News
1. Road death
“A woman is dead after a crash involving a fire truck on icy roads in Timberlea, N.S., Thursday night,”reports Cassie Williams for the CBC:
RCMP say the crash happened around 9 p.m.
一名消防官员告诉加拿大广播公司的保罗·帕尔梅特（Paul Palmeter），消防车正上另一个事故电话，昨晚有很多电话。
The dead woman was not immediately identified. She was described in the article as “young.”
2.是巴拉（Baaack）…..
Mother Canada™
On Fridays, the Examiner publishes an extensive list of new business and society filings. As an example, here’s one entry from this week:
Sydney Mines Tourism Development Society
Sydney Mines
Chair: Cyril E. Aker
It’s baaack!!!!! Aker, who is the harbourmaster for the Port of Sydney, wants to place the Mother Canada™ statue atCranberry Headin Sydney Mines.
本周，我编制了27个列表。该清单并不详尽 - 有很多控股公司，因此对大多数读者没有任何兴趣 - 而是包含我发现最有趣的文件。
单击此处阅读“ D.O.P.E.T恤和持怀疑态度的狗：新公司与社会文件，2016年12月23日。”该列表是审查员付费墙的背后，因此仅适用于付费订户。Click here to purchase a subscription。
3.可以多糟糕他编年史rald get?
Yesterday, a reader told me (to my great surprise) that I had been quoted in the Chronicle Herald.
The article, which was written by an unnamed scab, concerned the tender that the province issued for a new computer system for the Registry of Joint Stock Companies.
我在星期三写了关于招标的文章。无名的sc ab将我写的一些内容提升为他们的文章的注释：
Commenting on the tender, Halifax blogger Tim Bousquet said he accessed the registry via his computer “pretty much every day.” Bousquet said while registry employees were “. . . beyond patient . . . the computer systems are horrible.”
There are a few things wrong with this. First, I think the scab implies that they interviewed me directly. For the record: no reporter at the Chronicle Herald contacted me, probably because they knew I wouldn’t speak with a scab reporter.
Which leads to the second issue, which is a total neglect of accepted journalistic practice. Journalism students are taught how to reference a quote: you give the context — you spoke with the quoted person directly, or over the phone or via email; the quote came from a press release, or it was found in written material. If the latter, you give attribution, by saying exactly what publication the quote comes from.
In this case, the scab should have directly named the Halifax Examiner. It’s common practice on the internet, although not required, to additionally provide a link to the original source. The scab did neither.
This has become the routine at the Chronicle Herald: they lift quotes without giving attribution, implying that their own reporters hunted down the quote, which often is not the case.
Thirdly, I’m not going to get worked up about this, but I think the word “blogger” here is used as an insult. There are plenty of bloggers doing fine and important work, and I do an awful lot of opining that can be called blogging. But that’s by no means all of what I do. I am a reporter, and do real reporting. I’d note, for instance, that I beat the scab to the Registry story.
这就提出了有关《纪事先驱报》中最近的另一篇文章的相关问题。
上周,Facebook的不良女人了complain of her treatment by Halifax police. The woman said she had mental health issues, and the police confused those issues with intoxication. She was jailed for the night in a holding cell in the police station. The woman accused the police of mistreating her while she was in custody, and posted photos of injuries she said she sustained while in custody. By the time of the posting, she had not filed a formal complaint with police. It’s not clear if she has filed a complaint since then.
A Chronicle Herald scab turned the woman’s Facebook post into a story, but failed to speak with the woman directly, or even to contact police about it. If this was just a one-off story about something not-so-important, this wouldn’t be an issue, but the article was relating possible criminal activity on the part of police. It absolutely required a stepped-up level of reporting — the reporter should have at least attempted to contact both parties.
After the story came out, the police department issueda statement about the incident。The statement did not name the woman, but said she had a “mental health issue.”
At Monday’s police commission meeting, commissioner Jeff Mitchell asked if the police statement had inappropriately disclosed personal information — a mental health issue — of someone who after all had not filed a formal complaint. Mitchell was told he’d get an answer at the next meeting.
