News 1. The McNeil government’s deceitful, ham-fisted, and mean-spirited attack on teachers I almost felt sorry for cabinet minister Michel Samson yesterday. As with the rest of his government, events had overtaken him. He stood before a room full of reporters who were repeatedly calling him out on his contradictions and his uninformed spin. “You say […]
Student Power: student demonstrations shouldn’t be ignored, says historian
As Nova Scotia tries to negotiate a new collective contract with province’s teachers, it needs to win a PR battle painting its demands as reasonable and the teachers’ as unfair. But as these power games continue, the province will have to reckon with an increasingly vocal contingent: the students themselves. Hundreds of people, many of...
Lawyer: McNeil’s bid to force a contract on teachers sits on shaky legal ground
This Saturday, Nova Scotia Education Minister Karen Casey announced all schools in the province would be pre-emptively closed to students for their safety. The closures are a response to a planned work-to-rule action from teachers — in other words, the teachers had promised to start working to the letter of their contract starting on Monday. That...
Liberals pause in face of “public fury” over closed schools
The McNeil government is apparently trying to find an escape from the “public fury” over its decision to close the province’s schools to students. The school closure was announced Saturday by Education Minister Karen Casey. The government also called the legislature back into session at 10am today, and said it would table legislation that will force a […]
All teachers (and a couple of ships): Morning File, Monday, December 5, 2016
News 1. Schools closed If you’ve been in a cave or solitary confinement or on a three-day acid trip, you’ve missed that on Saturday the Liberal government ordered all provincial schools closed starting today. What happens now? On their respective Facebook pages, Graham Steele and Andrew Younger have been posting their informed knowledge of house […]
How the government chose to build two new schools in the “right” place in the right pre-election time
Perhaps they wrote the names of the two schools on sheets of paper and put them in a hat, picking them out one by one. “Oh, look, Karen, you won,” says the premier. “My turn! My turn!”
The very suggestion the Nova Scotia government would cherry-pick new school building projects from the bottom of the priority pile simply because said schools would be built in constituencies held by Education Minister Karen Casey and Premier Stephen McNeil, is — cue the harrumphs — “a ridiculous comment to make.” So says the minister herself....
Innovating our way to disaster: Morning File, Wednesday, October 19, 2016
校园新闻观点发现政府在哈尔bour Footnotes News 1. Nova Scotia’s film industry just won’t die After a disastrous season last year, filmmakers have seen an uptick in productions this year. But will the work keep coming? Jennifer Henderson surveys the local film scene and discovers that it’s a glass half-full/ half-empty […]
The Grafton Street Glory Hole and other obscenities: Morning File, Wednesday, October 5, 2016
校园新闻观点发现政府在哈尔bour Footnotes News 1. Convention centre opening delayed… again The Halifax Convention Centre will not open as scheduled on April 1. A new opening date has not yet been established, but Trade Centre Limited is rescheduling conventions booked through the end of June; seven national and international conventions […]