. As the Halifax Examiner reported earlier this month, municipal staff proposed the policy to council as part of a new code of conduct for suppliers: It’s a response to council’s lukewarm reception of the social procurement policy passed […]
Tales of toxic workplaces
Morning File, Wednesday, September 30, 2020
News 1. The biomass power shuffle Jennifer Henderson learns that not one sawmill in Nova Scotia has shut down since Northern Pulp closed in January. But large biomass boilers in the province are “running flat-out” to provide replacement markets for bark, woodchips, and sawmill waste. Henderson went to Tuesday’s meeting of the legislature’s standing committee […]