I’m still trying to get a handle on the ethical issues involved in this story. With social media, anyone can make all sorts of claims, true and otherwise. I have no opinion about the veracity of the woman’s claims, but the fact that she herself said she had mental health issues would cause me to proceed with extreme caution. That doesn’t mean her story should be discounted, but most definitely, the reporter should have contacted her and the police for the article. On the police side, sure, the cops are accused of all sorts of things, true and otherwise, and the natural inclination is to respond to those accusations… but the police should develop a policy about when and how to respond. I don’t know if that means the department should only respond when a formal complaint has been filed. But when someone’s mental health is an issue, they too should respond with extreme caution.
4.叙利亚裁缝
Anna Shoub and Rezan Iso. Photo: Brittany Wentzell
“When Rezan Iso was living in Damascus, he ran a tailoring shop with five employees, and in his spare time designed women’s clothes, mostly for parties and formal occasions,”reports Brittany Wentzell for LighthouseNOW:
Now, he’s in a different country with a language he’s still learning, but is already restarting his career.
丈夫和父亲于9月与家人一起到达Mahone Bay，最近与Lunenburg的Hat Junkie的Anna Shoub一起工作。
[…]
But as Iso started taking some of his work home, he realized he couldn’t keep up with his small domestic sewing machine. So Shoub went looking for two industrial sewing machines — one for him to use at the Hat Junkie and one he could use to make his own clothing and designs again.
她向社区发出了电话，并开始了一项Go Fund Me运动。在24小时内，她遇到了1,500美元的目标，其中一台机器由Mahone Bay的Suttles和Seawinds的所有者捐赠。
Shoub说：“还剩下一点钱，这样他就可以得到一张切割桌或他需要的任何东西来开始自己的生意。”
Iso says he’s shocked by the amount of help he and his family have received in Canada.
“No one helps,” he said of living in Turkey and Syria. His experiences in Canada mark the first time people have truly helped him and his family, he said.
5. Hakodate
照片：Masao Oikawa
The Japanese city of Hakodate, which did not at all help after the Halifax Explosion, gets a Christmas tree delivered by the City of Halifax every year,reports Katy Parsons for the CBC:
Every year for about two decades, a giant Christmas tree has traveled from Halifax to Hakodate.
The holiday tradition is little-known here but highly celebrated in the city 10,000 kilometres away.
[…]
哈利法克斯为这棵树付款（通常费用约为3500美元），并乘卡车去了蒙特利尔。哈科特市（Hakodate）城市从魁北克（魁北克）到日本（Japan）的旅程拾起了标签。
As for why the annual tradition is not better known to Nova Scotians, [urban forester John] Simmons said Halifax could probably do a better job of tooting its own horn.
6.圣诞休战
Metro today publishes a “happy edition,” which国家编辑Cathrin Bradbury解释说包含“只有积极的新闻故事”。
一个故事concerns historian Thomas Weber’s efforts to document the “Christmas truces” of World War 1, when the soldiers on either side of the front would throw down their weapons and meet each other halfway across no man’s land to “exchange gifts, sing carols, even play soccer with their erstwhile enemies.”
Weber has found that most of this history has been censored:
“If you want to make sure that the men of your country are willing to fight and risk their lives … you would want to make sure that you present the other side as a worthwhile and serious enemy to fight.”
韦伯说，军事当局试图保存“我们与他们”的叙述，并谴责并掩盖了圣诞节的教育，但他们无法审查每个字母的回家。
Views
1. Hygge
Photo: Stephen Archibald
“您是否知道丹麦的Hygge概念（发音为'Hooga'或'Hoo-guh’）？”asks Stephen Archibald:
It is often translated as “cosy” but then quickly you are told that that is not really accurate. It has to do with the sense of well being you have in a comfortable setting, perhaps sharing a beverage with friends or wearing wool socks and wrapped in a blanket on a winter evening surrounded by candles. Hygge can be experienced year round but the warm glow of Christmas makes this the signature season.
[…]
On our fall visit to Copenhagen we asked people about hygge but it seemed to be something they understood and lived and did not think too much about. Tasteful surroundings and a populace who are among the happiest in the world handles a lot of it. In this photo the friend we were staying with in Copenhagen had set the table for lunch with friends. The food was as tasty as the setting.
