Premier Stephen McNeil

Ukrainian corruption and the Canso spaceport

晨报，2019年11月12日，星期二

November 12, 2019By蒂姆·布斯奎特（Tim Bousquet）3 Comments

November subscription drive I was going to write a long thing this morning in support of our subscription drive, but got pulled away trying to make sense of the Ukrainian space industry. So I’ll keep it short. We need your money. Thanks. News 1. Waiting for Fitch “Bob Dylan didn’t need a weatherman to know […]

The Climate Emergency

第4部分：我们当前的经济无法解决危机；我们将如何处理？

November 8, 2019ByLinda Pannozzo3 Comments

Previously in this series: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. It’s not often that I root for the anti-hero in a book, but it seems that as I neared the end of Jeremy Lent’s latest book, The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning — perhaps the longest book I’ve ever read at […]

Stephen McNeil’s austerity philosophy: if only everyone were paid less, we’d all be rich

早上文件, Friday, October 25, 2019

October 25, 2019By蒂姆·布斯奎特（Tim Bousquet）5 Comments

News 1. Prisoners and the vote Reports El Jones: On Monday, Canadians voted in the federal election. Voting is a right for all Canadians, and this includes people who are incarcerated. Despite being able to vote, prisoners report that they experienced barriers to casting their ballot. Prisoners in the Atlantic Institution, a federal men’s maximum […]

Pictou Landing First Nation到Stephen McNeil：纪念《船港法案》，在海峡没有烟斗

2019年10月6日ByJoan Baxter1 Comment

The day-by-day countdown to the closing of Boat Harbour happens on a large painting erected in front of the Pictou Landing First Nation band council office. The painting depicts Boat Harbour as it was before it was dammed (and damned) in 1966, transformed from a healthy tidal estuary to a stinking lagoon for the toxic […]

理事会投票支持出租车上诉委员会报告

早上文件, Wednesday, September 25, 2019

2019年9月25日BySuzanne Rent5 Comments

News 1. Uranium “After yesterday’s meeting of the Standing Committee on Natural Resources and Economic Development, Nova Scotia’s Uranium Exploration and Mining Prohibition Act seems to be safe,” reports Joan Baxter. “At least for now.” Baxter recounts the testimony of not one, not two, but three different representatives of the Mining Association of Nova Scotia […]

托儿工作者转身与公交车投诉

早上文件, Friday, September 20, 2019

September 20, 2019BySuzanne Rent3 Comments

News 1. Blackface Writes El Jones: When the furor over Trudeau’s Blackface photos dies down, to be referred to as an “embarrassing incident” or “controversial,” Black people like Abdilahi Elmi will still be facing deportation. Muslim Canadians will still be on the no-fly list. White nationalist editorials will still be commissioned by major newspapers under […]

The company hired to build and maintain the city’s sucky website is going out of business

晨报，2019年9月9日，星期一

September 9, 2019By蒂姆·布斯奎特（Tim Bousquet）3 Comments

News 1. Weather There was weather over the weekend. So far as I know, no one in Nova Scotia was injured or killed due to the storm. Most people seemed to have taken the warnings seriously and simply hunkered down to wait it out. So: good news! But there were extensive power outages. Something like […]