News Views Government Noticed In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Scam “Is this some sort of scam?” I wondered yesterday in response to the announcement that Nova Star had found winter work plying the English Channel. Today, the Chronicle Herald’s Michael Gorman reports that: Thanet District Council, which covers Ramsgate, released a statement on Wednesday saying “there […]

News Views Government In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Snow and ice operations Halifax councillors are pissed, and rightly so. Yesterday, council spent nearly seven hours discussing the disastrous response to last winter’s snow and ice storms, with each councillor listing specific failures and general complaints about the management of winter operations. To their credit, […]

News Views Government In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Camille Strickland-Murphy “The obituary for an inmate who died last week at a Nova Scotia jail says the 22-year-old woman committed suicide,” reports the Canadian Press. “Camille Strickland-Murphy was found unresponsive in her cell at the Nova Institution for Women in Truro on July 28.” Strickland-Murphy was […]

News Views News 1. Mummy helps me with the news… I’m on “vacation.” Which means I am in Winnipeg with my mother. Conversation from today: Me: So I have to go do the news… Mummy: What news? Me: I write like a news thing on Saturdays. Mummy: But you’re not there. Me: I’m not making […]

News Views Government In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Dildo “Police posing with your dildo during a raid does not a Charter of Rights and Freedoms violation make,” reports the Chronicle Herald’s Jessica Flower: Michael David Hilchey and Jocelyn Leanne Judith Hilchey were arrested Feb. 7, 2014, and their home was raided by law enforcement […]

News Views Government In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Port Hawkesbury Paper The US Department of Commerce has issued a preliminary ruling that the Port Hawkesbury Paper mill is being subsidized, reported the CBC yesterday morning: The investigation sets the way to levy duties on supercalendered paper, glossy paper used for magazines and catalogues. The ruling says the Port Hawkesbury […]

News Views Government In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Basketball courts Twitterer @HalifaxChris alerted a bunch of us media folk about the ridiculous situation at the St. Joseph’s A. McKay School basketball courts, and the CBC’s Brett Ruskin took the issue and ran with it: Developers of a nearby condominium project have built a plywood wall to protect the […]

News Views Government Noticed In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Maritime nice “Joanne Bernard, the minister responsible for Community Services and Nova Scotia’s first openly gay MLA, says the hate speech is still routine, nearly two years after she was elected,” reports CTV: “I have had vile and filthy language spewed at me through the […]