2. Dillon Garland
狄龙·加兰（Dillon Garland）
Paul Andrew Kimball has published他的观点的第二版902播客, in which he interviews director Dillon Garland about the state of independent filmmaking in Nova Scotia, as well as:
[花环]第一部长片Afraid to Speak, which debuted this past fall at the Parrsboro Film Festival after being snubbed by the Atlantic Film Festival, which we discuss. Along the way, Dillon talks about his upbringing in the Shelburne region, what inspired him to get into filmmaking in the first place, and where he wants to go from here. We also get into an in-depth conversation about what it’s like working with actors, and how trust between actors and a director is fundamental to being a successful filmmaker. Finally, we manage to find time to chat about pro wrestling, telepathic space otters, and our experiences at the old Shelburne Sound Stage.
3.当天的胡思乱想的信
A super container terminal port for Sydney? At what cost? My questions for the wise who are proposing this fiction are as follows:
1.到达集装箱端子时，铁路将在哪种形状中？火车现在从轨道上掉下来，轨道是古老的，生锈的和腐烂的，领带和床上用品正忽视，整行需要更换。谁为此付出代价？
2. One has to wonder where the money used to pay consultants, hold meetings and wine and dine is coming from. Is it taxpayers money?
3.What did the Chinese consortium that visited earlier this year walk away with. These business people are not stupid and they never spend their own money. Now we have a new group. Or do we?
4. What are these councillors up to? Some new and old voted on something as large as this without giving it more consideration.
我不认为悉尼港从未有集装箱码头港口。为什么？只需看看霍克斯伯里港（Port Hawkesbury），那里有一个深港，是无冰的，而且是一条相当不错的铁路。他们已经尝试了15年，以便在梅尔福德（Melford）获得一个没有运气的集装箱码头。
那么我们在dolla CBRM会浪费rs before we put the money to good use instead of in a pipe dream?
Don Dickson, Sydney
政府
No public meetings.
在校园
The universities are deserted.
In the harbour
Friday
下午4点：东京快车, container ship, arrives at Fairview Cove from New York
上午05时：Atlantic Sea，RO-RO容器，到达英国利物浦的Fairview Cove
上午5:30：大西洋航行, ro-ro container, sails from Fairview Cove for Liverpool, England
7am:Oceanex Sanderling, moves from Pier 30 to Pier 41
10am:Agios Minas, container ship, arrives at Fairview Cove from Cagliari, Italy
Noon:Nolhanava, ro-ro cargo, sails from Pier 36 for Saint-Pierre
1pm:Atlantic Sea, ro-ro container, sails from Fairview Cove for New York
马士克彭布罗克。Photo: Halifax Examiner
3:30pm:马士克彭布罗克, container ship, arrives at Fairview Cove from Montreal
6pm:Oceanex Sanderling, ro-ro container, sails from Pier 41 for St. John’s
晚上9点：东京快车, container ship, arrives at Fairview Cove from New York
10pm:NYK Rumina，集装箱船，到达来自德国布雷默黑文的Fairview Cove
11pm:CMA CGM Almaviva，集装箱船，到达马来西亚克兰港的哈尔蒂
11:30pm:马士克彭布罗克，集装箱船，从Fairview Cove航行到海
Footnotes
Examineradio will be published later today — the entire episode is devoted to the living wage issue.
Tomorrow, El Jones has a story about forgiveness.
我将在星期二返回早晨文件。
Happy Christmas or whatever else you do.
Regarding the death in Timberlea, there have been numerous accidents over the last few days in the area of the 103, NW Arm Drive, and Old Sambro Road. All of these areas appear to be salted by one provincial depot located near Prospect Road. Last night they appeared to be dispatched later than most of the other trucks in the province (as indicated on the NS plow locator website). Something seems to be going on there that needs to be investigated – whether it is cutbacks, lack of resources or sheer incompetence. It could use an investigative journalist.
I don’t understand how even scab editors can permit such unethical and ridiculous stories. I wouldn’t expect that low level of reporting and editing from the smallest of small town papers. It keeps getting worse. Perhaps it is an encouraging sign that competent reporters and editors don’t want to scab and thus they can’t find any willing to work there even in the current job market? But I’m assuming that eventually this is going to result in libel lawsuits, and perhaps, in the right context, criminal charges. Godspeed the day.
And yeah, you’re more than a “blogger”, a rather quaint 2005-era concept anyway although there are still a few of substance around. You are a very good reporter and editor and publisher whose newspaper happens to be digital. (Although I know Halifax and like it and spend time there, one of the main reasons I subscribe is to learn from your journalistic approach and method.)
Just catching up on my reading and here I am. Thanks so much for sharing the story.