校园新闻的观点政府iced In the harbour Footnotes News 1. CTV pleads guilty CTV reports on its own guilty plea: This television station has pleaded guilty today to breaching a publication ban under the Youth Criminal Justice Act. On Aug. 24 of last year, we unintentionally broadcast video of two individuals who had […]
Monster lizard ravages east coast: Morning File, Tuesday, February 9, 2016
校园新闻的观点政府iced In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Weather Everything’s closed. WKRP is a period piece, one of the handful of mass media touchstones for my end-of-baby boom generation. We were too young to participate in the counter-culture of the 60s, yet the flowering of punk culture in the 80s was still ahead […]
What can Halifax learn from Vancouver’s modal shift?
On Wednesday, when Dale Bracewell, Vancouver’s manager of Active Transportation, comes to speak at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, he will have some impressive numbers to share. In May, Bracewell and his colleagues had the pleasure of reporting to their city council that the share of trips taken by sustainable modes in Vancouver had […]
Irving Shipbuilding wants people to work for free
Irving Shipbuilding Inc., a company that received $300 million from the Nova Scotia government and a $25-billion contract from Ottawa to build a fleet of warships, is offering unpaid work terms for community college students. An email sent to students of the Nova Scotia Community College, which was forwarded to the Halifax Examiner, says the...
Order your Chinese food: Morning File, Monday, February 8, 2016
校园新闻的观点政府iced In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Matricide “The Liberal government says the towering Mother Canada[™] monument will not be built in Cape Breton Highlands National Park, as proponents claim the controversial memorial has become a victim of politics,” reports the Canadian Press. That’s rich: “a victim of politics.” Mother Canada™ was […]
DEAD WRONG
A BOTCHED POLICE INVESTIGATION AND A PROBABLE WRONGFUL CONVICTION SHED LIGHT ON THE MURDERS OF DOZENS OF WOMEN IN NOVA SCOTIA.
Editor’s note: the DEAD WRONG homepage has links to previous articles, the cast of characters, extras, and commentary. Part 3: If Glen Assoun Didn’t Kill Brenda Way, Who Did? This article contains graphic accounts of violence and sexual violence that will disturb some readers. Three months after the jury convicted Glen Assoun of the murder of Brenda Way, […]
Spontaneous Human Construction: Morning File, Saturday, February 6, 2015
News Views Footnotes News 1. African Heritage Month It’s African Heritage Month, and in Nova Scotia the month is dedicated to the No. 2 Construction Battalion. Every year, there is a discussion around the purpose of Black History month. I’m not talking here about the “why is there no white history month” crowd here, but […]
Lights are on at Arcadia Entertainment
Economic impact report supports Film Tax Credit, says Screen Nova Scotia chair
The lights aren’t going out yet for John Wesley Chisholm’s business in Nova Scotia. Last month the president of the Halifax-based production company Arcadia Entertainment expressed public concern about his outfit’s inability to find work for this year using the province’s revamped incentive fund for film and television. Like many others in the creative industries,...
Harbour-hoppin’ to Yarmouth: Examineradio, episode #47
Today, we speak with interim NDP Leader Maureen MacDonald, Deputy Minister for the Department of Seniors, Simon d’Entremont, and Judy McPhee, the Executive Director of Pharmaceutical Services for Nova Scotia. The question for each of them: Is the McNeil government attempting to line the province’s coffers with money from seniors’ drug plans? Also, Liberal-connected billionaires […]
Peter Kelly’s mealymouthed nonsense: Morning File, Friday, February 5, 2016
校园新闻的观点政府iced In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Yarmouth ferry “The Portland government has asked a senator for help finding an old navy vessel to salvage the Yarmouth ferry ,” reports the CBC. Maybe the USS Arizona? Nope. “Multiple sources confirm that the company has set its sights on a high-speed ferry that once […]
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