News 1. Community spread and vindictive behaviour Yesterday, at the daily briefing on COVID-19, we learned that there is a possible case of community spread of the disease, probably related to a St. Patrick’s Day event. An hour or so after the briefing, the Nova Scotia Health Authority issued a release with details: FOR IMMEDIATE […]
City councillors approve increased police budget despite ongoing racial profiling
您不必是Negrodamus，就可以预测哈利法克斯市议会将批准警察预算增加约一百万美元，但即使对于周三的预算委员会会议，即使对于愤世嫉俗的预算委员会会议也表明了一些令人惊讶的不恢复性深度。呼吁冻结警察预算，以应对哈利法克斯地区警察的[…]
议员冷冷静的建议,和其他r Halifax City Hall updates
Enhancing the tourist experience by putting parking on protected land
晨报，2019年12月24日，星期二
It’s Christmas Eve and I have no idea if anybody is reading or not. If you’re here, enjoy the Morning File. I usually work only minimally between Christmas and New Year’s, and I hope you get some time off too. News 1. Christmas in prison A prisoner we are calling JC offers a moving piece […]
城市仍然ridin体育场train
晨报，2019年10月23日，星期三
News 1. Stadium This item is written by Tim Bousquet. Halifax council yesterday rejected Sam Austin’s bid to immediately end a staff review of the Schooners’ stadium proposal. Had Austin been successful, the stadium proposal would have effectively been rejected. In October 2018, council passed a motion outlining how it would deal with the stadium […]
Gold fever is coming to Halifax
Mineral exploration companies have staked claims next to the Halifax and Dartmouth lakes that are the source of our drinking water
Cover photo: Touquoy open pit gold mine at Moose River. Photo courtesy Raymond Plourde On October 17 and 18, mining industry representatives and between five and 10 government officials will gather at the Alt Hotel at the Halifax Airport for the province’s first-ever “gold show.” The gold show is being organized by the Mining Association […]
“Neoliberal bullshit” basic income
晨报，2019年9月19日，星期四
新闻1.没有指控因痛苦的床痛苦而死克里斯西·丹宁顿（Chrissy Dunnington）死于2018年3月的压力酸痛（通常称为床痛）的并发症。她今年40岁。邓宁顿（Dunnington）曾住在山内克斯（Shannex）在克莱顿公园（Clayton Park）拥有的Parkstone Enhanced Care Home 18个月。[…]
An astonishing display of cowardice: city councillors are ignoring police misconduct in the Assoun case
当我们得知哈利法克斯警察故意采取行动以使一个无辜的人监禁时，负责对警察部门的平民监督的政客震惊地保持沉默。Meanwhile, unelected bureaucrats and lawyers at City Hall have attempted to keep the police misconduct hidden by a publication ban.根据他的律师，警察[…]
A lot of people in Halifax will be hungover at work on Thursday
Morning File, Tuesday, May 21, 2019
News 1. Gold “Here’s the deal,” writes Joan Baxter: On Wednesday, May 14, an Australian gold mining company called St. Barbara Limited, with one gold mine in Australia and a second one in Papua New Guinea, agreed to pay $722 million for Atlantic Gold Corporation, which operates one open pit gold mine in Nova Scotia, […]
Taxing Issues
Morning File, Wednesday, March 20, 2019
News 1. John Risley’s South African Adventure Out from behind the paywall: Tim’s epic piece on how Nova Scotia billionaire John Risley wound up in bed with an arms dealer suing the South African government over an apartheid-era contract. The short version: After his racing career, Portuguese Formula 1 driver Jorge Pinhol became an arms […]