News 1. Assembly of First Nations continues Halifax Examiner coverage includes: Ghislain Picard named Interim National Chief AFN renews call for national inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women Tsilhqot’in ruling could set precedent in land disputes, AFN hears The last two articles are behind the Examiner’s pay wall. You can purchase a subscription here. 2. […]

News 1. North Park Street roundabout Construction started yesterday on the rebuild of the North Park/Cunard/Agricola Street intersection, and as expected, there’s lots of criticism—there’s not enough consideration for bicyclists and too many trees are being removed, say critics. Perhaps. But as they exist, this intersection and the North Park/Cogswell/Rainnie/Trollope/Ahern intersection, which will be rebuilt next year, are death […]

News 1. MV Miner The province is preparing to execute a $12 million plan to remove the MV Miner from Scatarie Island. The decommissioned cargo ship broke from its tow line and crashed into the island in 2011, and has been wedged on the rocks ever since. Supposedly we need to “clean up” the ship because Scatarie is a protected wilderness area, […]

News 1. Deep Panuke The Chronicle Herald’s Roger Taylor reports that, thanks to the crappy winter in New England, Encana made a lot of money from selling natural gas from its Deep Panuke wells on the Boston spot market. With warm weather here, prices are back to normal, but the company thinks it can repeat […]

News 1. Province asks RCMP to investigate the CRDA See Views, below. But also, news reports in the Chronicle Herald and CBC. 2. Who owns the dead whale? There was a bit of a bureaucratic battle over which level of government was responsible for removing a whale carcass washed up on the Canso Causeway. The province […]

News 1. Fountains donate $3 million to NSCAD The Fountain family have given $3 million to the college, with the funds directed to the Granville Mall campus. Margaret Fountain, who sits on the board of the college, and her husband David Fountain have been making a series of very large charitable donations in recent years. Once upon […]

News 1. Jazz Festival hit twice The Halifax Jazz Festival is having a rough time of it this year; the first two nights of the nine-day festival saw no-shows by two headline performers. On Friday night, the Eddie Palmieri Latin Jazz Septet cancelled “due to unforeseen circumstances.” Festival organizers apologized profusely to the folks lining up for […]

News 1. It’s going to rain today And CBC is on it. See here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. Imagine if those newsroom resources were put into, I dunno, maybe reporting that abortion is nearly illegal in New Brunswick? 2. Abortion is nearly illegal in […]