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Let’s create a job for our friend Marilla: Morning File, Monday, July 25, 2016

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News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. CBC’s “explainer” on North Preston Upset with a CBC “explainer” about the community of North Preston, eight protestors descended upon CBC’s Halifax offices Friday and demanded a retraction. I was there, and wrote this article about it. Besides the clear misrepresentation of North […]

Code Words: Morning File, Saturday, July 23, 2016

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Conversation with Walter Borden Black Lives Matter’s intervention into the Toronto Pride parade raised issues of exclusion of Black people from the mainstream Pride movement. Much of the reporting around the action treated Blackness and gayness as separate identities, and the queer Black women activists were treated as though they were intruders into a parade […]

Protestors demand CBC retract “explainer” on North Preston

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Upset with the a CBC “explainer” about the community of North Preston, eight protestors descended upon CBC’s Halifax offices and demanded a retraction. Last week, after the bodies of five-year-old Taliyah Marsman and her mother, Sara Baillie, were found in two locations near Calgary, former Nova Scotia resident Edward Downey was charged with two counts of first degree […]

Rainbow refugees and Halifax Pride: Examineradio, episode #71

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Kevin Kindred is a local human rights lawyer and spokesperson for the Rainbow Refugee Association of Nova Scotia. He speaks about the push to find LGBTQ+ refugees safe harbour in Halifax and beyond and also the drive to encourage the Trudeau government to make this resettlement pilot program a permanent part of Canada’s foreign policy. […]

Twinning study looks at how we can pay, not whether we should

For a fraction of twinning costs, we could establish affordable long distance bus and rail options for Nova Scotians

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The province has released the first phase of their privately contracted feasibility study into the further twinning of highways in Nova Scotia. The gist: twinning is enormously expensive, and way out of our financial reach unless we change the way we fund roads, probably by introducing more tolls. Just have a look at this infographic […]

The fight over the wilderness park is all about money: Morning File, Wednesday, July 20, 2016

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News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Blue Mountain – Birch Cove Lakes wilderness park It’s hard to understand what councillor Reg Rankin is up to. You’ll recall that Justice Heather Robertson was hired as a “facilitator” for the city and four development companies that own property within the boundaries of […]

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